Today

Over the new years weekend we went to decorah and stayed with my parents. We went to Pauls for new years party. We had pizza and played a lot of 500.
Elena noticed that her legs were getting puffy and her wrists. We wanted to go back to rochester on saturday after the Iowa football game but there was a lot of freezing rain.
The Iowa game was awsome. We watched the first half and it was a close game like 14-13. Then Elena called up to Roch and talked with a midwife and they asked her to come in. But the roads were all ice but we could make it to the Decorah hospital. I set the VCR and off we went. We stayed at the hospital around 3 hours and they ran tests and didn't find anything major but wanted to get checked out at roch when we could get there. We went to my parents and I put in the second half of the game.
It was one of the greatest games I've ever seen. Back and forth the defenses bashed each other all over the field. Iowa has the worst running game in division I so that didn't help. Iowa got up by 12 by the fourth quarter but LSU came roaring back and took the lead with like 45 seconds to go.
Iowa get the kickoff around the 25 and drives to midfield. As time runs out Drew Tate threw a bomb to Warren Holloway a fifth year senior who had never scored a TD before. He caught it about the 15 and barreled his way into the endzone to take the hawks up by 5. Just awsome. Finish the year at 10-2. Co-big ten champs. Kirk Ferentz the coach is second to none.
Anywho, we stayed the night and found out that Olivia was running out of diapers. Uh-oh. So Dad and I run to wal-mart. We meet up with Bill Post there and talk a bit. He was named football coach of the year for getting second place last year losing to perennial champs Harlan.
We get the diapers and head home. We take the rout past the fish hatchery and as we climb that first gravel hill we start to slide and spin ourselves into the ditch. We get out and survey the problem and decide to back down the hill in 4wd low and see how it goes. At the bottom of the hill Dad turned to the road and got back on. Luckily we didn't scrape up with the barbed wire fence. So we turned around and went back home through town.
We drive back to Roch and I drop Elena off at the hospital. Olivia and I go to Menards to buy some guttering stuff to help with the drainage in the basement. They were running an 11% off sale and I had a bunch of store credit so I got about 150 dollars worth of stuff for 15. So that was good. We went out to the car and I saw that we had been in there for an hour and a half and I was thinking that Elena would have been waiting for us and be miffed. We parked and went in and found her all strapped up to monitors and not looking happy.
She's going to be on bed rest for the rest of the pregnancy. This is not so good. I'm on vacation this week so we're fine for daycare but the next few weeks could get hairy for Olivia. Her pressures were high, distolic around 90-100. We stayed there for a while and talked about stuff. The resident I'm told is a 3rd year and she's updated through a doctor who's been there for a while. The midwives assured us that they would stay in touch because thats who we want to go through but with the pressures high it doesn't look good. She'll probably get the steroid shot to help the baby's lungs develop in case of a premature birth. She's further along than with Olivia by about a week now and every day counts. Baby seems to be doing good.
I am so tired of hospitals and if we have to do the same with this kid and Olivia I don't know how we'll do it. I work so many evenings past daycare hours I just don't know.

The death toll for the earthquake tsunami is around 150k. Its just a mess over there. There is more destruction than anyone can deal with. These people have no insurance or good medical help or water or anything. They are still pulling people out of the mess.