When I got to the restaurant, I felt wet along my thighs. At first I thought I was just sweating or getting a hot flash. I went to the restroom and I had bled through my pad, blood was down my legs, it even went above the pad and was on my tummy, and there was a massive blood clot on the pad.
I left the restaurant without meeting with the SMC's and texted one to let her know I thought I was miscarrying.
I wasn't sure what to do... I was in a bit of a panic from all the blood. I ended up calling my OB and got patched to the emergency line. They took my info and then told me that the doctor on call would call me back. I ended up driving to the hospital thinking I might need to go to the ER. Then I noticed I bled some more and it got all over my car seat... I ended up going home to "cleanup" and to clean my car and wait for the on-call doctor. I cried the entire drive home... I could feel myself getting almost hysterical that the baby may be gone.
The doctor finally did call and told me it doesn't look good. She told me to go to the ER. Bleeding through a pad in less than an hour and passing tissue = really not good.
After I cleaned myself up and cleaned my car seat, I pulled myself together and drove myself to the ER. Once there they they took my blood pressure, heart rate, had me pee in a cup, and took 5 vials of blood. I waited for about 2 hours before I got put in a room (really a bed). I was kind of in this daze and trying to prepare myself for what was to come.
Then, I waited 30 minutes until they moved me to the room that had the ultrasound machine. Which was weird because I didn't really notice the machine, didn't look like it does at the OB or the RE. Turns out that it wasn't the u/s room and they were just checking my cervix. That was the most painful speculum that I've EVER had put in!! She's like "oops". Ugh. They said my cervix was closed and blood was not coming out of the cervix, that the blood was in the vaginal canal now - which she said was good...
After that, they brought me to get an ultrasound. Where there was a prisoner! There were some armed correctional officers escorting him. Lucky me, I was in the room next to him. Can the day get any better?
It was so weird because they won't let me view the ultrasound while they're doing it. The ultrasound person does it, it goes to a radiologist who reviews it, then sends the results to the ER doctor, who then is supposed to relay the results. I wish I could've seen the ultrasound to know what was going on in there -- good or bad.
Then I waited for the results for 1 hour and 15 minutes. In the mean time, they took me to discuss billing and insurance.
Overall, 4 hours in the ER. I don't even want to know what the charge is going to be. They couldn't quote me a price and gave me a guesstimate. He asked me, "you want to put a payment down?" Umm no thank you, I'll wait to see the entire bill first, thank you. Such a strange experience...
The Results
Turns out that I have a subchorionic hemorrhage. They said the baby was measuring at 7 weeks, 1 day and that the baby's heartbeat was at 160 bpm. When the doctor finally got to the part about the baby being in there, I just started crying. I was expecting the complete opposite to happen. I was for sure thinking I had lost the baby...
I know I'm not out of the woods yet. There's scary stuff on this subchorionic hemorrhage stuff... I have an appointment with my RE tomorrow and hoping he can give me more details and how scared I should be about it and if it's going to cause any additional problems.
I'm emotionally exhausted. I wrote most of this while I was in the ER to keep my mind preoccupied and so I could remember what was happening. As I mentioned, I was in a compete daze. I'll write again after I meet with my RE and maybe have the energy to go into things a little more in detail.
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