to dr. r. and any post-op preggies

March 8, 2007

first, let me confess to having been a bad post-op. not only did i drop off the

board and out of sight, but i think my 1 year was the last time i checked in

post-op. i have just been so damned healthy since my surgery that doctor stuff

just never crosses my mind. the only time i have seen a doc since my staple

removal was one late night trip to the emergency room for what turned out to be

a kidney infection, although i had thought it was a muscle spasm. this means

that i have never had my blood levels done since the surgery -- bad, i know!

so fast forward to 2.5 years post-op and here i am pregnant at age 42. i had my

first ob appointment this week and there are 2 things that concerned me. the

first is that my ob said that the only malabsorption issue pregnant women have

is with iron, and he will test my blood for iron, but does not feel the need to

test for anything else, even after i explained about the surgery a second time.

the other issues stems from the first, and that is the fact that we are supposed

to take 3 multis a day. i told him that and he said, " well, i want you taking

one prenatal and one prenatal only, your surgeon doesn't even know you're

pregnant, does he? " so here i am fixing that and telling you, dr. r, that i'm

preggers and asking your specific advice on these two issues.

also, for any post-ops that are or have been preggers, did any of you run into

this kind of resistance from your ob and how did you handle it? please don't

bother suggesting that i find another ob, i had some insurance issues and

couldn't get in to see a doc for a whole 5 weeks after i peed on the stick and i

had to make a lot of calls to find a doc i felt comfortable with who accepts my

arizona state health insurance (all i have right now, cuz my family just went

into partnership in a landscaping company i am running, part of the partnership

agreement was that we would all hold off on group helath insurance, it was

signed 2 days before i got the good news.) and with the exception of his

resistance in this one area, i really liked him otherwise, great bedside manner

and sense of humor, he has been delivering for 25 years, which gives me a great

sense of security in a high risk pregnancy and he delivers at the hospital that

has one of the 2 best neonatal icus and

neonatalologists in the phoenix area. thanks.

monica

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