No, not talking scriptures here folks...its the medical procedure. We will not have internet for a few days so writing this a bit early. The plan is to go in for the D & C at the hospital on monday morning. It is kind of a rushed procedure. Originally we had discussed doing the procedure at the fertility doc's office. They don't put you completely under, just mostly. They said you feel some pain, but will not be with it enough to remember by the next day. However, we learned we would have to wait three more weeks to get in with the only doctor who takes our insurance there. We will defiantly meet our 3,000 dollar deductible with this procedure and then some. When it all come out , looks like we will pay a few hundred more because we decided to do the hospital route. This will allow us to do the procedure earlier, and if we qualify perhaps medicaid will chip in a bit (in process of applying). We are not counting on that at all however. Michael is very nervous about having me under anesthesia since he has seen so many different reactions in the hospital to it. So we are praying all goes well. The procedure itself is relatively simple, only taking about 3 to 4 minutes they say, but I will probably be in the hospital a few hours....
However, we are not 100% certain we can go ahead with the procedure. They did a urine test in the doc's office, and the test still comes out positive for pregnancy. That is strike one. This is not completly unnormal, as it takes awhile for levels to go back down and your body still thinks its pregnant. So I had to go in for a HcG blood draw (I am sooooooooooo getting tired of these draws...yuck!) . If the levels are lower than when I started pregnancy I will get a green light to go ahead. However, if they are the same or still higher I have to get a second blood test drawn on mother's day (yeah, considering I will be home with Matthew all day[except church of course] by myself while Michael is doing labs for school...no choice on that, he comes or is kicked out of the program). Not super excited if you can't tell. Anyway, we are hoping all works out with everything. So many things going on here, so lots and lots of prayers please!!! What if the levels aren't down or coming down, what will we do? um..yeah...I have no idea!
Friday, May 10, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
the news...
So we went in for the second ultrasound today, and there was no heart beat. The doctor looked around for a while to make sure. Last time we saw it very easily, but no luck this time. She said the baby probably died soon after our last ultrasound. The egg sack was still very large, not too much over the normal, but way big in comparision to the baby . The baby was still super small. They said seems very much like a choromsomal abnormality with all the signs. And yes, I did shed a few tears in the doctors office after the official news.
What does that mean now? Back to square one. We will wait two weeks to see if the baby comes out on its own, but probably not. Its only a 20% chance, most require D&C aparently. Our doctor is out of town for two weeks, and only he is covered under our insurance, so we have to wait until he is back. Another option would be a pill that causes contractions and starts the miscarriage, but that option didn't sound pleasant to me. They said it was pretty painful. I've heard that from more than one person. We do have the option of getting a D&C done at the doctors office or the hospital. At the doctors office they would not put me totally out, just give some other pain medication so I would still feel the cramping some, but I wouldn't quite be all there either. The other they would put me out, I'd have the procedure and it would be done. The procedure itself is very short. So we are going to look at what this would cost us before we decide which route we would take, if that's the route we have to go. We still have 1,500 left to pay on our deductible, plus the 20% after that. Our health savings is already gone, but we do have some savings for school that will have to be used. (lucky us all these bills this year, not to mention we have now have to fix some things on our car and just payed a huge school bill also. Good times. i know some of you have definatly been there. So thankful for our savings or at this point we would really be in some serious trouble! :) Glad I learned the habit of saving early on, its been a HUGE blessing for us ).
After that? We need to wait a month for my body to recover a bit, then we can try again if we want. At this point I don't know what we will do quite yet. We still need time to process things, look over our finances, and see how we feel about things. The doctor was pretty optimistic that since we did get pregnant, we could do so again. I also feel very optimistic about that. I am greatful that we were able to get pregnant, even though it did not work out because that means there is hope for future pregnancies, or at least one. It is very trying to go through treatments, so how many times we do this will depend on how much we can handle not only financially, but emotionally.
But overall I am greatful we were able to get pregnant. I really feel comforted by this, that it did work. Its kind of funny that the very thing that is bringing us great heartache at this time is also the thing the brings us the greatest hope. I pray the Lord will grant more children to be part of our family, and we are pretty confident He will, no matter how they get to us. We are thankful to Him and the strength He gives us daily.
On another note...go BYU! (haha just a tidbit in there to get a smile on your face after reading our news!)
What does that mean now? Back to square one. We will wait two weeks to see if the baby comes out on its own, but probably not. Its only a 20% chance, most require D&C aparently. Our doctor is out of town for two weeks, and only he is covered under our insurance, so we have to wait until he is back. Another option would be a pill that causes contractions and starts the miscarriage, but that option didn't sound pleasant to me. They said it was pretty painful. I've heard that from more than one person. We do have the option of getting a D&C done at the doctors office or the hospital. At the doctors office they would not put me totally out, just give some other pain medication so I would still feel the cramping some, but I wouldn't quite be all there either. The other they would put me out, I'd have the procedure and it would be done. The procedure itself is very short. So we are going to look at what this would cost us before we decide which route we would take, if that's the route we have to go. We still have 1,500 left to pay on our deductible, plus the 20% after that. Our health savings is already gone, but we do have some savings for school that will have to be used. (lucky us all these bills this year, not to mention we have now have to fix some things on our car and just payed a huge school bill also. Good times. i know some of you have definatly been there. So thankful for our savings or at this point we would really be in some serious trouble! :) Glad I learned the habit of saving early on, its been a HUGE blessing for us ).
After that? We need to wait a month for my body to recover a bit, then we can try again if we want. At this point I don't know what we will do quite yet. We still need time to process things, look over our finances, and see how we feel about things. The doctor was pretty optimistic that since we did get pregnant, we could do so again. I also feel very optimistic about that. I am greatful that we were able to get pregnant, even though it did not work out because that means there is hope for future pregnancies, or at least one. It is very trying to go through treatments, so how many times we do this will depend on how much we can handle not only financially, but emotionally.
But overall I am greatful we were able to get pregnant. I really feel comforted by this, that it did work. Its kind of funny that the very thing that is bringing us great heartache at this time is also the thing the brings us the greatest hope. I pray the Lord will grant more children to be part of our family, and we are pretty confident He will, no matter how they get to us. We are thankful to Him and the strength He gives us daily.
On another note...go BYU! (haha just a tidbit in there to get a smile on your face after reading our news!)
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