Monday, November 20, 2006

Laparoscopy Pre-Op

I had an appointment with my doctor today to talk about my upcoming diagnostic laparoscopy. Although I have an "unremarkable" uterus (this is good) and my hormones and ovaries are fine, there's an issue with both my fallopian tubes. The laparoscopy will use a camera to determine the exact extent of the issue. If there's any non-trivial blockage, I've asked the doctor to go ahead and remove the tubes. There's no reason to leave them in if they're damaged, and having them taken out would completely take away any risk of ectopic pregnancy, which I'm absolutely terrified of.

After the laparoscopy, I could find out that my reproductive system is just totally normal, or else that I'm incapable of natural pregnancy. If it's the latter, there won't be much of an impact. But I don't know what I'd do if I find out I'm normal. I told my husband and mother in that case I'm leaning towards birth control for a year or until a first adoptive placement gets settled. My husband is very intelligent but handicapped at "emotional multitasking" or thinking in two different ways at the same time, so his only response to that was "we'll just take it as it comes and see what happens". I guess this is the drawback of deciding on adoption before my infertility is 100% determined.

Otherwise it was a pretty good day. We had an amazing rabbit stew for dinner at my mother's and are settling in to watch "Heroes" tonight.

3 comments:

Maggie said...

Take good care of yourself. I hope that you're able to find peace with whatever the procedure determines.

Maggie said...

p.s. I'm watching Heroes for the first time tonight. I'm so confused. Why does the cheerleader's dad hate her so much?

atlasien said...

Thanks Margaret! Recap: The cheerleader's dad (he's actually her adoptive dad) doesn't hate her at all. By grounding her he was trying to save her from being killed that night, because he had information from the painter that could paint the future that she would be killed that night at homecoming.

He's a very shady guy, but so far it seems he loves his daughter. A few episodes back he arranged an awkward reunion with her first parents who must have been actors hired to play the role. Her real first parents are other people with special powers who died.