Friday, December 23, 2011

The pregnancy that never ends!

Scott and I were so excited when Adelyn finally entered our world so that I could feel well again and get back to taking care of our family. However, that is not what happened. 3 days after I got home I started having very bad body aches which I thought was just from a lack of sleep and engorgement. After 10 days of body aches I started to have severe pain from my abdomen on down. By the third day of this pain I couldnt even stand up for more than 2 min before I was almost in tears. So I finally called the dr which is something Scott had wanted me to do since the simple body aches started. My Dr saw me immediately because he was seriously concerned. After seeing him he put me on two very strong antibiotics and scheduled me an ultrasound for the following monday. He didnt want to do the ultrasound until I had some time on the antibiotics to clear the infection some. He figured I had some left over placenta stuck in the uterus. After 3 days on antibiotics I was finally able to stand up again! Just in time for Bekah's bday party. I then went in for my ultrasound and the dr found that my uterus was full of blood and fluid. Not good! He sent me home to be very careful and scheduled surgery for this last thurs to perform a D&C. He told me that the D&C would hopefully work but if he couldnt stop the bleeding he would have to perform a hysterectomy. So basically I was going in to surgery not knowing if I would have a uterus when I woke up! I was a bit nervous! Those are two very different recoveries! I was worried about how this would effect nursing Adelyn as we were already having trouble because I have been so sick. The procedure was to take 20-30 min but actually took an hour and a half. The Dr talked to Scott but Scott is not good at asking questions. I do know that I lost a lot of fluid and blood, but everything turned out okay. I still have a uterus that I hope to never use again! haha. The dr hopes that this procedure fixes the infection that I had. I will admit that Im a little scared that the pain is going to come back as soon as the antibiotics are finished. As of today Im still having the body aches but hopefully in a day or two that will go away! Im so thankful for a great doctor and a very patient husband and a servant like Mother in law! Maybe now this pregnancy is over!!!

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