Hooray for checkup time!

I normally don't get so excited for a dr. appointment. But tomorrow is my checkup from the D&C so I should find out if everything is normal as far as that goes. And hopefully (crossing my fingers very hard) she will say it is okay to have sex. I am dying! It has been so hard this last week and a half to not have sex. I mean I feel wonderful and I am not bleeding, so that makes it super hard to not have sex. After not getting to hardly at all in the last couple months because of the bleeding, I am frustrated! LOL. Plus how can one get pregnant when one can't have sex?? So Donny might be getting attacked when he gets home from work Thursday morning! Good thing it is Thanksgiving and I don't have to go to work! My plans are to stay in bed until about noon and then get up to shower before going to Thanksgiving dinner at 2 pm. And I don't plan on doing much sleeping! LOL. If she says I can't have sex then I will still stay in bed until noon...but only to sleep so that I don't think about the fact that I still can't have sex!

Yesterday was my nephew Adam's second birthday. It's so hard to believe that he is already two. I mean it feels like I was just in the delivery room watching him make is debut into the world...and now he is two! He is very in love with anything Elmo right now. So I got him "Check up Time Elmo". It is so cute! And I got it during the awesome sale at K-Mart over the weekend. It was a steal! And he loves it! So now I am on a mission to find him more adorable Elmo stuff for Christmas. I was thinking a bedroom set, but I think my brother and sister-in-law are going to do that. But at the price of that stuff we could probably split it.

I can't believe all the new babies on pg.org. It is so heart-warming to see the pictures of the babies born to ladies I have been corresponding with since I started there almost three years ago!

Well I best get back to work!

~Melody

The Dreaded D&C...

Well the experience wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Nor has the recovery. I was so petrified going to the hospital on Friday. I was taken into a room and had to change out of my clothes and into one of those wonderful open back gowns! Then the nurses (who were just awesome) went over things with me and took my vitals. The IV didn't really hurt at all going in and the bruise is minor from it. Then another nurse came in and said that someone has been in looking for me already. And I was thinking who in the heck would have come to the hospital looking for me before I even got there at 7 am?!?! They said your mother-in-law, or step-mom, or maybe it was your step mother-in-law? Well considering I have all three...I had no idea which one. Until they said she was in the ER with dad. Well since Donny's dad is the only sick Dad I have I figured it was him. And it was. So of course my blood pressure was high when they took it after telling me that. So Donny and my friend went down to see what was wrong. Then Donny and his step mom come to my room and tell me that he is okay. Apparently he was throwing up blood so she called the ambulance. Well after some tests they concluded he was constipated so severely it was backed up into his colon. So they were going to treat and release him. So I relaxed. The nurses then told me I didn't have to have the local anesthetic after all, that my lungs were clear so I could have the general! Hooray! I was so relieved. The nurses were wonderful before and after the procedure. I know they made the experience so much easier.

Then they took me to the surgery room. They don't even let you walk...they just wheeled me there on my bed. I was pretty nervous going in this huge white room with all the lights. And man was it cold! But shortly after getting on the surgery bed they covered me with this warm toasty heated blankets! That was awesome. The Anesthesiologist was really nice and made me feel not so scared. Before I even know it was feeling groggy and next thing I knew I was back in my room. Everything went so fast. And boy was that anesthetic good stuff. I didn't feel any pain. After they let me get dressed I found out that they had admitted my father-in-law after all, so we went down to his room to check on him. The nurses were in there asking him a lot of questions. I was just standing there listening. My step mother-in-law was sitting in one chair and the nurse in the other. Well my step MIL asks me if I want to sit down. And I said no I am fine. She asks me again and this gets the nurses attention, who then notices my hospital bracelet. So my step MIL tells her I had a D&C. She says oh yesterday (thinking I stayed over night and was just released). No this morning. So the nurses freak out and make me sit down in this recliner. Then they get me apple juice and some of those great heated blankets! But honestly I was feeling no pain. I just wanted to make sure my FIL was okay before I went home. We went out for breakfast afterwards and got home about 11:30. I slept pretty much all day. And the did nothing the rest of the weekend. I didn't even leave the house. So today is the test of how things are. And so far I am great. The only pain I had was some mild cramping over the weekend was if I sat up for too long at a time (I was working on making my Christmas cards). Reclining seemed to be the most comfortable. I was bloated but that seems to be gone and my abdomen isn't hard anymore. Now the test will be to see how my next period is. Hopefully normal...

~Melody

Well I wish this post was as happy as last one. AF only stayed away a short 4 days after last post. And then she came back full force and horrible again. So I went back to the doctor. AF has since left again. Tomorrow morning bright and early I am having a D&C in hopes that cleaning everything out will keep my next AF from being so bad. Also so they can test the lining and make sure there isn't anything abnormal. I am really nervous about the whole thing. Even more so now, because I have a cold which means they will only being doing a local anesthetic instead of a general anesthetic. I didn't want to be aware of what they were doing at all! I am trying to stay calm because if I don't then my IBS will flare up and that will be even worse! After a few weeks (and I am healed from the D&C) they will do a HSG to see if my tubes have any blockages. That's only if the D&C works and the bleeding during AF goes back to normal. If it doesn't they will do a LAP to check for endometreosis or other problems. So this is just the start of the testing and procedures. I wish they would have done them a lot sooner! It's been almost three years!

Well I best get back to work and try not to think about it so I don't make myself sick..

~Melody