As some of you probably know from facebook, my surgery last month was canceled. I happened to have an appointment with a hematologist two days before surgery. I had seen him once before because I had been having some unexplained bruising on my legs. It turns out that my blood was too thin, probably because of the aspirin I was taking. The hematologist thought it would be too risky to do surgery with my blood so thin, so he talked to my doctor at the fertility center and they canceled the surgery.
After more testing, the hematologist told me a week later that it was safe to reschedule. I told my other doctor, and they started working on the scheduling. Then a week later, my hematologist decided that my surgery should be postponed again! It has seemed that he has been changing his mind without really looking at all my records/tests. He keeps running the same tests over and over. And there have been several other problems going on with him, that aren't really worth explaining. So I spoke with my doctor at the fertility center and she was very understanding. She has scheduled my surgery for June 24 at 11am. She also got me an appointment with another hematologist this Friday to get a second opinion. The surgery still depends on the hematologist saying it's safe. So we're cutting it pretty close!
Please pray that I will be able to have the surgery next week!
I should be getting some more bloodwork results this week from my first hematologist. I'm hoping that maybe he will clear me for surgery, so we won't have to rely on the new doctor, who may want to do more testing. It's been hard on us (me, especially!) to go back and forth on the surgery, to keep preparing for it and then have it canceled, and we'd really like to get this over with so we can hopefully get pregnant soon!
I'm currently on birth control (sounds crazy, I know!) to allow them to do the surgery at any point, rather than having to wait for certain days in my cycle. The pills are making me very nauseated and anxious every day, but at this point I don't think it's worth trying to find a different one with my surgery (hopefully) only a week away. Please pray that the side effects ease up and that the birth control doesn't have any other adverse effects on me after I quit taking it.
One really good thing that has come out of all this is that the first hematologist found out that I do not actually have one of the blood clotting disorders that we thought I had! Apparently, the high-risk OB misinterpreted the results back in November '08. So I don't actually need to take aspirin. Since I quit taking the aspirin, some of the strange symptoms I've been having had cleared up! So I've wondered if it's possible that maybe the aspirin was playing a part in keeping us from getting pregnant. I'm very glad to learn that it wasn't my hormones that were causing those symptoms all along!
I'll post an update on Friday after my appointment, or sooner if I hear from my first hematologist. Thanks for praying!
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