Yesterday I was pregnant - I think
And it was fun while it lasted. I kid you not.
I went to Target to buy a pregnancy test. “Somebody just shoot me”, I thought. This is crazy woman behavior. My period may be a little late, but it feels as if it’s just around the corner. Plus, I don’t even know when I ovulated. And I have no pregnancy symptom whatsoever (more to the contrary). No sore boobs, nothing. I haven’t got pregnant in over 2.5 years. I haven’t got pregnant with the help of two IVFs. I have dysfunctional tubes. I have endometriomas. I have Asherman’s. And yet, lovely internet, I bought the test. I haven’t peed on a stick in over a year. I didn’t pee on a stick during my IVFs. I just couldn’t stand the thought of the white space. And yet yesterday evening, I felt compelled to test. I wasn’t even nervous. I didn’t expect to see anything but one lovely pink line. And that’s what I saw – at first. But then a second line appeared. Very, very faint, but definitely visible. Even Mr H saw it (he didn’t understand at all what the significance was). A second line, lovely internet. A fucking second line?! I haven’t seen a second line in years.
However (you knew this was coming, right?), Mr. H made me pee on a stick this morning and there was only a shadow of a shadow of a shadow of a line left. You know the one, the one only I can see. My best guess? A chemical pregnancy. A spark of live. Most likely in my tube anyway. And the waiting for my period continues.
I am not even sure how I feel about all this (can you tell?). It was just too great to be true in the first place. Mr H didn’t want to talk to me about it. He was afraid I would get my hopes up.
Is this my initiation into the world of chemical pregnancies/miscarriages? I just don't know what to think and feel.
3 Comments:
I don't know what to say. My heart hurts for you. Hurts that you're so wounded by this IF crap that a second line wasn't a cause for joy, but a cause to take another one the next day because the first was so unbelievable. Hurts that the line was fainter the next day.
Take care of yourself.
Have you called either your RE or even your OB? When that happened to me after I lost Vivienne, I decided against a blood test for confirmation but I wish I had. No, I don't necessarily want to know that instead of 3 miscarriages, I've had 4, but maybe they would have tested me sooner for different things knowing that there was a pregnancy, chemical or not.
I would definitely let a professional know. It does truly suck that we can't get excited like "normal" women do. Let us know if something happens, OK? I'm sorry.
DD, I called my RE and we decided that I'd go for a blood test tomorrow if there is still something on the test. We'll see.
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