| Ladies, Thanks for your responses. I wanted to update you on what's been going on.
I told my boss everything this morning. He's got 3 kids, and he's been really supportive before, so I felt I could tell him. I told him how freaked out I was about the loss of symptoms. He told me that his wife and him have three children…but have had 6 pregnancies. He understood my fears.
He let me leave work to go to a walk-in clinic. What a WASTE of time!! For all those of you who have heard about the "free healthcare" in Canada….just remember one thing: You get what you pay for.
I waited over 2 hours to see a doctor at the walk-in clinic (My GP wasn't able to give me an appointment before Tuesday). I waited and waited and then finally the nurse called me in. She wrote down all my symptoms and how I 'lost' them. Then she asked me for a urine sample to do another pregnancy test. I did the test and ten minutes later the doctor walked in and said……wait for it….are you ready?......"Good news. The test is positive. You're not having a miscarriage". I was like "WTF???" Don't you know that even if I was having a m/c, the test would still be positive for several days?!?!?!
Then he said "What do you want, then?" so I told him that I wanted two blood tests…to check my HCG. He told me that he wanted me to wait a MINIMUM of 4 days between the tests. I told him that I'd probably know if I'd miscarried by that point!
Then I told him to check my progesterone. I told him that my cousin is a fertility specialist in a different city, and that she recommended checking progesterone to make sure it was high enough to support a pregnancy…..Wanna know what he said? He said "I don't know how to interpret progesterone…so there's no point putting it on the test".
I let the clinic and just thought "There's nothing to do but wait".
I honestly feel like there's nothing left in me. I don't feel pregnant anymore. Nothing….not even a hint of it. And it all came to a screeching half over a one hour period. If this is what's happening to me…I wish it would just get a move on already... |