After learning that there was no heartbeat at 12 weeks, I was given about twenty minutes to decide how I wanted to resolve the missed miscarriage. The choices were: (1) go home and do nothing (natural mc); (2) medical management (which after some questioning, I learned basically involved sticking drugs up the whoo-ha to start the mc); and (3) surgery (d&c).
I opted for surgical management because there were no signs that I was going to miscarry naturally and I couldn't bear the thought of drawing out the process any longer. The whole procedure took about nine hours, most of which involved waiting around at the hospital. I was given medical management just prior to the surgery and then went under anesthesia. When I woke up, I started to cry from sadness and relief that the ordeal was over. I wasn't in any physical pain, but the emotional pain was overwhelming. I bled for one day and stayed home for 1-2 days on the couch before venturing out in the world again. I resumed work a week later. This was when the real road to recovery began and it was (and is) a very long one. -@Sadtoday21
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