When It Rains It Pours!
Well, I went a couple of months with absolutely nothing to say or nothing happening… until just this past week. Talk about when it rains it pours!
About four weeks ago I came home from work on a Tuesday and I was feeling sick all day and a horrible headache. Gordon had taken the day off to rest and I asked him if he wanted to get a bite to eat, thinking that this may help me. So we went out to eat and I was feeling a little bit better. We came home and about an hour later I finally threw up, I had been feeling like that the whole day, even before we ate and the nausea was finally gone. I ended up laying on the couch that day unable to get up with a temperature peaking to a 102. So the rest of that week I was completely laid out with the flu. I couldn’t even sit upright in a chair, that is how sick I was! I was finally feeling better on Sunday and I was so extremely happy. I do not remember the last time I was so sick, I never ever wanted to go through that again.
About a week later I woke up one morning with my back hurting me and couldn’t figure out why… it was my lower back and I felt some cramping up towards the front also. I told my manager about it and she told me that it could be a bladder infection. Well, after work on Friday I went down to urgent care to get this checked out. They took my urine sample and then the Dr. came to talk to me. She said my red blood cells were down quite a bit and my white blood cells were really high, the white blood cells mean you’re sick. I explained to her that I had just gotten over a horrible flu so she said that could have been it. She also told me that there were bacteria found in my urine due to an infection and that my pregnancy looked fine…. Wait… back up… did you say pregnancy?! I couldn’t believe it, I started to cry and the Dr. thought I had known and I told her that I didn’t. I told her that I had just had my period 2 weeks before so I had no idea. I told her about the ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy that is in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus) and she suggested that we monitor this closely and I see my OB immediately because there is always a 20% chance it could be another one. So she sent me in to draw blood for my hormone levels and I would have to come back every 48 hours to check on them.
Wednesday I went to see my Dr. and she told me that she was sorry but the pregnancy was not normal and the hormone levels were not rising like they should be. She was afraid that this was another ectopic and that the back pain was probably due to this. I was so devastated and I did not want to believe this for one second. How could God do this to me again, was my first thought. But I immediately started to retract from this thought and thought instead I would pray for a miracle. That I would give it one more blood test and the Dr. would call me back and say it was a miracle that the hormone levels had tripled like they should be! So I begged the Dr. to give it one more day and Gordon and I prayed and cried, prayed and cried for a miracle to happen.
Thursday she called me back and I couldn’t wait to hear the miracle that had happened. Dr. Flores told me that the hormone levels were now at a stand still and it was imperative that I come in and take the shot at the hospital that would dissolve anything that was in my tubes or uterus so I could avoid having surgery again and possibly loosing another fallopian tube or even dying from a rupture. For some reason I was so calm about this and Gordon and I went down to the hospital and waited. They gave me a big shot in each of my butt cheeks and I went on home that day.
I was in somewhat of a depression but slowly God started to speak to my heart and He showed me and I realized that He had indeed done the miracle in my life. He once again saved my life… Last year I was over 3 months along when they found out it was an ectopic pregnancy and the Dr. said it was a miracle that I wasn’t in pain or that it had not ruptured and killed me. This time around… a year later, I went in just for a bladder infection and found out I was pregnant almost 3 weeks before my period was due. I would not have found out till later and it would probably have been too late. So a miracle did happen in my life, maybe not the way that I wanted or had hoped for one to happen but it was what the Lord had planned and it is definitely something to rejoice in. I am alive! I know that my God loves me and wants to protect me and I know without a shadow of a doubt that He wants me to have kids or He wouldn’t have protected my other tube the way He did. Gordon and I are just going to need a little help with the fertility Dr.’s on this one, for some reason my body is not releasing my eggs down properly and they keep getting stuck on the way down and Gordon’s super sperm ends up meeting them half way. Hopefully the fertility Dr. will have something for us to fix this problem, at this time we are willing to try. But I just thank God every day that he preserved me and that He saved me, it is definitely a miracle worth sharing.
About four weeks ago I came home from work on a Tuesday and I was feeling sick all day and a horrible headache. Gordon had taken the day off to rest and I asked him if he wanted to get a bite to eat, thinking that this may help me. So we went out to eat and I was feeling a little bit better. We came home and about an hour later I finally threw up, I had been feeling like that the whole day, even before we ate and the nausea was finally gone. I ended up laying on the couch that day unable to get up with a temperature peaking to a 102. So the rest of that week I was completely laid out with the flu. I couldn’t even sit upright in a chair, that is how sick I was! I was finally feeling better on Sunday and I was so extremely happy. I do not remember the last time I was so sick, I never ever wanted to go through that again.
About a week later I woke up one morning with my back hurting me and couldn’t figure out why… it was my lower back and I felt some cramping up towards the front also. I told my manager about it and she told me that it could be a bladder infection. Well, after work on Friday I went down to urgent care to get this checked out. They took my urine sample and then the Dr. came to talk to me. She said my red blood cells were down quite a bit and my white blood cells were really high, the white blood cells mean you’re sick. I explained to her that I had just gotten over a horrible flu so she said that could have been it. She also told me that there were bacteria found in my urine due to an infection and that my pregnancy looked fine…. Wait… back up… did you say pregnancy?! I couldn’t believe it, I started to cry and the Dr. thought I had known and I told her that I didn’t. I told her that I had just had my period 2 weeks before so I had no idea. I told her about the ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy that is in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus) and she suggested that we monitor this closely and I see my OB immediately because there is always a 20% chance it could be another one. So she sent me in to draw blood for my hormone levels and I would have to come back every 48 hours to check on them.
Wednesday I went to see my Dr. and she told me that she was sorry but the pregnancy was not normal and the hormone levels were not rising like they should be. She was afraid that this was another ectopic and that the back pain was probably due to this. I was so devastated and I did not want to believe this for one second. How could God do this to me again, was my first thought. But I immediately started to retract from this thought and thought instead I would pray for a miracle. That I would give it one more blood test and the Dr. would call me back and say it was a miracle that the hormone levels had tripled like they should be! So I begged the Dr. to give it one more day and Gordon and I prayed and cried, prayed and cried for a miracle to happen.
Thursday she called me back and I couldn’t wait to hear the miracle that had happened. Dr. Flores told me that the hormone levels were now at a stand still and it was imperative that I come in and take the shot at the hospital that would dissolve anything that was in my tubes or uterus so I could avoid having surgery again and possibly loosing another fallopian tube or even dying from a rupture. For some reason I was so calm about this and Gordon and I went down to the hospital and waited. They gave me a big shot in each of my butt cheeks and I went on home that day.
I was in somewhat of a depression but slowly God started to speak to my heart and He showed me and I realized that He had indeed done the miracle in my life. He once again saved my life… Last year I was over 3 months along when they found out it was an ectopic pregnancy and the Dr. said it was a miracle that I wasn’t in pain or that it had not ruptured and killed me. This time around… a year later, I went in just for a bladder infection and found out I was pregnant almost 3 weeks before my period was due. I would not have found out till later and it would probably have been too late. So a miracle did happen in my life, maybe not the way that I wanted or had hoped for one to happen but it was what the Lord had planned and it is definitely something to rejoice in. I am alive! I know that my God loves me and wants to protect me and I know without a shadow of a doubt that He wants me to have kids or He wouldn’t have protected my other tube the way He did. Gordon and I are just going to need a little help with the fertility Dr.’s on this one, for some reason my body is not releasing my eggs down properly and they keep getting stuck on the way down and Gordon’s super sperm ends up meeting them half way. Hopefully the fertility Dr. will have something for us to fix this problem, at this time we are willing to try. But I just thank God every day that he preserved me and that He saved me, it is definitely a miracle worth sharing.