As expected things have been pretty crazy around here! Andy and I are successfully all moved into our new home! The move went smoothly minus a busted pipe and minor flood in the old apartment as Andy was unhooking the washing machine. Nothing of ours was ruined just a couple of soaked boxes and a couch we didn't want anyways. We love our new place! I am having a lot of fun unpacking and making a home with Andy. Indy and Fat Kitty are enjoying themselves as well. Indy has discovered stairs! It's hilarious watching her run up and down them! I can't wait to get our furniture so then we can actually hang up decorations! I look around the living room with it's one chair and coffee table and get a little panicky. We have a lot to do before we bring our little munchkin home. These next few months are going to fly by getting everything ready, not to mention set up a nursery!
Speaking of all things baby, yesterday I had my follow up hematologist appointment with the specialist at Emory to discuss how my Factor 7 clotting disorder would affect my delivery and what needed to happen to make sure I was able to stop bleeding. I was previously told by my hematologist that I may have to deliver at a different hospital that was capable of running the correct tests to check my clotting factor levels before, during, and after deliver. I was also told that a C-section may be a safer option. So Andy and I went into this appointment thinking that we were going to get a lot of information and be presented with a plan for delivering our baby safely. What we actually got was a complete waste of time. It took us almost an hour and a half to get to St. Joseph's where our appointment was and the actual appointment with the doctor took less then 30 minutes. I was questioned about my bleeding history and then told I should be good to go for regular delivery with my normal doctor at my planned hospital. I would get some clotting medicine right after I had the baby and be on my way, no big deal. My other doctor made it sound like what I had could potentially be serious and this doctor was like "eh you'll be fine" The one thing I did learn was that during pregnancy sometimes factor levels increase and so my levels could possibly drop after I deliver so I must follow-up 4-6 weeks after the baby is born. I guess it is good I went though and I am counting my blessings that, as of right now, everything can go according to how I planned it: regular delivery with my doctor.
After I saw the doctor I had to have labs done. I've never in my life had so much blood drawn. 15 tubes is what the nurse took from me! They took so much blood they made me drink two cups of cranberry juice. What they were checking for, I have no idea since the doctors had already established that I do, indeed have a clotting disorder and it really is Factor 7 (for some reason no one believes me)
So that is that, I have another appointment with my original hematologist in February. Hopefully the two doctors will have collaborated by then and nothing will have changed!
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