How Do I Stop The Flood?

Today has been a day of decisions and emotions.

I met with a surgeon this morning to see what my options are for my gall stones. There are many risks involved in doing it now and even waiting until later. If I do it now the anesthesia could cause me to go into labor. If that happens they would have to stop the surgery and start giving me medication to stop the labor. If that didn't work and I actually ended up having the baby there isn't much hope of it surviving. It's just too early.

If I wait until later I run the risk of my gall bladder become toxic and leading to pancreatitis which would cause my whole abdominal area to become swollen put me into early labor. Of course the longer I go the larger my uterus gets and the more cramped things get. That would obviously put more pressure on my gall bladder causing more pain.

Now is the best time, in my situation, to have the surgery. My uterus is just barely above my belly button so if we wait any longer it would get more complicated. They do the surgery laporoscopically through the belly button. Unless they end up damaging a vital duct in the process then it becomes major surgery where they have to cut me open just below the rib cage.

I am scheduled to have the surgery next Tuesday. I am of course nervous and afraid that I'm putting the baby in danger. This decision has been a very difficult one and the tears have not stopped since this morning. I have much confidence in the Doctor and feel good about being in his care. He spent about thirty minutes talking with us and letting us know all of our options. He will be joined in the surgery by my OB that will be monitoring the baby. Instead of an outpatient surgery I will be admitted so they can monitor me and the baby.

The Doctor is LDS and told us to pray about this decision and involve our families in the process. It would mean so much to us if you could send up a few prayers on our behalf and for our sweet little angel baby we can't wait to meet.