I wanted to update you all about last weeks doctor's appointments for me and the baby.
Well, the first appointment was to meet with the neurosurgeon at UK who will take care of the baby once she is born. He was all gloom and doom talking about shunts, retardation, etc.
When we got to the car Toddles started crying-it was that demoralizing.
I'm so afraid that the incompetence of the support staff at UK will kill me-literally! And no this is not my normal pregnancy irrationality at work.
The doctors there are supposed to be world class but the support staff never seems to know what is going on and the atmosphere is just so chaotic and disorganized. Just so you know, when I mention my reluctance about going to UK to any of my physicians or any of my mom's physicians they readily agree that UK has big problems in that area. My only guess is UK's problems stem from being run by the government(with all of the nepotism and cronyism issues that go with it.)
The next appointment was the high risk ob, Dr. M.
His attitude is so completely different from the UK doctor.
He keeps telling us that this menengocil is very tiny, has not grown in size with the baby(who is around 3lbs 10oz in the healthy normal range for her age). The cyst/spina bifida is still very small at 1 centimeter.
He also looked at her head, neck and brain area and he doesn't see any thing to indicate that she will need a shunt, this was what he had told us the last time too.
He told us that we can never be 100% certain until I deliver, but so far everything is looking very good.
He told us that he currently has five patients with the same condition and of the five that ours is the least serious of the five with the best possibility for a good outcome/healthy child. He told me he wasn't sure why the other doctors are so gloomy, unless it would be to prepare the patient for the worst possible outcome.
I told him that we had an awful lot of people praying for us, and he heartily agreed and said he knows that prayer does work.
So please just keep praying that she will be healthy.
YOU HAVE HEARD OF STUCK ON STUPID, TRY BEING STUCK ON LUNATIC!
SOMETIMES FUNNY, SOMETIMES SAD, BUT MOSTLY A CRAZY RIDE!
4 comments:
I'm right there with you...cast aside the doubts and negative stuff because what's going to happen is going to happen and in the words of Dorris Day..."what will be...will be..."
I have to admit that when I was going through the high-risk OB sonogram/genetic testing for our kids, it was always worst-case-scenario stuff. Just go with the flow, hon!
My sister was all but PROMISED by some of the medical staff she encountered during her last pregnancy (with twins) that my niece would have Down's Syndrome.
The twins were born with no complications and are both perfectly healthy children.
Doctors don't know everything - you keep the faith and know my prayers are with you and yours.
You have my prayers.
Don't believe the doctors. They are human and don't know the out come either. Keep your faith and keep trusting that this will work out.
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