October 10, 2010 – Back to June

Ok- as promised, more of what happened in June. I wish I remembered it as well as back then, but I’ll do my best…
When we pulled up at the hospital I got out, and clutching my side and crying, made my way inside while DH parked the car. I could hardly talk, I was crying and moaning. The man at check in started to ask what was wrong and then immediately asked “Ma’am, are you pregnant?” How was I gonna answer that? “I think so,” I said. “I took a test this morning and it said I was.” Great. Now I’m the crazy lady who finds out she’s pregnant and immediately goes to the hospital at the first little pain…but this was not little. This was terrifying. All I could think was that something was going wrong and I was losing the babies or it was ectopic or who knows what.
As he was helping me fill out the registration forms, DH came in and a doctor called me back. He said he’d come to the emergency room. I met with the triage nurses and couldn’t even answer them – I was doubled over – then stretching out – all the time crying and screaming. They were not too pleased with me – but honestly there was nothing I could do about it.
I got wheeled to a private ER room and left for some time. The room was gross-it had its own bathroom and there was BLOOD all over the floor. DH kept trying to rub my back and side, but nothing was working. Then the pain would just sorta stop on its own only to come back 15 minutes later just as bad. My doctor wasn’t in that day but another two from the IVF clinic showed up. They were very nice – of course they didn’t know what it was right away. They said it could be ovarian torsion or bleeding in my ovary – as those sometimes happen after IVF, but they’d have to do an ultrasound. I literally waited HOURS for an ultrasound – apparently they only had 1 ultrasound cart and tech for the ER…and this is seriously the BEST hospital in NYC. CRAZY. In the meantime I screamed my head off – they had to close the door on me. They gave me morphine which did NOTHING to help. They didn’t want to give me anything stronger cause they confirmed by blood test that I was pregnant.
Finally the ultrasound tech came and did the ultrasound – blood was flowing into and out of my ovary, so that usually means it wasn’t torsion. Now they were stumped. They decided to admit me. They also wanted a urine sample…yeah, not happening in that blood covered bathroom – so had to walk through the ER to another bathroom w/ a pee cup – oh did I mention I had an IV at this point, OWWW-and an IV pole. When I got back they gave me a drug called Dilauded (can’t spell) which they said in small amounts was ok for pregnancy. Then I waited for my room to be ready. The drugs helped a little – I was no longer SCREAMING – but I was still in pain. I sent DH home to rest, cause he didn’t even have a chair to sit in. I said I’d call him when I got a room. I didn’t get the room till 1 or 2 in the morning – don’t remember. They put me in the labor and delivery wing, which was kinda weird, but I got my own room so that was nice. The beds SUCK there. They constantly move (I guess for circulation/bed sore purposes), so I don’t know how anyone would ever be able to sleep in them. I complained to my nurse, who was very nice. She didn’t know how to turn it off so she unplugged it (don’t know if that was ok), gave me more meds and I sort of fell asleep…
(I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff – sorry. I will post the continuation soon)

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