29 weeks 5 days: back to hobart

We're heading off to Hobart again today in preparation for tomorrow's set of appointments. I'm not looking forward to spending a whole day hearing about what's wrong with our daughter. At least the scan will be partly positive because we'll get to see her in detail.

First up we have the nicu tour at the hospital. I've never been to a nicu and I hope its empty when we get there! I dont want to see really sick babies, that'll make me sad! But I do want to be prepared for when bub is in there after her surgery. I know i'll be more prepared to take it in tomorrow than when bub is coming out of the OR.

Straight after that we have our first meeting with the surgeon. Given that there's only the one guy in the whole state its not going to make much difference if we like him or not, but I hope he's nice and understands that i'm loaded up with a million questions. And that I wont sit back and agree with everything he says just because he's a doctor! I'm taking my list of questions, so hopefully by the end of the day we'll have answers to the important things like when the surgeries will be done and how many there will be.

After that we have to jump straight back in the car and race off to make it to our ultrasound appointment. I'm hoping that we can get a full face image this time. They must have taken the shot in the past, but its never been on our discs, and i'd like to see exactly what we're dealing with.

So from 10am through til about 2pm we will be flat out, and then its straight back in the car to come home!

I'm expecting some pretty crappy blood sugar readings over the next 2 days with all the crap you eat while you're travelling but whatever. My levels have been perfect since wednesday anyway, so a day or 2 isn't going to do any damage. Besides, even when they were elevated last week it still wasnt high enough to have been picked up a few months ago before they changed the ratios!

Today we are treating ourselves to some fun before the crap starts. We'll meet up with Bec and Ash for some lunch and mini golf, and then we're going on a dinner cruise around the harbour tonight. I figured we deserved a treat!