Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Please pray

I had my doctor appointment today at 3:15, and I truly appreciate and love my OB. She is wonderful, and she has the ability to make you feel like you are her only patient when she is with you. I know I can trust her, and I know that she will take good care of me.
She is very concerned about the ultrasound pictures from yesterday, and she is anxious to do a suction D&C so that the mess of crap in my uterus can be sent to the lab (There is no baby in there, and if there ever was a tiny life, she never developed so I am left with a mass of abnormal tissue, hence the term: mess. of. crap.) She said there is a chance that it could be malignant although at this point, I am not at high risk for this being the case.
During the procedure, they will put me under general anesthesia, and basically perform an abortion like procedure... it kind of makes me sick thinking about it, and I can't imagine going through something like that to get rid of my living unborn child... however, she said that since it is a suction D&C and there will be no scraping, I am not at risk for scarring etc. There really seems to be no other option since it is imperative that the tissue be sent to pathology.
After the procedure, she said that for three months it is absolutely necessary that we do not get pregnant. She phrased it like this, "you will either need to abstain completely or be put on a contraceptive of some kind." She knows full well that we have a moral problem with contraceptives, and I think that is why she threw in the abstinence part. I reminded her that contraception isn't an option for us, and I told her that our three pregnancies have been a result of us not using NFP to its fullest potential for preventing a pregnancy. She didn't push me about it, and she just stressed one more time that pregnancy would only cause further complications.
Apparently, any rise in my hcg levels is cause for concern that the molar tissue is returning, and the treatment is chemo since it comes back like cancer that metastasizes and spreads to other parts of the body.
She said that getting pregnant after 3 months would be okay, but waiting 6 months give or take would be a prudent decision. So like I said, we are about to become Creighton Model rock stars! woot woot! Bring on the self control! haha
At the end of my appointment, I broke down in tears, and my wonderful OB gave me a hug, and I told her how much I appreciate her because I trust her so much.

This is my wonderful doctor shortly after she delivered Lucy.
Oh and before I left, she told me that this whole thing seems to be Divine intervention because she usually doesn't schedule follow up ultrasounds with what originally appeared to be a typical blighted ovum miscarriage! She said that she wasn't even sure why she told me to come back in a week... but she did, and I am confident that the Holy Spirit gave her a nudge. If I hadn't gone back in yesterday, it would have taken even longer to discover, and the chances of the tissue mutating and becoming malignant only gets higher. Molar pregnancies are extremely rare, and as I said in my last post, they occur in only about 1 in every 1000 pregnancies so it wouldn't be a routine thing to check for, I guess.
And so tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn, we will be dropping the girls off to my parents and headed to the hospital. I have to be there at 6:30 and the procedure is scheduled for 7:30. Please pray for me. I know that this is all in God's hands, and I have faith that He will bring us through this safer, stronger, and holier.

St. Monica, pray for us
St. Veronica, pray for us
St. Gianna, pray for us

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4 comments:

  1. oh, Megan. I am so sorry. I will be praying and offering my morning for you. I have to say, I am really scared now, I never had a follow up ultrasound after my miscarriage. I had one at 8 weeks and it looked like a healthy 4 week old baby - but I knew because of NFP and sure enough, a few weeks later I lost the baby.I am so so sorry you are going through this - I pray the 3-6 months will be a beautiful time for you and your hubby to grow even closer! Blessings!

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  2. Oh, I am sorry I missed this and I think the procedure is over. I hope it went well and that you are recovering well. God bless you and please update us when you can.

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  3. Megan... I've been away from the computer a lot lately. Praying all went/goes well. What a great doctor!

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