Post Surgery Update

On Monday I went to the doctor to see what was going on in the hopes that this miscarriage was on its way. Unfortunately what we saw on the ultrasound was masses of grape like tissue that had rapidly grown since my last visit which pointed to a molar pregnancy. On my first ultrasound at 7 1/2 wks we saw several "grapes" and were unsure what it was then because there was a heartbeat and it wasn't as visible on the "better" machine at the hospital. Even at my second visit the whole gestational sac had changed a lot but it did not look like there were a lot more of these structures. Now since we could see the masses of growing grape like tissue the best and only option for me was to have surgery TOMORROW which was yesterday because both doctors best guess was that this was a molar pregnancy which cannot be confirmed until after pathology tests everything. What was strange was I did not have any of the common symptoms of molar pregnancy except the "grapes" and that my body was still continuing to think it was pregnant even though there was no heartbeat which is why I never miscarried- I think?

So the surgery was yesterday and it was not scary. The worst part was the IV because I have little veins :) Both doctors from my ob/gyn office were there and were great. The hospital staff and all the nurses were amazing. It is so so so different from the "commercial" hospitals of NYC. I woke up in the operating room after the end of the surgery so I was able to eat a lot sooner. I was STARVING. It was 4:45 and I hadn't eaten since the night before. Paul was there and I was able to leave by 7pm.

We went immediately to get Tom and Jerry from class because they had been sleeping over my parents house and my dad was going to run them at class so they didn't have to miss school! My dad did a great job with them except when Mr. Troublemaker Jerry decided to hit the gas and run really fast he made my dad fall down! Thank goodness they put the soft agiliflex floor down a few months ago and that my dad is OK!

I am feeling good now just a little tired but I can finally get out of the house for more than an hour or two and do some things. We will be waiting for the pathology report and hopefully will have it by tomorrow so we can see where to go from here. If it is a molar pregnancy I will have to have blood tests every week and hopefully get a negative pregnancy test result. A positive result would mean I still have molar tissue inside me and may need another D&C surgery. As soon as I get three negative results in a row I am tested monthly and after a year of negative results we can try to have another baby. My chances are slightly higher now for another molar pregnancy or other uterine diseases but the doctors said that if this was a molar pregnancy it was only a partial molar pregnancy which is the better one to have. So we will have to see what pathology says.