Twelve years ago when we got back home from our honeymoon, we decided to
try for a baby. First of all, what were we thinking? Why didn't we think that
we need time to adjust to married life and learning how to live with each
other? I'll tell you what we were thinking-- we thought, "We could be
pregnant with our best friends! Wouldn't that be so much fun?" You
see, my best friend, Jessi, had called us before we left for the honeymoon with
news that she was expecting baby #2.
It didn't happen in our first year or any other
year since. Around year 2, we went to the doctor to try to figure out what was
happening. We had some minor tests run and were told that he had a low count
and I had the estrogen level of a post menopausal woman. Say what?! I was around
23 and didn't have any symptoms of being post menopausal. The doctor gave me
some medicine to take during certain times of the month to see if that would
help things out. He also instructed me to take a certain type of cough syrup
because of effects on mucus. I won't go into too much detail there because
ew.
Well, the Rx and cough syrup didn't help. Next,
the doctor ordered a dye test (I am not very technical when it comes to medical
talk so you are going to have to just love me in spite of it. But I have since
learned that is HSG-- there is a longer name for it but I don't think you
really care about that, am I right?).
The doctor would shoot the dye up my Fallopian tubes
to see if there were any blockages and if there were, perhaps the dye would help
remove them. We got a call the night before the test saying that our insurance
company didn't cover infertility testing so we canceled the test. Somewhere in
there, we had an ultrasound done and the doctor told us that it appeared that
there was a 5 week pregnancy. We were so excited.
I peed on a stick but it was negative. I had a blood test but it was also
negative. We were crushed.
What happened to the 5 week pregnancy? I asked that very question
when I went in for my yearly appointment. The midwife told me that
my body probably recognized it as an unhealthy pregnancy and absorbed it.
We didn't pursue any more fertility treatments at the
time because we felt like we just needed to give it a little more time.
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