I spent a nerve wracking 5 hours in the ER last night.
I went to dinner with my friend Jenn and as were leaving I felt a gush, so I asked her to go to the bathroom with me and make sure everything was okay before she left me. (Jason is gone this weekend ). Sure enough I was bleeding, so she took me to the hospital. We Started to head toward skyridge as I called obx, they sent us psl instead. She said my doctor's couldn't take care of me there, (even though i never saw them anyway) so we had what seemed like the longest drive ever downtown. I just prayed the whole way.
I still can't believe it happened.
The Obx nurse said something about them sending ob down to er, which never happend. They put us in a room and it still had blood in the vacuum cup on the wall, things on the counter and I asked it was safe to assume the sheets are clean, disgusting!
The Doctor did an exam to check stitches and make sure my cervix was closed. He ordered an ultrasound which we had to wait 2 hours for. Then she finally comes to get me and she tells me I wont be able to see anything and she won't be able to say a word, ill have to wait for whoever to read them. Are you kidding! ! She does internal and external, not saying a word just making expressions. She wouldn't even at least tell me if there were heartbeats. As she's taking me back to the room she tells me it will only be 10 minutes. 2 hours later, and after we called a nurse 4 times, the dr comes back.
Now it is about two in the morning, and he says there is good fetal heart tones on both babies (thank god) and he has consulted with the obx dr on call, baby A's placenta is over my cervix and the placenta moving can cause bleeding. This is called placenta previa, which essentially means bedrest and a c section if the placenta doesn't move up. I could care less if I have a c-section. I would just really like a non stress, no more bleeding, full term pregnancy. He also says I have to have a full Iv bag before I can go home. (Its now 230 am and I've had the iv thing in my arm for 4 hours) so after that, we headed home.
I was scared to death to be by myself the rest of the night. He left me with the whole list of all of the possible reasons I should come back.
Its 930 am now, bleeding seems to have slowed, im on bedrest and supposed to follow up with OBX tomorrow.
I just talked to Jas and was able to fill him in.
I am so grateful Jen was with me.
As of now im not so excited about PSL! Good thing they have the best nicu because so far I do not feel very confident with them. Not to mention of the two nurses and the doctor for taking care of me, everytime one of them came in, they would tell us something different. We are pretty sure there was no communication going on!
We will see what my doctor has to say tomorrow.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
ER visit
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