Hemorrhage Puns

I’ve been reflecting on this event a lot the past week. With each passing day it bothers me more and more. Maybe because it puts in to perspective just how little my life mattered to my parents or maybe how deep their brainwashing was.

I had just turned 12 years old 2 weeks before the accident. I was very tall and pretty much full grown at this point and the Doctors at the hospital would go on to say that it was my 5’11 inch stature that saved my life alone, and that he would have expected any other 12 year old to die.

That day I had spent most of the time playing with my friend M. M and her family were witnesses from our congregation. Our parents friendships went back to their high school days and long before either of us were born. After a full day of playing M asked if I wanted to spend the night and of course I did. After getting my parents approval, M’s dad L, drove us to my house 3 minutes away to get some clothes and say hi to my parents. It was bookstudy night but I was allowed to skip because it was convention week and I would go with M’s family the next night. We had Monday and Tuesday bookstudy groups in our congregation.

As I was getting ready to leave my mom told me I needed to call her the second I got back to their house and let her know I was there. I would later find out this was because my mom smelled alcohol on L’s breath and Was concerned but didn’t want to make an issue of it. L drove a pick up truck and let M and I ride in the bed on the way to my house and on the way back to theirs. He had been working on a landscaping project and had 2 railroad ties in the bed at the time. On the way back to their house he decided to take us four wheeling on a bunch of dirt mounds that were being used to create a divide along the local highway, and then continued to play dodging cars on the streets back to their house. The railroad ties swerved around in the bed during this time.

Less than two blocks from their home I was changing my position in the back as he either went to dodge another car or changed his mind about making a sharp turn onto a different street and I went flying over the backend of the pick up truck and into the street. He drove around the block while I was unconscious in the street and the first recollection I had was of L and M asking me if I was OK and loading me back into the bed of the pickup truck. Then L brought me to their house and had me lay on the couch. I was screaming and crying in agony and starte

Wow, this birth story got long! The TLDR version is that I had twin girls just over a week ago, and we’ve been home since the day after delivery. The delivery itself had two parts - a very easy vaginal birth with two healthy babies, and then a second part with severe postpartum hemorrhage. Thankfully, I came through healthy and overall think of the delivery experience as positive. All is well and we're happily finding our groove with the two newest family members.

BACKGROUND ON TWO PRIOR VAGINAL INDUCTIONS AND THE PLAN FOR THIS PREGNANCY

I've had two prior IVF pregnancies with successful vaginal inductions. I was hoping to have a vaginal delivery this time, too. My first delivery was an induction at 41wk. My son arrived two days later at 11 lbs. I pushed for only an hour and had a second degree tear that felt fine the next day. Still, he had a temporary arm palsy from traction on the nerves next to his neck (brachial plexus). Thankfully the arm palsy resolved within a da, but it could have been permanent, and those hours before resolution were scary. In my next pregnancy, my daughter was induced at 39w to avoid the potential for her being so large. I pushed for four minutes and she was born at 8 lbs 4 oz,. Again I felt normal after, except that I leaked urine pretty constantly for a few weeks, even while not sneezing/coughing/straining. The leaking resolved eventually, except while jogging, but I could get by then with a pad. All of this made me a bit nervous for a vaginal delivery with twins, but my urogynecologist said that vaginal vs c-section would make no difference for my pelvic floor now, I’ll likely need surgery some day regardless. So in this pregnancy, I was hoping for another vaginal delivery for the pain-free recovery. I was thrilled when both twins went head down.

I wanted to induce at 39w, but with twins, the risk of stillbirth starts increasing earlier. All of the MFMs who I consulted recommended going no further than 38+6. One MFM even advised me to induce in week 37 due to my AMA (41 years), gestational diabetes (well controlled with a continuous glucose monitor), IVF status, and the fact that one twin was smaller than the other - consistently 14th-18th percentile on her growth scans starting at 28w, compared to the other baby at 77-78th. Having a smaller baby did seem odd given the size of her twin and my first two deliveries, but the peanut passed all of her NSTs and kept her growth curve, so other MFMs felt comfortable with induc

today dad fainted as his bp incerased couple days ago and he didn't fent for long he is in his fifties

TW: blood, lots of blood

Today was the scariest day of my life. 6 days post-op after a c-section (making me an r/predaddit grad a second time around!), my wife began to bleed heavily and pass these huge clots. Turns out it was postpartum hemorrhaging, and because of COVID I couldn't even be there in the ER with her. The whole time I wish I knew something, anything, about what I could expect. So I decided to write some things down in hopes of helping the next dad.

**Disclaimer: I'm not qualified to give medical advice. This is based purely on my own personal experience and I am not a medical professional**

Step 0: Have your support system lined up! If I didn't have someone to watch the newborn and toddler, this would have been an even more awful day.

Step 1: Call 911, don't drive her yourself. We were debating, and only decided on calling 911 because I was too nerve-wracked to drive. But I'm so glad I did! Because, at the time, she was bleeding a lot, and they had me lay her on her back and do a fundal massage (massage the uterus until it felt hard like a grapefruit). Though it was the most horrifying thing I've ever done (I'll never forget my wife's screams), it stopped the bleeding until the paramedics could come. Honestly, if we had driven she probably would have bled out on the way there because being in a seated position would have been the worst idea!

Step 2: Make sure the get OB involved right away. Our OB had told us to call Labor and Delivery if she started bleeding, but there was no room in L&D and ER was like, "No, this is an ER problem - we'll take her." Well, we both distinctly remember the OB emphasizing to not go to ER and only go to L&D so I called the OB on call and apparently nobody had informed them she was there. What the FUCK?! When OB did get there, they told her they only came because I called "in a panic" (like, how else was I supposed to feel) and they yelled at the nurses for not calling them in right away.

Step 3: Cry. But pull over when you do so you can still see. There's no shame in crying, dads!

Step 4: If breastfeeding, plan getting pumped milk (or, at the very least, make sure they give her a breast pump so she doesn't end up with mastitis on top of everything). We ended up having close neighbor friends go on milk runs -- it was not as easy as it should have been, so send them with two adults so one can wait in the car and the other can run in and figure out where the milk i

I wanted to share my story in case anyone else is wondering about pregnancy while being on blood thinners after a clot.

TL;DR: Pregnancy is possible. It's more difficult, requires many more appointments and monitoring, and won't be easy. There's added risks on the back end as well (mine was extremely rare). The good news is that baby is happy and healthy!

In 2019, I had a DVT and PE. My husband and I had just started trying to have a baby so that was an unwelcome setback. We had to pause for 6 months while I healed and started on eliquis.

Eliquis is not safe for pregnancy, so as soon as my pulmonologist cleared me, we switched to Lovenox. This was a pain in the ass because not being currently pregnant, my insurance did not want to cover it at the dosage he recommended (standard dose is usually 40mg once a day -- regardless of the patients weight). Because of my risk factor (Prothrombin II mutation) my pulmonologist wanted me on therapeutic dosing which is dosed by weight and given twice daily. We fought with the insurance for almost 3 months but they relented.

Unfortunately I experienced two miscarriages prior to becoming successfully pregnant in March of this year. That was a side effect I did not expect nor know about; blood clotting disorders greatly increase the risk of miscarriage :(

I spent the entirety of pregnancy worried about this because of my prior losses and the added risk factors that my blood clotting disorder brought to the table (not to mention Covid and all of that as well).

An added wrench, the Maternal Fetal Medicine doctor I was seeing didn't agree with my pulmonologist and believed that my dose was too high and was too much of a bleeding risk if I were to go into spontaneous labor. This kicked off a month-long rigamarole where I got 3rd opinions from a hematologist who also agreed with the MFM and told me that I may not need to be on lifelong anti-coagulation.

After all this I agreed to diminish my dose to about half of what my pulmonologist would have liked, but still dosed 2x daily (something between prophylaxis and therapeutic dosing).

Labor approached. We discussed switching to Heparin at 36 weeks and inducing at 39 weeks. The MFM said that switching to Heparin can be squirrely to dial in, and my OB agreed with that so I stayed on Lovenox and prayed to god that I did not go into early labor. Granted, this would not really have increased the risk of labor complications, it would only have prevented me from getting pain co

My sisters husband is about 5’7, 40 years old,190-200 lbs, non smoker, casual drinker. He had a intracranial hemorrhage on Tuesday and had to be put in an induced a coma. They did the surgery and they said it was a success and that they didn’t see any abnormal blood vessels. They took him off the induced a coma and he was fine for the day, the doctor said things are looking very positive. They said the blood didn’t seep into the brain and had no brain swelling. He now has a fever + pneumonia (and back into the induced a coma and is being treated for it) and we don’t know how to take this. I’ve read that people do get fevers post op. But they said that he has an infection from throwing up and some throw up entering his lungs. Are the chances of him recovering higher because he’s younger? Is there even a chance of recovery when this is all happening at once? Thank you for taking the time to read this.

A few weeks ago, my mom was moved to a nursing facility in northern Michigan after spending a month in the hospital recovering from and (being monitored following) brain surgery to repair a rupture to an aneurysm nobody knew existed. I'm really lucky she's still alive, but she has serious cognitive damage, and requires full-time care.

Early this morning, she fell out of her bed in the nursing facility and smashed her forehead against the floor. The resulting wound required sutures and has resulted in considerable bruising and swelling. I have no idea if there is any effected damage to her already-recovering brain. The facility has since lowered her bed, and placed padding around it. My first thought was "maybe there should be beds with sides" but what do I know?

Is this actionable? My brother and I both immediately felt as though this was legally unacceptable, but we recognize that we're already very emotional and raw right now. Any legal advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm exactly a week out from the beginnings of the "real" part of my 2nd miscarriage and really struggling today. In July, I had a miscarriage at 10w5d and suddenly started hemorrhaging after a few hours of intense pain. My husband drove me to the ER, where after a few hours, I passed out from hemodynamic instability while trying to pee and suddenly passing huge blood clots. I received an unit of blood, and cytotec to try to get the rest of the tissue out to stop the bleeding. Bleeding finally stopped but my hemocrit was still dangerously low and I couldn't stand up without my BP dipping and heart racing, so I was admitted and given another unit of blood. Everyone treated this as a freak thing and we should wait 3 months and try again. We waited three months and got pregnant again quickly.

Due to my history, I was having US every 10 days or so (with mixed news every time) and this last one at 10w2d on January 13 we no longer had a heartbeat and fetal size was smaller than previously. I was scheduled for a DNC last Thursday morning in the clinic because it was going to be January 25th until we could get an OR for one with general anesthesia due to COVID short staffing. Last Wednesday, while my husband was picking up my prescriptions for the DNC and some overnight pads, I suddenly had terrible, writhing on the bathroom floor pain. By the time he got back, I was ok, bleeding through regular pads at about one an hour but feeling ok enough to eat dinner. I only needed to make it 10 hours or so to the DNC. We went to bed and while I was laying there, I suddenly start gushing everywhere. Blood soaked through my pajamas and the towel I'm laying on in about 20 minutes. We drive to the ER, my husband is asked to leave due to COVID .

For better or for worse, I see the triage nurse within a few minutes and she puts me in a wheelchair and they put me in a bed immediately. I get an EKG and they are concerned. OB comes and she does a pelvic and finds tissue stuck to my os, just like last time. I get some heart drugs in my IV. Because I ate dinner, they don't want to do an emergency DNC until the morning. I go for an ultrasound and while there, I pass huge blood clots into a bedpan (I refused to use the bathroom, knowing I passed out last time). OB decides that while we wait, lets try cytotec. I ask for pain meds. She forgets to order them. My heart enzymes are high normal, so no heart attack and maybe the anemia and blood loss and pain are causing the abnormal EKG.

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I have a healthy 16 month old now and want to start trying for another in January. There are days when I think about how hard pregnancy was for me - in particular the SCH. Mine happened in a really traumatic way. I was in a different state to attend and present at a work conference (11 wks pregnant at the time)

As soon as I got up to speak during the conference, I felt a gush come out and I naively thought I was peeing myself. I continued to present until I felt another gush happen. I wouldn’t let myself look down until the q&A portion and when I did I saw drops of blood. When I sat back down with the panel of presenters up front, I had to find a way to get my husband’s attention so that we could get the hell out of there. We were able to go to another room that was empty and I just started crying thinking I miscarried - in Front of other colleagues.

After being taken out on an stretcher (and covering my face because of how humiliated I was that this was Happening to me in public), i went to the emergency room.

I know that I am one of the Lucky ones who got to find out that this was a SCH and not a miscarriage. I still wrestle from the trauma of how it happened and feeling like I could not trust my body.

I’m writing this in part to try to shed some of this trauma, so that it doesn’t follow me if I am lucky to get pregnant again. Note: also going to therapy to process this

22 y/o male, 5’11”, 180lb with history of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and associated stage 3 liver fibrosis. Also abnormal neurological findings on physical exam.

I had a brain MRI this morning because for months I’ve been having a ton of involuntary muscle spasms and numbness in my limbs. My neurologist did a physical exam and found some abnormalities that include a positive babinski sign on my left foot, hyperreflexia, and fine tremors in the hands and left foot. So, he ordered the MRI.

I got the results just now and they sound kind of scary, but my follow up with the neurologist isn’t for 3 weeks. Can someone help me interpret these? Is it urgent? A potential brain hemorrhage sounds scary and I’m not sure what steps I should be taking (if any).

Results: “A circumscribed 0.8cm T2 hypointense T1 hyperintense oval mucosal lesion is visualized in the posterior nasopharynx. This finding is nonspecific although it’s signal characteristics would be atypical for a Tornwaldt cyst. Perhaps it represents internal hemorrhage. Recommend clinical correlation. Can consider correlation with visualization. Can also consider short-term imaging follow-up to ensure stability.

Thanks in advance

Hello everyone! It’s time for me to leave this sub but first I wanted to share my story, as I’ve found others helpful. I’ll try and keep it concise, my baby boy was born a few weeks ago and I delivered in Vancouver, BC (for other Canadian mamas!) I was under true care of midwives for the duration as well as for the delivery.

My pregnancy was uneventful and then at 36 weeks I was diagnosed with hypertension and put on meds to control it as well as twice weekly fetal monitoring and ultrasounds to monitor baby. I was also told I’d be induced at 38 weeks.

I had a membrane sweep on December 30 and I barely felt it. On January 1st I went in for my first Cervidil application, came back on January 2nd for the second Cervidil, and then on the 3rd was given gel as my cervix was finally almost ready. On January 4 I went in at 730 am and my cervix was ready, but they did not have staff to start the IV oxytocin drip. We were sent home and then called back at 10:30 pm to start the induction/birth.

The drip was started around midnight and they broke my water at 3 am. The contractions got really painful, I tried laughing gas but it did not help and I ended up throwing up. I then asked for the epidural at 5 am. Receiving the epidural while having contractions was the worst thing about my experience. I learned that I could have had it at any time and wished I had asked sooner!

Baby boy was then born at 12:38 pm and he got “stuck” on the way out. This caused him to be born stressed and breathing rapidly with suspected nerve damage to his shoulder. He was immediately taken to the NICU for monitoring and I only got to hold him for about one minute after birth. I was stitched up (I had a very small tear at the base of my vagina and one near my clitoris that didn’t need stitches.) I was released as everything looked okay and went to join baby in the NICU.

About two hours later I was soaking through the pads, fainted twice, and a “code pink” was called. My uterus was filling up with blood clots and 3 different OBGYN’s came to remove them. They eventually removed 2 litres of blood clots (I lost 2.5 litres of blood in total including birth) from my uterus as well as a few tiny pieces of placenta that was causing the bleeding. Luckily I did not need surgery, but I did have to stay on another ward overnight while my partner stayed in the NICU with our baby. This was horrible, I cried all night without them.

We’re all doing well now, with no concerns for baby boy or me. Beca

22F 5'2", 160lbs, no current mediacations, non-smoking.

I have never seen anything like these on my nails before. I heard they are typically caused by trauma, but wanted to see if I should contact a doctor. I noticed them distinctly on one nail about 2 weeks ago but now notice it faintly on 4 other fingernails.

Nails on Left Hand

Note: I started using gel gloss nail stickers around October. When I first used them, they were often hard to peel off and caused my nails to become flaky and brittle afterward. Could this have also caused the marks on my nails?

I also wonder if it may be a sign of nail psoriasis. I do have some skin thickening under both of my thumbnails. I know this could also be caused by nail-biting, and I was a chronic nail bitter for many years. However, the skin thickening appeared after I had already stopped biting my nails. I have noticed it for around a year now. Thumb Nail

Thank you in advance!

I’m 16 weeks & 1 day. Yes, I’m being heavily monitored & have went to the doctor over this. I’ve been dealing with this for almost a month & it has been insane.

I’ve had to quit my job over it. I worked a very physically demanding job. I’m on pelvic rest, I’m not allowed to lift more than 15lbs & can not have sex.

I’m not allowed to strain at all, doctor told me to start taking stool softener so I do not strain while shitting. The stool softener is making me shit my brains out.

I can not wait for this to be over. The hemorrhage has shrunk but there is still a pocket of blood in there that they said needs to come out. So I’m just hoping this all comes to an end soon. I’m going stir crazy.

Study: 1 in 100 hospitalized with COVID-19 will suffer life-threatening brain complications

Chris Melore and StudyFinds.org via Nexstar Media Wire 8 hours ago

CHICAGO, Ill. (StudyFinds.org) – As COVID-19 variants bring renewed fears of the pandemic strengthening again, a new study finds those who end up in the hospital face a one-percent chance of suffering life-changing brain disorders as a result. Researchers with the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) say one in 100 hospitalized COVID patients will experience severe complications in the central nervous system.

The new study finds these complications include strokes, brain hemorrhages, and other life-threatening conditions such as brain inflammation.

“Much has been written about the overall pulmonary problems related to COVID-19, but we do not often talk about the other organs that can be affected,” says study lead author Scott H. Faro, M.D., FASFNR, director of Neuroradiology/Head & Neck Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University, in a media release. “Our study shows that central nervous system complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in this devastating pandemic.”

COVID-19 in Arkansas: Active cases, hospitalizations continue upward trend Dr. Faro took a deeper look at the problems COVID-19 can cause in the brain after discovering that previous research had only studied a small number of cases showing central nervous system dysfunction. His team examined nearly 40,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 11 hospitals across the United States and Europe. All of the patients entered hospitals between September 2019 and June 2020 and had an average age of 66 years-old.

Strokes and brain bleeding are common complications Researchers note that most of the patients complained of confusion or an altered mental status during their trip to the emergency room. Another symptom many patients reported was fever. Study authors also found that a majority of the group had either high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes — pre-existing conditions which have strong links to fatal complications among COVID patients.

Overall, researchers discovered that 1.2 percent of all patients suffered from central nervous system complications.

“Of all the inpatients who had imaging such as MRI or a CT scan of brain, the exam was positive approximately 10% of the time,” Dr. Faro reports. “The incidence of 1.2% means that a little more than one in 100 patients admitted to the hospit

I was reading graduation posts obsessively after 36 weeks so I guess I'll share!

I had a very painful pregnancy and I was so ready for baby to come. I was going to wait for labor to come by itself but when they offered an elective induction I went ahead and said yes. I didn't want to get an epidural but at the same time I was having so much pain.

Day 1 when I got to the hospital i was actually 1-2cm dilated on my own and they gave me miso to soften my cervix more. Turns out some of the lightening crotch and cramps actually were contractions! Day 2 they eventually used a cooks balloon (two saline balloons on either side of the cervix) to help squish my cervix essentially. Then I really started contractions but once I dilated and the balloons fell out, I stopped for a while which made me grumpy.

Oh boy. Once the real contractions started I was really gonna lose it. I had wanted an unmedicated birth, but once the contractions were coming every 2-3 minutes and lasting a minute, I couldn't take it. I tried a little fentanyl but that felt like it was doing nothing. These weren't even pitocin contractions! I ended up getting an epidural which I was bummed about but I didn't feel like I was gonna make it otherwise.

Unfortunately the epidural stopped contractions so they started pitocin but I slept fantastic. Day 3 I felt intense pressure on my butt and I was finally ready to push! I couldn't feel a lot but it was still intense. Luckily I had some strength in my legs and I was able to push in all 4s and sideways. I pushed for like an hour and baby was out!!

This is where things get scary. My CNM removed some uteine clots but said I was good. I went to pee after they took the epidural out and there was SO MUCH BLOOD!! They still took me to the post labor unit because apparently that was kinda normal.

Then I went to pee again with the RN in post labor and it was like the floodgates broke. I started getting sooo lightheaded and the RN pulled the the cord on the wall. I was like oh shit this is not a good sign!!! I passed out forward onto the nurses on the toilet and somehow they woke me up with ammonia and got me into bed. Then an OB had to come in and scoop out blood clots with his hand. That was by far the most painful part of birth. I hadn't cried during anything up until then but he put his whole hand inside my uterus. They gave me fentanyl but it didn't make it not hurt. I was holding onto my husband and just screaming.

Luckily after that the bleedin

I’ve been my mothers caretaker for the past decade and she has completely depended on me when it comes to managing her medications, food, showering and any other tiny menial task that she couldn’t do for herself. I have had to be strong for her for so long, but right now I feel like a little kid. I’ve never felt as scared in my life as I do right now. I feel like when I was a child and wanted my mommy when I didn’t like being alone at night, as silly and embarrassing as that sounds. Imagine the gut sinking horrible feeling you would experience if you dropped your wedding ring down the sewer. I feel that sensation constantly and it won’t go away.

She lost her eyesight two years ago and her memory’s been going to for quite a while. This past few weeks she kept telling me over and over again “I just want to get my brain on my eyes fixed” and wish that could have happened. I love my mom more than anything in the world and all I’ve wanted for so long was for her to get better and be happy. I feel so bad for her, I know she didn’t want to die.

Have any of you experienced anything like this in life and how did you manage?

I really dithered about posting this but I found it helpful to read others experiences so I hope this maybe helps someone too!

I had a very enjoyable, uncomplicated pregnancy. I chose to be followed by my (now) family doctor who has received additional training to have birthing privileges, not an OB. This decision meant I would give birth at a hospital that didn’t have a NICU, but despite its small size, I felt was more up to date with its treatment than the bigger centres. At my 39 week visit, we made the decision to electively induce. This was for a couple reasons: the first being my doctor stating that we’ve worked so hard for this baby, there was nothing gained to wait longer to see if things started on their own (risks actually increased slightly). The second (and far more important reason) was because both my doctor and anesthesiologist were going away for summer holidays a few days later and so if I’d not gone into labour by then, I’d have to go to an entirely different hospital an hour away with no familiar faces versus the one ten minutes from my house. That was not something I was willing to do, as my doctor had been with us since day one and was so invested, and my local hospital has a small, personalized two bed birthing unit vs the big hospital where you’re just another number.

On Tuesday, we went to the hospital at 8 am. It was really fun and relaxed- most of the staff are our coworkers and so it was a really nice welcoming feel to be walking in to the hospital. We did not tell family we were inducing, just one friend that was on-call to take over looking after our cats/dogs/horses when things progressed.

We got checked in and started out with a baseline NST so they could get an idea of what baby’s heart rate liked to be. We also discovered that I was having small contractions- what I’d been calling Braxton Hicks ones because it just felt like tightening to me. It was really neat to hear the heartbeat that way and for that long, and Mr. Blue had fun learning how the monitors worked from the nurses. After the NST, my doctor came in and did a quick ultrasound to make sure baby was still head down, did a vaginal exam to confirm my cervix hadn't changed (it hadn’t) and then inserted the first Cervidil (which we had decided on as our first step at my last prenatal appointment). I started at a Bishop score of 0 (cervix high, firm, closed and posterior, no effacement, -3 fetal station) and my goal was to get to a Bishop score of 6 before he sta

On Sunday at 5:30pm, I started feeling period-like cramps that were slowly increasing in intensity and duration. I had a planned c section booked for Wednesday, but after my mom’s urging I went in to get assessed at 7:30pm. L&D determined I was contracting every 2.5 minutes and my cervix was soft but not dilating. I had a marginal placenta previa (1.4cm from internal cervical OS) plus a previous c section for a breech baby. I requested another c section. Since I had eaten at 5:30pm, anesthesia booked surgery for 1:30am (8 hours later). I laboured in L&D for several hours but it never got to the point of needing pain meds.

At 1:00am, a flurry of activity started. I had filled out my consents, answered all the medical history questions, and changed into a gown. The nurse asked if I had any special requests for the birth - taking pictures when baby is being born, and I wanted to see my placenta. I was shaved and then given a disgusting shot of something to reduce the stomach acids during surgery. My husband gowned up. We walked to the OR, which was a little surreal. Random observation that it’s really cold in the OR. I asked the anesthesiologist why and she said it’s to reduce bacterial growth. The more you know.

Random tidbit, my anesthesiologist ended up being my parents neighbour. She just happened to be the one on shift out of 30 doctors. She was also there for my daughter’s delivery.

When I got into the OR, there’s a lot of activity, people telling me who they are and what their role is. Setting up equipment, drapes, getting monitors on, etc. I had a spinal done and it felt like nothing. My egg retrievals were way worse, lol. The spinal is the strangest feeling. From nipples down, I felt warm and tingly. Sensation of touch and pressure is there but not pain. The team asked if we knew the baby’s sex (no), so they asked how we wanted to find out.

I was laid down and they got to work. It was determined that I had quite a bit of scar tissue from my first section. It took much longer to get through it all than it did my first time. It was also very uncomfortable for me. It was way more than a little jostling. I did not enjoy the actual surgery. My jaw was chattering like crazy. Anesthesia said it was from labouring before surgery. At some point my blood pressure dropped and I felt really dizzy, but anesthesia was all over it and I felt better right away. If you have any sensations that you don’t care for, speak up ASAP. They have all kinds of me