Down the tubes

Any answer has to start at the beginning. In 2002 we had our daughter, Kali, and she's been the light of our lives. Sometimes a green light, sometimes red, but regardless... we decided to try again in 2004.

It worked! I was pregnant in December 2003, found out in January 2004 and had a few weeks of happy 'Here we go again!" moments. Everything came crashing to a halt shortly after midnight at the end of January when I woke up, doubled over in pain and couldn't breath. It eased after a few minutes, but I started bleeding. The ER diagnosed a threatened miscarriage, the OB confirmed later that week and scheduled a D&C on Jan 28th. It was sad thing but we could move on... except that's where things got complicated.

Two weeks later I was still bleeding (just a little) and had some short bouts of intense pain (just a little). The OB was on vacay, the backup called in some meds but they made things worse. On Feb 13th at 10pm Brian insisted something was wrong and took me back to the ER. By midnight I was on IV painkillers, by 2am they had called the on-call surgeon and scheduled emergency surgery. The surgeon confirmed I had been within hours of dying from internal blood loss even before we went to the ER. The final diagnosis was a ruptured ectopic ("tubal") pregnancy, which resulted in the loss of the right fallopian tube. The pregnancy formally terminated on Sunday, Feb 14th.

I will always be thankful to Baylor Garland. They took good care of me, did everything possible and honestly, they saved my life. They delivered Kali and we are thankful for that, too. I really wish we were going back this time... that will be a separate post...