D&C's

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

D&C’s

If you have a weak stomach or can't stand reading about blood this isn't the blog for you to read. This is what happened to me and might be considered Too Much Information for some.

So most of you know what happened but for those who don't this is my story. After we found out on Feb. 11th that we had a miscarriage I had the first D&C on Friday the 15th. All went went, or so we thought. It took a long time to get out of the hospital because they wanted to make sure I could use the bathroom on my own before leaving. I guess they used a catheter and man I didn't know that made it hard to pee. So once I could finally go they let me leave.

5 days later I started bleeding bad. It started at church around 9pm. I went home and it slowed down. At about 1am it got much worse with a lot of blood clots. I started thinking about going to the ER but did not want to go to the Pordenone hospital because I heard so many bad things about it. The base hospital closes at night and weekends. So I told Sergio to go to bed and I would wake him if I thought I needed to go. I wanted to wait until the morning.

At 4am it got worse, the bleeding was about the same but now I was white as a ghost, I had taken 2 percocet and still felt the cramps. My legs began to become very weak and I had a hard time walking on my own. I began to shiver uncontrollably, my teeth were chattering so hard that they hurt. So I woke up Sergio and told him that we needed to go after some pushing from my mom and sister. So we went.

The translator met us there and they took me up in a wheelchair. Things are so weird there, but anyway, they did an ultrasound and the doctor was talking a lot and the translator said little so I don't know everything he said except that I had a lot of blood collecting in my uterus because the first D&C left behind some "matter" and it began to clot. My Dr had told me with the first one there was a chance of this happening since my uterus was shaped different it would be hard to get it all but he would do his best.

So they wanted to keep me there overnight and then first thing in the morning (it was 5am by this time) to do another D&C. He said that I could also chose to leave and wait to see if the hospital on base could do something for me but if I started bleeding again I could begin to hemorage and then would need it done ASAP. So I went home because I just don't trust them there. Plus they don't know what my Dr said about the shape of my uterus and if they screwed up then I can't have kids in the future. So I took my chances and went home. By this time I was feeling a little better, maybe because the bleeding stopped again and I was getting more blood back I don't know.

So at 7:30am I called the hospital on base and they told me to come right in. I did and got some blood work and another ultrasound and then they told me to come back at 1:45pm to get the second D&C (I had ate when I got home and they wanted to wait a little while). So I came back and ended up going in at 5pm since they had a serious case ahead of me. I don't remember much from the whole day since we were both up for almost 40 hours straight. I was able to use the bathroom right away and they let us leave faster because she thought I was "out of it" from not sleeping and not from the medication. It was from the medication but I didn't tell her that.
So afterwards, no real bleeding and not really any cramping. So I am hoping now that it is finally over and I can move on from here.