Because apparantly spending most of last week in urgent care and doctors offices weren't enough, we had to make an ER trip too...

Where do I begin? Maybe by warning people that this may be a graphic post, so feel free to skip whatever you want!



Friday afternoon about 2:00 - right as I'm about to jump into the shower, I start feeling a really bad throbbing pain in my lower abdomen. I had just layed Brielle down for a nap not too long before that and so I turned on a cartoon for Brooklyn and said let's lay here for a minute, mommy doesn't feel good. It keeps getting worse and worse. I call Mike and he said go to urgent care. I call Kristina and ask her if she can watch the kids so I can go get checked out. I wake Brielle up, get the kids in the car take them over and by this time I can barely walk. On my way to urgent care my left leg starts going numb. I wait for an hour at urgent care and I am DYING! I thought maybe kidney stones? Appendicitis? Ectopic pregnancy did cross my mind. The urgent care doctor FINALLY walks in and says let me first say that you are pregnant. You need to get to the emergency room right now because we think you may have an ectopic pregnancy which is life threatening and we don't have any ultra sound machine to confirm anything, but we think you need to get there fast. He offers to call an ambulance for me or I could call a close relative. I called Kristina and Mary was there to watch the kids so she comes and picks me up to take me to the hospital. At this point I am in SO much pain, shock from the news that I am pregnant (but not too shocked...I'll explain later) and I just want to figure out what exactly was going on. I sign in at the ER, they get me into a bed relatively soon and after they draw some blood, take a few tests and do some ultrasounds I finally get hooked up to the morphine. After 10 minutes I feel MUCH better and the news comes in that it is an ectopic pregnancy and I have to go into emergency surgery. The doctor comes in and tells me what to expect. They were going to remove everything and try to repair the fallopian tube if possible, but if it was too damaged they would just take it out. I went into surgery and was really groggy coming out, I remember asking the doctor to check and make sure she didn't leave any of her tools in me. What????? And I also remember telling her that because it was 10:00 at night, I didn't think she should drive home because I didn't want her to fall asleep while driving. Weird that I remember what I was saying, but I don't remember why? Hmmm, anyways it turns out that my fallopian tube was beyond repair because it had ruptured (which was why I had so much pain) so they ended up taking it out which I am fine with. She said it shouldn't effect the chances of getting pregnant in the future but If it was repaired instead of taken out you actually have a higher chance of having an ectopic pregnancy again because of the scare tissue that would surround the tube. This may be TMI - but I did go off my birth control pills and had my last regular period in the beginning of January. I got pregnant with both girls the first month we were off birth control so I was thinking that I may get pregnant. I started spotting around the time I "should've" had my period and it lasted for 2 weeks. I researched online and from what I got, that was normal. Once again, I had always gotten pregnant right away so I have never dealt with weird periods after ending birth control. I took a pregnancy test anyways JUST to make sure. It came out negative. A few weeks later (last Friday) I started spotting again...a few days later I took another Pregnancy test JUST to make sure I wasn't pregnant - and it was still negative (that was Sunday - TIP - never use the dip stick dollar store pregnancy tests, apparently they don't work) so they think I was 8 weeks or so along. Emotionally I am doing really well. I didn't know I was pregnant, I didn't have a due date, it really wasn't "real" for me - so I'm doing well. Having surgery is never a fun feat and now I get to have a big C-section scar with staples and all that jazz. It ended up needing to be a bigger scar than thought because they took out my tube. The good news is that she didn't cut through my stomach muscles, she stretched them. I have heard from my friends that have had C-sections that the stretching of the muscles is less painful than cutting through them but not very many doctors do that because it's easier just to cut through them - so I guess that's good news. I am a very scheduled person and I felt like this was just so out of the blue that I'm all messed up now. The one BIG problem I have is that I can't lift a thing for two weeks....that is a problem considering my 2 year old daughter HAS to be carried everywhere given her recent condition. Perfect timing, huh? Thank goodness I have the best sister and the best mom that will do anything for us! You guys are the BEST - THANK YOU! As of now, I am still in the hospital but hopefully I will be leaving tonight so I can actually sleep at night :)