Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Scary 24 hours

Our New Years started apart from each other because hubby had to work (boo!) it also started by learning our cat doesn't like fireworks and gunfire and will respond to both by sitting on your head when you're sound asleep.  Believe it or not, January 1 started a lot better than it ended.  I sent the hubby out to watch some football yesterday so I could get some rest because I've been battling a cold and the pregnancy already has me super sleepy. I woke up around 6 not feeling well, went to the bathroom and found my worst nightmare, blood, a lot of it.  I freaked out and called hubby to come take me to the ER.  Because I was scared I asked him to take me to the closest hospital which was a mistake, it's the downtown hospital and more suited to drug overdoses and schizophrenia than pregnancy problems.  By the time I got there I was bleeding really badly and they couldn't understand why I didn't want to sit in the waiting room.  It took 3 sticks and two nurses to get blood (one of whom wanted to talk about how her preacher told her and her fiancĂ© they can't have sex until the marriage but she really didnt think she was gonna be able to do that, really lady?) I went off to ultrasound and was scanned by a tech who wouldn't tell me anything but spent 20 minutes scanning me.  I got taken back down to the emergency room and they tried to start an iv.  Two sticks later they had an iv line they could give me fluids with but couldn't get blood out of.  Twenty minutes later they needed more blood so I got stuck again (5th time) for that one.  The doctor came in after an excruciating hour and told us what the ultrasound showed was two embryos but on,y one was developing appropriately and had a heartbeat, plus I have developed a fibroid.  They called my local RE's office and the doctor on called told me he suspected we lost the twin and that the one that still had a heartbeat was a good sign but I needed to come in today for another ultrasound to see if the one baby was holding on.  I didn't get much sleep last night and spent a lot of time crying.  We went in this morning and had one of our favorite techs do our scan.  The one baby is still holding on, looking fabulous with perfect measurements and heartbeat and they don't see the other embryo at all now.  So, as of right now we are still pregnant with one of the babies and I'm taking the rest of the week off to rest.  I go in a week from today for a follow up ultrasound.  Hopefully by then the bleeding will stop (it has slowed WAY down) and the baby will be fine.
What a scary way to start the year.

1 comment:

  1. Oh my goodness! Scary! So glad that you made it through OK. It's very sad about the baby you lost... but very happy about the baby you still have. Prayers!

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