Man, has it been a busy few days?!?
My dad has been admitted to the hospital. He had some sort of cyst on his face that wound up becoming infected. They've got him on an IV of antibiotics. He's doing really well, but they still want to observe him. So I've been running back and forth from my house to my parents in Philly (mom doesn't drive).
DH hasn't been feeling very well as of late, so he went to the doctor yesterday. He has an appt for an u/s this morning at 10:10. Another thing keeping me busy and crazy.
As for the RE... I love that place! I've been there twice now.
The first day, they went over our history then Dr. Russell came in and is all about opening up my right tube and getting that going within 30 days. They did a Follie u/s which was super cool. It was the first time I've ever seen my eggs.
There were 2 left over in my right ovary from last cycle and 8-9 developing in my left! My uterine lining was 1.7 All looked good.
Yesterday I went back for a Hysteroscopy (catheter with a camera is inserted into your cervix and uterus to check for abnormalities.)
I get in the room and see that instead of the normal table & stirrups that there's a chair in the room. The nurse tells me to take off my undies and cover up with the giant paper napkin.
Dr. Russell's PA came in, introduced herself and said she'd be doing the procedure. She said she understood I had a painful HSG experience and said she'd do everything she could to be quick, but if it became too much for me to take to let her know and they'd stop and have me come back and put me to sleep for it.
"Really?!?" She said "Absolutely. You are driving this... so whatever it is that you need... that's what we'll do." Wow. I'm not used to that kind of medical care. So I get ready to scootch all the way to the edge and she tells me I don't have to do that. Just sit back and let them do their thing.
The chair kicks on and starts tilting back so that my head is kinda upside down and my Hoo-Haa is in the air. As soon as she started to feed the catheter/camera in is when it started to get painful again. The nurse was great, she rubbed my arm and was very encouraging the entire time.
They were sure to ask if I wanted to continue several times and I figured "I'm here now... and I brought my Big Girl Panties, so let's just do this." They were FAB. They talked me through it "I'm almost completely in" "2 more pics" "One more" It helped me to hear that... it's like in my mind I told myself "Okay, only 2 more... I can do this for another 10 seconds" ya know? And then it was over.
I finally had someone explain to me why these sorts of things are so painful for me. It's because I have a Retroverted uterus. Probably got it from my maternal Grandmom. She had one too... and 6 kids!
She said it's tilted toward my back and that the catheter is not flexible. So once it gets into my cervix, they've got to force the catheter against the natural position of my uterus and that's why it's so painful for me.
She told me I did a fantastic job considering how retroverted my uterus is and how much it hurt... and needless to say, my uterus looks just fine. No polyps, no fibroids, no scarring, no nothing. :yay:
So I told her I was going to do my b/w after I left there and she said they should have the results by Friday. If I don't hear from them by Friday, I'm to call them and find out what my next step is.
So that's where we are with all of that.
It's been a whirlwind of the last few days... what with my dad in the hospital, my RE stuff, DH's Dr's appts... That's why I've been so MIA.
After his u/s this morning, we'll be driving in to Philly so he can go to work. Then I'm going to my folks to pick my mom up and either A... go visit my dad in the hospital or B... go pick my dad up from the hospital.
So in a nutshell, it's going to be another long day. Please forgive me for not having stopped by the past few days. I will do my very best to get caught up on all of you the moment things start settling down here.
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