Honestly, for a needle phobic to have to endure five tries for two IVs, plus blood-work three times, plus a rather painful steroid shot in the hip...well, she was brave little toaster is what.

Why the steroids in the hip? I am flashing to the shots I get for tendonitis but that doesn't seem right. If it is? My sympathies cause those freak me the hell out when I am not worried about a Halloweenie.

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My iPod just got MiB'd (restored) and now I get to reload everything. This best fix its wee little flummoxed brain. This is gonna take a while.

Why the steroids in the hip?

Pushes the Halloweenie's lungs to develop. 28 weeks is early and they're covering all bases if the Halloweenie doesn't stay put. JZ will have another steroid shot tomorrow and that's a full course to get the lungs ready. Lungs are the last thing to develop and the steroids apparently make a big difference. There's very little side-effect they said, though I'm sure Ple's already researched this subject inside and out and could give me the numbers.

We're at a point where every week is huge. JZ is 29 weeks as of Tuesday. If we can squeak by to 34 weeks then we're pretty much in the clear.

As Ple noted upthread, though, we've already reached a major plateau at 28 weeks so the Halloweenie's odds have gone from 50% survival at 24 weeks up to better than 95% at 28 weeks.

Ah, systemic steroids not shot into the joint.

And, because I haven't said so for a few hours, I am sending my thoughts and prayers and whathaveyous that she stays put until her scheduled debut. Perhaps even a day or two fashionably late.

I can give you no numbers, but pretty much everything I read suggested that the steroid shots very, very, very rarely have any negative side effects, and it's even more rare for said side effects to be serious if they do happen.

The Halloweenie would like to stay put until 13 October, so that she can be exactly 1.5 years younger than Miss Lillian. Drat it.

DAVID - repeating offer of being gofer for you and JZ. I even have access to wheels - a truck, to be precise. I can bring whatever. Just call.

Blergh. Not tired.

And I was really getting past the whole nocturnal thing, I really thought so. Enough that I have early morning plans tomorrow.

Just took half an Ambien and will go try bed.

iPod is happily updating. One quarter done. Might be done by morning...

Okay something near enough to sleepy is here so I am letting down my keyboard and wandering toward z's.

While I do this, my iTunes is feeding my iPod like the hungry, hungry harddrive that it is. Fingers are crossed that this continues. It would be so nice to wake up to a functional iPod. It really would.

I suspect Strange Dreams tonight, but they are usually rather entertaining and I think I used up the currect stock of nightmares from it so safe even.

I'm going on holidays tomorrow, yay! So why am I not packing? It's a question for the ages.

I am so relieved to hear that the Halloweenie seems to be staying put for the nonce. Hopefully, this will be the worst scare she ever gives the two of you, in or out of the womb.

Anne! It's good to see you! You are doing okay, I hope?

Thanks! Things are going more or less okay, but work has been very busy of late. I'm also having to deal with cleanup after a massive screwup on the part of a co-worker, which means that I'll be spending a good part of today at the office, to finish with the cleanup. Feh.

The Halloweenie would like to stay put until 13 October, so that she can be exactly 1.5 years younger than Miss Lillian. Drat it.

OK, how much would I LOVELOVELOVE for her to be born on the 13th (even if it's a tad early)?