A Little Drama

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. For us, it has been a rough week. Let me explain.
When I posted my last miscarriage update, I told you that I was basically done other than some "minor testing" to be done later. Well, "later" has arrived, and the "minor testing" has turned into 2 weeks of lab work and a trip to the Dr. on Monday for a sonogram, more labwork, and a possible D&C. Long story short, my HCG levels (the hormone that your body produces when you are pregnant) still haven't returned to zero, the ultimate goal. My level, as of today, is 3. I might have to have surgery for a 3. Does that seem a little crazy to anyone else, or is it just me?? (Just to give you some perspective, my level was 80,000 at my first lab draw 2 and a half months ago, so we've come a long way). At any rate, my doctor is worried that there might still be a small cluster of cells stuck in there somewhere, and it's time to get rid of them however we have to.

Sooooo, to Augusta we will go on Sunday night so that we can report first thing Monday morning. I never switched doctors thinking it wasn't the best idea to switch in the middle of a medical situation, and never dreamed we'd still be dealing with this now. Frankly, I am dreading the ultrasound. I was supposed to be finding out if my baby was a boy or a girl about now, not finding out if I need to have an outpatient procedure done or not. I'm not quite sure how I'm even going to walk into the room at this point, but maybe the adrenaline will kick in on Monday. Hopefully, my hormone levels will be down to zero by then and the ultrasound will be clear, but if that's not the case, we'll try to go ahead and get the D&C done that day.

If you wouldn't mind, please keep us in your prayers. I am sure everything is going to be fine. But I love babies, and want more children very much, so I'm feeling a little paranoid right now that there may be more complications to come. I always freak out over any little thing whenever this particular body system is concerned anyhow, and these new developments aren't helping matters. In retrospect, I should have had the D&C as soon as we confirmed that the levels were dropping. But hindsight is 20/20, and we made the best decision we could with the information we had at the time.

By the way, September 29 is Chili's "donate all profits to St. Jude" day, so mark your calendar for dinner if you live around here. As long as I'm feeling up to it, (and I'm planning to), we're going to support this cause and would love to get a local group together. More about that next week!