Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Got out of the hopital today after six days of hell

Well I am so confused as how to explain the craziness i have been through in the last five days...it has been hell. As you know I found out I was pregnant on Feb 24 Th. I was beyond shocked. I took the test twice and just couldn't believe my eyes. I scheduled a apt for the very next day to confirm with a doctor. Yup i was pregnant. Jesse says "thought you could Not get pregnant" then "so we need and extra room" (he has been remodeling a home be purchased over the summer for us a bigger place with six kids). So it was weird on Feb 27Th I went to the bathroom and not fifteen minutes later felt like I just wet myself. I was having an achiness in my stomach. So I take it easy and then when it happened again I go to emergency room because when they confirmed pregnancy and realize I had tubal almost 7 years ago (in Sept 02) and gave me a bunch of here your pregnant reading materials and things to expect charts, so number two reason to go to er- vaginal leakage. The doctor take blood and urine, then says he going to do pelvic- says cervix closed 100% and then he done i say that doesn't explain why my stomach aches. Told me go home and no strenuous activities, and they scheduled me for an ultrasound on Monday Mar 2ND and this is Fri 27Th. So I am at home doing nothing but laying around taken it as easy as possible. go to bed early and woke about a million times. Went to bathroom at 530a ( Feb 28Th) and saw blood. Went directly to the emergency room and they took blood and urine and did pelvic exam- checked cervix and swabbed out blood but no culture done again. They ordered an ultrasound to be done right now,checked my hcg level, came in and told me the miscarriage was complete that there was no fetus or tissues left. Said she didn't actually believe I was really pregnant. So she sent me home and says take it easy. I left hospital at 8am. Went home and was taking it easy as they say- yet I was suffering because I'm in pain and they say it already over. Yet they give me no pain medicine or antibiotics. I went back to the emergency room after calling and asking if I should even come back if the pain has increased. They said I was always able to go in for a pain management visit and get a prescription. I get there at around 230p got a different doctor again. He looked back over the previous two visits and ordered blood and urine again and completed another pelvic exam with culture this time. Wanted to check my hcg levels and said I was having a miscarriage because it was not yet complete. Said I was to watch the blood loss and rest as much as I could. Gave me a prescription for hydrocodone every 6 hours for pain. Said that my hcg levels were dropping and gave me a 3 days off work release. All three of the doctors told me to keep my doctors appointment that had already been scheduled for Monday March 2ND. Went to the appointment and they didn't know what to do with me. Scheduled me to see a ob/gyn specialist at 345p same day Monday because they couldn't explain the amount of blood loss and pain associated with this miscarriage. So I had thought of skipping this appointment because now I had already seen four doctors and they were stumped. I pretty much figured they were all just going to let me bleed to death because they knew nothing. In the end Jesse told me I should go and let them know something was very wrong and that they had to do something about all my suffering. This doctor did a pelvic exam and told me get dressed. He was back in the room in 3 minutes with admission papers to the hospital told me he would meet me there. I chain smoked 2 cigs and checked in. His biggest concern was that the baby was in my tube and if it burst I could bleed to death for sure if that didn't happen a lot of other things could. He had them get me prepped for surgery. They observed my vitals for a couple hours to be sure I was stable and collected more urine and blood to see where my levels were at. I went into surgery at 5pm. He explained to me that his first intentions were to scrape my uterus(dnc) and was hoping to get tissue at least to prove it was a simple miscarriage and get the bleeding to stop so it would ease my pain. Said that he could do it all microscopically if that was in fact going to be the cure. Said at the same time he would be doing a laproscope to check my tubes for damage. Which he found I had a severe bladder infection before the surgery was to start so he had them pushing 3 IV bags of antibiotics through my system before they went in. Told me I would only have the same incision that I had from my first tubal ligation if all was good. He would only cut further if it was a necessity. He did explain to me that if he in fact found the baby in my tube that my tubes would become a severe liability to my health then or in the future if I got pregnant again so he would have to remove them both for my protection. I came out of surgery and woke up in recovery shortly after 8pm on the 3rd of march. When I finally came to enough to comprehend what had fully happened I was in pretty much the same amount of pain. I was being given pain medication every 4 hours to control it though. It cut the pain in half. It at least helped. He did find the baby in my tube and said it has caused my tube to be four times its normal size, if it would have been left in their it would have killed me when it burst. Said a normal fallopian tube was no larger than the size of a pencil and that was large. Said mine had swollen with baby in it to the size of an intestine. He removed both of my tubes and the baby. Told me if I in fact ever wanted to have anymore children I could do it by invetro fertilization and would have a better chance because then all I had to do was carry the baby once it was placed safely into my uterus and that my tubes would no longer have the ability to fertilize and transport a fetus as they once did without risking my health and life again. So I ended up with my belly button scar being cut open plus some further cutting and stapled shut with four staples and I had to be cut on both my sides also to get the expanded pieces of tube out. So I have staples in those incisions as well but I have yet to remove those bandages for the first time to see exactly how many staples are holding me together there. I didn't make it to the pharmacy to get my pain medication filled or to get gauze and tape, because after I got out of the shower I would need to change the dressings. So I couldn't take my shower and I am feeling nasty. I hope to be up early and get a ride to the pharmacy because I am not allowed to drive for at least a week. I can not do house chores for a month, have sex for at least a month, only thing I can do is walk for short periods of time, and rest to get my body to heal. It is 12am and I have already been waken from the pain, and Jesse is a bed hog that is going to end up rolling over on me if I stay in bed. Sucks. I took some of the first pain medicine that was prescribed to at least help until I get my stronger pain medicine tomorrow. I was released from the hospital at 6pm on march 4Th. That has been my last 6 days of hell. I am only at the beginning of my healing 30 day minimum doctor says. I am not even to lift more than a gallon of milk for the next month. I don't know what I am going to do with myself. I had a horrible nurse half the time I was in the hospital that made me feel like a burden. So I wouldn't ask for pain med or anything while she was on shift. I would ask other nurses when she was on break. I couldn't wait to get out of their. I am going to turn her into the board at the hospital for hr treatment of patients and her rudeness.

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