Hormonal crash (and burn)
The biggest difference between this miscarriage (technically a missed miscarriage) and the natural miscarriages (as in, not needing a D&C) is the hormonal crash. I suppose with my first two losses, the crash was not as shocking to my system. This time around, it’s insanity. I have horrible headaches almost every day. I have random [...]
Recovery
I wanted to let you all know that the D&C went quite well yesterday. The nurses were all spectacular, very sympathetic and compassionate towards me and Greg. The anesthesiologist who put me under was the same doctor who gave me my epidural for Elise. I was happy that he was putting me under, because it [...]
Moving forward
Today, all things considered, has been good. Lots of crying, lots of sadness, but a lot of optimism. My doctor, Greg, and I all agreed that given my physical state (absolutely no sign of miscarriage still) and mental state (eh) that it would be wise to proceed with a D&C. Mine will be tomorrow at [...]
Three Little Saints
There was a post I had in Drafts, praying so hard it could see the light of the Internet. It could not. Not long after our miscarriage in May, we were cautiously excited to learn we were expecting again. Immediate bloodwork was done, progesterone was started. The betas were fabulous and I could stop progesterone [...]
Polka dots be (almost) gone!
It appears we’re all done with hand-foot-mouth disease over here. Finally. Greg ended up missing two days of work, and had to forego working on our house the past weekend. He still has a good number of dots on his hands, but at least he has feeling back in them, and the pain is gone. [...]
Daddy’s Polka Dots
One good turn deserves another, right? Greg is now the newest victim of hand-foot-mouth disease. He says his hands are burning with the rash, he has it all over his face, general fatigue, and just overall feeling yucky. He also had a high fever (100*F, for the man who runs around 97*, that’s pretty high) [...]
Brudder’s Polka Dots
Poor Benedict. In addition to getting a bunch of teeth in, he also has some spectacular polka dots on him. At first, I thought “chicken pox!” since we don’t do the chicken pox vaccination. I had images of taping mittens on hands, scratchy babies, but chicken pox nonetheless. Then, I actually Googled chicken pox and [...]
Now what?
I am in a very precarious place at the moment. I am coming out of a large sleep drought (bad insomnia, what joy). Only this week, have I been able to sleep well, with the help of Hyland’s Calm’s Forte. I still feel somewhat submerged in a world of chaos, interior chaos that I really [...]
When life comes to a screeching halt
After writing this post, everything was great. Well, as great as they could be. Greg and I made the decision to not have a follow-up ultrasound, based on my physical recovery. If you know the details of our first loss, recovery physically was pretty much identical to that. And if you don’t, let me assure [...]
On being open to life
Thank you all for your prayers. We are doing “okay” over here. Yesterday was a particularly hard day for me, because I think things became more real. Not as if I was living in denial but I think the realization that “oh, we lost the baby. We’re not pregnant.” made it through to every part [...]
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