The above link: "My miracle baby" will be necessary for this update.
Once again in my life, I left the doctor’s
office in tears. I kind of hate going to
the doctor here. There are no
appointments and it’s all first come first serve so I have spent countless
hours waiting in line for appointments and insurance questions while everything
has been in Spanish and it’s all been a bit stressful. For the past ten months I have been waiting
to receive a test to see if my left fallopian tube works before having abother
baby, because we know Joaquin was born completely on the right side of my
uterine septum. I was meant to get the
test in MN but ended up sitting alone in a hospital gown afraid of the pain of
the test only to be told my doctor was called into emergency surgery and
couldn’t complete it. Then my family
moved to the Domincan Republic. After insurance leading us to believe they
would pay for this test after 6 months of my arrival here, they now told us
they wouldn’t pay at all because it’s a pre-exisiting condition. Jesus and I decided to foot the bill and my
doctor said I could just show up for the test at 7:30 in the morning and it
would be done. Well I showed up at the
lab and not only did they say I needed an “imaginary” appointment, but they
said the machine was broken. This test
can only be done one day out of the month so now I’m moving onto month 10 of
not getting it done and not knowing what to do in regards to any surgery.
Luckily both the Doctor in Minnesota and the
Doctor in the Domincan Republic recommended the same thing for surgery.
That I do not remove the uterine septum, since I had a successful
pregancy, because at this point it can do more harm than good. They both
suggested I remove the part of the septum that makes my life with Jesus
uncomfortable. You can fill in the
blanks. I decided I really wanted the
recommended surgery but just wanted the tube test first to make sure they
didn’t need to do anything else while they were working on me.
This whole process of any potential surgery is taking
way too long and I'm tired of waiting for when I can even start trying to have
baby number 2. While it's kind of breaking my heart, I know I shouldn’t
complain because Joaquin is the greatest blessing in my life!
So I
emailed my doctor the drama of the visit to the lab for the test (and the drama
of the past 10 months) and suggessted I do everything in the US when insurance
will pay. She said that's fine and maybe I'll have a great pregnancy just like
the last! Can I just say that I love my
doctor here? It’s the medical system
that has problems but not her. She knew
more about my case then my US Doctor and put me at so much ease because it’s so
common here!
If we do
have a baby here, I am frustrated that for every pregnancy appointment, I may be
in line for two or more hours. It’s also scary that we don't have a clear
timeline on when we're moving back to the US but all in all none of these are
excuses to not have another baby. I always dreamed of having five kids
but now that dream has shrunk to three and now with the high risk pregnancies
I'll have from here on out, I don't want to shrink my dream anymore. There
are high risks of pre-term labors and miscarriages with a uterine septum and
while that’s scary, if I had one baby successfully I can have another right?!
Aw Becky that is scary! But I love your faith, and you can definitely have as many babies as you can! The Lord can make a few more miracles happen I think ;)
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