October 26, fires

As I'm sure most of you have heard, we've been evacuated for the San Diego wildfires. We left our place about 9 PM Sunday, arrived at my in-laws' place about midnight and got evacuated from there about dawn so we went to my sister-in-law's place. Under stress and late for my progesterone (P 17) injection I started having too many braxton-hicks contractions, but the pharmacy that provides it was out of service and we'd left my supply at home not expecting to be gone that long. My mom got us plane tickets and we flew to Seattle Tuesday night, where we've been staying in a hotel. My medication got accidentally shipped to my apartment (no mail delivery there so it'll likely be returned to them) and they re-sent a new shipment which arrived today. I needed the shot by Thursday, I'm waiting for the nurse to contact me this evening to come give it to me. I'm able to get online briefly in the hotel lobby but unknown when I'll be able to get online again.

We got out the important papers and a couple small suitcases of clothes, not enough for how long we've been gone but it's something. I saw a local doctor yesterday to get checked out since I'm high risk, under a huge amount of stress and late for my shot. We got a quick check ultrasound and saw baby's fingers, opening and closing hands and looking at them. Everything looks okay. I missed my big ultrasound on Wednesday but they managed to schedule me for one this morning. It was very disappointing, I only got to see the screen ONCE and it was a blur of baby moving, the tech tilted the screen so I couldn't see it and didn't bother to show me anything. Justin had to step out with Will most of the time it was his nap time and he was not happy. No pics of baby's face, profile, hands, feet, nothing. I got 2 crappy pictures that look like a figure 8, the outline of baby's head and belly, not even worth the trouble of scanning it doesn't even resemble a baby. Measuring right on target for gestational age, 19 weeks today, about 9 ounces. Baby appears to be a girl but they weren't able to confim since she is too active and tech was a moron, but Will was very obviously a boy so no obvious danglies is evidence enough for me until proven otherwise.

Might be a problem though, baby has a good size, clearly visible bright spot on her heart. This could be an indicator of a genetic abnormality such as down syndrome, a heart defect or just a fluke she'll grow out of. They looked from several angles, got her to move around and crowded in a bunch of docs to check it out, nobody was very informative and I can't find much more helpful info than that online. She has no other indicators of a problem, they took a bunch of other measurements and I've had my quad screen bloodwork which tells your odds of genetic defects. I don't have those results, but doc told me they were "normal" some weeks ago. Still quite worried. We'll follow up with my doc and another ultrasound in 4-6 weeks and there's nothing we can do until my doc decides for more testing, she's currently not reachable from the fires.

We still don't know about our apartment. It's not on the burn list. Fast busy when I tried calling apartment manager so circuit is fried. I know stuff right by there burned. Water still off and news says power is mostly still off too. They're letting people back into town but residents only and so far nobody has been able to update us on the status of our place. I don't know when we'll be able to return home, I can't take my medically drama-prone self and Will's trouble making toddlerness back until we know it's safe and ready for us. Justin has to return Sunday for work on Monday, I'm hoping we can return with him since the idea of handling everything on my own is staggering and I really don't want to face a flight home with Will without help. He was great for the flight here, but also extremely exhausted so was easy to put to sleep and we had 2 adults so we could hand him back and forth and get a break. He's doing much better than I would have expected considering everything he's been through, a little bit of the runs from stress and diet change and having trouble napping but otherwise in good spirits.