TMI

Yes folks be warned this may be way to much information, and ooky to boot, but I never said this blog was gonna be pretty.

So there.

I was serious about the ooky part. (Roben if your eating something and reading this you might want to put down the sandwich and come back to this later.)

Don't ever say I didn't warn you.

I've had my Period for 35 days

Yep. You read that right.

The monthly visitor has been getting weird for about two years now. I've been having unbelievably heavy longish periods. Ive gone through stretches of 6 to 12 hours of ripping through a pad in less than an hour, Sometimes as little as 45 min. and once or twice as little as 30 min, and throwing blood clots the size of golf balls.

(Hey I told you this was ooky)

Also disturbing and highly impractical.

I've had one ultrasound and they said I had two small fibroids. However, these are small enough that they really should not have be causing all this fuss.

I went to see a gynecologist.

Nice lady. She suggested a few things that I thought I would put off until the summer - just in case things got tricky - so I would have some recovery time that would not interfere with school.

I made an appointment to see my gyno on June 17th

Well, much to my chagrin, things have gotten tricky all on there own. The periods have been getting longer and heaver and then the last came...

And never stopped.

Its been wavering between spotting and hemorrhaging. I've had to go home early from school because despite due diligence I've bled through clothing. I've missed several days of school, and one quiz because I was bleeding so much I wouldn't make it to school without making a mess.

The one good thing is that I haven't had much in the way of cramps.

I started calling my gyno about three weeks ago trying to get an earlier appointment but she was booked solid. Two weeks ago I asked her if I needed to go to the hospital about the damn bleeding. She prescribed me a drug that keeps my body from braking down clots. That at lest had gotten the flood gates under control.

Up until last week despite all of the endless bleeding I've been feeling fine. And then over the long weekend it was like I hit a wall. I was exhausted. No energy. Every time I went up the stairs I was panting, the slightest bit of exertion had me wiped.

I went to my Dr. to have blood work done.

I told her I had been bleeding for 25 some odd days.
She said, "Oh thats not good!"

She called me back to tell me I have Anemia. Apparently the "low end" of OK hemoglobin for a woman is 120.

Mine is 81

The low end of good Iron levels is 20 (and the norm for this can go up to 120)

Mine is 4

So I've been told to triple my intake of iron supplements.

Today I managed to get an emergency appointment with the nice gyno Lady. (Who in my was very very nice, considering that she had been up all night delivering baby's and was running on 30 hours with no sleep when I saw her.)

She is sending me for another ultrasound, and today she took a biopsy from inside the uterus.

And let me tell you, that was NO FUN AT ALL

The pain was like an amazingly intense dreadful localized menstrual cramp.

After she was done, I got horribly woozy. She told me this was a normal reaction, talked me through the worst of it, got me a glass of water and told me to stay lying down as long as I needed.

Holy Crap.

I still feel a little crampy.

We really don't know what is going on yet.

Could be the fibroids, could be peri-menopause. No one has said the "C" word but, yes it could be that too.

Ultrasound on the 12th. Next appointment on the 17th.
Wish me luck.

A Rough Week and a Lovely Surprise

It’s been a bad week for the girls at school.

This week one girl found out that a very good friend of hers is very seriously ill, another girls best friend as lost her father to brain cancer, another girl’s grandmother attempted suicide, and this afternoon we have lost one more student due to family stress.

Its given me the urge to check on people (who might appreciate being checked on)

I called a good friend and got a dose of good news. Her and her husband are expecting there second child, They were trying for a while with no success, and when they gave up - BOOM! Baby!

There aren’t a lot of people that I feel positive about having children, but these two – Such awesome parents.

Thank you my friend for sharing your lovely news with me.