On Monday November 12, 2012 my mom had right knee replacement surgery. She remained in the hospital for 3 days and was transferred to the rehab hospital where she stayed until she was discharged on Wednesday November 21. I opened my home up to her especially since I have everything---bathroom, shower, kitchen, living room all on one level. Where as her home is a tri-level---bath with no shower and rooms upstairs, living room and kitchen middle level, and shower downstairs. I knew it would be enough accomplishing my house at first.
It has been nice being able to care for my mom. It is hard to watch on the days she hurts more and there really isn't anything else but to let the healing process take its place.
Also this Thursday November 29 my mother in law is having surgery for uterine cancer. Dusty will be caring for his mom tomorrow, as it is a one day surgery and then dismissed home as long she pees. Then on Friday after Arianna gets out of school she will stay with Grandma Beverly through the weekend to help her, as she has no one else.
But to add to this, on Sunday I began to have vaginal bleeding. We hadn't told anyone that were expecting. From the start I just felt something wasn't right. So on Sunday afternoon, we went in to the ER where a vaginal sono was done. ER doctor told me I was growning a gestational sac measuring 14 weeks but no baby. He told me if the bleeding increased or the cramping worsened I was to call my OB. Later Sunday night, my bleeding increased greatly and cramping worsened. I called the ob office and the operator told me the on call nurse would call me back. An hour later still no phone call. I called back. 10 minutes later the operator called to make sure nurse had called but still no call. Finally 10 minutes later she called but told me that my bleeding was normal and to call the ob Monday morning. It didn't feel normal but I was tired and wanted to sleep.
Monday morning came, Dusty went to work. I thought I felt good until I got out of bed and began to throw up. I managed to get the kids ready for school but on the way home the cramping was increasing. I just began feeling worse. So I got home and before calling the office got sick again. I laid down on the couch for an hour then called. The receptionists said they had an opening that day but would have the nurse call back. She called back and asked if I had my ER reports. I said no just the informative discharge sheet. She said I needed to get those before they could see me. This just upset me after I hung up the phone. By this time I was feeling terrible emotionally and physically. It was a process trying to track down how to get the ER report papers. My mom was very mad over this because I was in tears and hurting and trying to find out how to get the ER papers. Finally I called back the nurse and told her I felt terrible. She said it was normal. I didn't feel normal, even if this was a miscarriage. I felt terrible. So she scheduled me for Tuesday at 11.
Tuesday I get up to shower and by now I am feeling like I am in labor so to speak. I was bleeding heavily and cramping immensely with a bad backache. Dusty took off so he took me out to the hospital to get my ER papers and then we went to my appt. Where they already had the papers. I didn't care at this point I just felt awful. The doctor came in and talked to me about miscarriages. Then he examined me and found my cervix was dialating and what looked like the placenta trying to pass. He used a long pair of tong like thing to ease it out. And oh my goodness that relief that I felt after that. Now he cleaned up the "area" too but I was tender and sore so this hurt. He explained to me that if the bleeding hasn't stopped or the cramping continues I am to call back by the end of the week. But for now he wants to let nature take its course before doing a D&C. I am to followup in one week for lab work to make sure my HCG levels are dropping.
This just really hurts. The emotions are everywhere right now. And with so much going on it usually hits me at night or in the shower when I am alone. I have never experienced this before, this is all new to me. It crushes my heart but I know I have an angel baby waiting for me in heaven.
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