So my appointment yesterday…I am going to start by saying that Mike and I had already decided, even before we didn’t see a heartbeat, that this OB wasn’t going to be a keeper. We wanted to switch to an OB Dr. Hirisk had worked with on the regular, and he’d never even spoken with this…
Where Do We Go From Here?
May 24th, 2012Comments: 31
Now that it’s been a little more than a week since we found out about the baby, we’ve come to accept what happened and started to look toward the future. We want to try again, but for us it isn’t as simple as just trying again. As Dr. Hirisk told us, “Heather’s medical history is…
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My physical recovery from the D&C has been alright. I feel like I’ve been in a wrestling match or a fist fight, just sore all over. The fluctuating hormones have given me bad headaches, and my lungs have only just recovered from the anesthesia. The bruises and puncture wounds from my Lovenox shots are taking forever…
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Inevitable
May 21st, 2012Comments: 69
I think part of me always knew this wasn’t going to happen. Everything felt different than with the first two. My breasts weren’t tender, my skin was bad, my nausea wasn’t as severe. “Maybe it’s a boy!” My family said helpfully, hopefully. Maybe. But I knew something was off. We saw Dr. Hirisk for an…
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A Long Day
May 18th, 2012Comments: 84
Hi Everyone, Heather had her D&C today, and, as her OB told me in the waiting room after the surgery was finished, all went well. “All went well,” of course, is a relative term in this circumstance, as she was talking about removing what Heather and I hoped was going to be our sweet little…
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