Guest guest Posted December 31, 2001 Report Share Posted December 31, 2001 Hello everyone, I've been gone since Christmas day and came back to over 200 e-mails. I have now gotten through them all and didn't escape the tears. Sometimes I wonder if I am hormonal, but no real reason since I've not going through all the estrogens and progesterones,etc...that so many of you ladies are. I definitely think it's just a case of truly feeling the emotion for all of you who are working so hard to conceive and have been so supportive of each other as well as myself. Gwen and Milinda...WAY COOL!!!! Can't wait to hear the updates over the next nine months. I know all will go well just listening to the way things are going so far! Take care of yourselves! Hazel, I am so sorry to hear about your situation. Your day will come, I truly believe, but this just proves to be one more test before you get there, huh! Take care and hopefully you will get through this without a D & C. Corrina, How neat to hear about your childbirth experience. It makes me relive mine like it was yesterday and it was actually 15 months ago. There are no words to describe the feeling you have when you hold your child for the first time and I'm sure that only doubles when you are an AS success story! , haven't heard much of an update from you these days (or did I miss some e-mails)...all still well I hope? Welcome to all the new members. As I just joined a little more than a month ago, I can tell you, you have joined a group of wonderfully knowledgeable and caring woman. I do not think you will find a better source of support for anything than you will find here. I am still learning and deciding and trying to get up my courage for my next steps...and without this group neither would I be this far or this prepared for what is to come. Oh yeah, before I go, most importantly...Thank you to Poly for this group and offering hope to so many woman who would have otherwise had nowhere to go for their answers or emotional support. Happy New Year to you and may all your dreams come true in 2002. HAPPY NEW YEARS TO THE WHOLE GROUP! S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2001 Report Share Posted December 31, 2001 Hi , Happy New year to you too. I am 31 weeks today and no sign of bleeding...thanks for asking. We ventured on a trip to an important wedding that my husband was in. I stayed a sitting potato the entire time and I had no problems. My peri's are encouraged that it is a good sign that I haven't bled so far with the previa. I am having another ultrasound this Friday, so we will see one last time if my placenta moved. I doubt it will, but it is nice to dream. Anyway, if it doesn't move, we will be scheduling an amnio to check for lung maturity and we will be scheduling my c-section for mid February. Thanks again for asking. What will your next steps be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2002 Report Share Posted January 1, 2002 Hey , Good to hear your update was such a good one. The idea of your previa sounds like such a concern to me, but it also sounds like you and the doctors are taking all necessary steps to insure your safety as well as the babies. You are a shining example of the phrase 'Anything worth having is worth working for'! As for my next steps, I'm an kind of at a stall for a couple of reasons. As I think I said some time back we are in process of a move from Cincinnati to Cleveland. My husband has been in Cleveland since Thanksgiving and I play single parent of a 9, 6 and 1 year old throughout the week. As well, we travel during the holidays so all the things that go into making Christmas 'Christmas' around here becomes a bit more challenging. So many things get pushed off until later. My cards just went out three days ago; but, of course, the people who have known me for 20 years or more completely understand! Another reason for the delay is simply the logistics of the whole process. We are about five hours from Chicago and I have no family who can help with the kids. For that reason I haven't even been to Cleveland to look for houses yet, much less pursued anything further with medical care outside of the area. I feel strongly about the need to have a more detailed assessment of the extent of my situation via hyst/lap but want to be sure I go to someone who is very familiar with AS. Along those lines I made a last ditch attempt to find someone local who has seen lots of these through my GP. Her neighbor is "the best" OB, who works at the University. She feels if anyone can find the most experienced AS GP in the area it would be her. We'll see what she comes up with and if it's not a lot of experience I know I will be heading to Chicago...the only question left will be when with the pending move. At this point the good thing is I have no pain. I feel nothing, actually. The bad thing is the reason I even pursued this as strongly as I did was because we wanted more kids and once you feel that emotion it's so hard to stop even if you are lucky enough to be blessed with children already. There are many times I think I have my wits about me and realize that we are done having children (unwillingly) and I will focus on my blessings, then I see a newborn or even a pregnant woman and I can't help but think that is what I want. You would think I was someone who had no kids, but actually that is exactly why I feel so strongly about more. My desire for children became even stronger with each one...somehow they are so addicting!!! But, I know once I've had a thorough diagnosis I will be able to make a decision by which I can stand, whatever that may be. In my case, with the upcoming move, it is a situation of too many things on my platter and they will all get resolved in their own time. Thanks for asking and keep posting on your progress. I love hearing about everyone and I'm counting the weeks with you!!! S. -----Original Message-----From: Martel Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:36 PMTo: Ashermans Subject: Re: All kinds of news!! Hi , Happy New year to you too. I am 31 weeks today and no sign of bleeding...thanks for asking. We ventured on a trip to an important wedding that my husband was in. I stayed a sitting potato the entire time and I had no problems. My peri's are encouraged that it is a good sign that I haven't bled so far with the previa. I am having another ultrasound this Friday, so we will see one last time if my placenta moved. I doubt it will, but it is nice to dream. Anyway, if it doesn't move, we will be scheduling an amnio to check for lung maturity and we will be scheduling my c-section for mid February. Thanks again for asking. What will your next steps be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 Hey Poly, Thanks for the info about the daily digest. How does it work? It might be a good idea for me. I'll see if I can do it myself first, if I fail I'll call on you for help. You know as for updating the chart I would certainly do that if it needs updating, but I'm not sure I understand. I have had nothing further done since I started with the group. I have not even been back to a doctor. My next step is the hyst or lap/hyst, but I'm putting things a bit on hold with the move. As for whether my cervix is open or closed, I'm not sure I have that answer either. All the dr. said when he did the HSG was that we have confirmed you have Ashermans. They could get no dye into the uterine cavity and in turn his diagnosis. They could get the catheter into the cervix but at the tip of the uterus when the dye was injected it went no farther than the end of the catheter and then down the sides. Actually when she pushed the dye through a second time the force caused the dye to not only seep over the sides of the catheter but enter the blood vessels of the cervix. You could actually see the dye entering the blood vessels but not going into the uterus. Does this constitute an open or closed cervix by definition? I mean it certainly sounds like a closed uterus, at least at the point of entry, but I'm not sure it sounds like a closed uterus? signed, Confused ( s) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 Oops Poly, forgot to answer one more question... No, I have had not periods since the birth of my daughter. She is now 15 months old. S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 S, I saw that you didn't change your settings so I changed them for you. As for the updating the profile chart, you need do nothing apart from anwser the questions I ask you and both me and Suzanne will do this for you. I guess if you still have not been back to your doctor, you will not know if your Ashermans is severe or not, right? But you can tell me if you are still not menstruationg. As for the the closed cervix, I agree with Gwen that you might not have a closed cervix but a closed cavity. Well, I will ask you more questions when and if you see your doctor. Keep me updated of your move so that I can change your information on the profile (ie city). Thanks Poly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 S, Sorry, I just saw your reply about the period not yet back. Thanks Poly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2002 Report Share Posted January 3, 2002 Poly, What a surprise when I got the daily digest. Thank you for changing me. I'm still trying to get comfortable with the different system and have a few questions. So with the digest do I not delete my posts? It doesn't cause overload? Also, I keep getting obnoxious advertisements from Yahoo between posts as I'm reading them? Does anyone else get these? When I've been replying since the digest, am I doing it the right way to make sure I don't resend a bunch of posts to people like I originally did it when I joined the group? Oh, to answer your last question about my case, Right, at this point I dont' know if my AS is severe or not. I will be sure to let you know when I take my next steps on either the AS or the move! Thanks, S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2002 Report Share Posted January 3, 2002 S, As with any type of emails from Yahoo groups, you will be receiving the advertisements I'm afraid. I guess that is why the whole yahoo email groups are free to us so we can't really complain. Is it annoying? I know that you would have been receiving them even with individual emails at the bottom. There is also another possibility of reading your emails. This is on the actual web. you will not be receiving any emails in your inbox, but instead you go to the site and read them off of there. What exactly do you mean by deleting your posts with daily digest? If you mean when replying, then yes otherwise the whole daily digest will be sent to the group together with your reponse. There are a couple of bad points I found with daily digest. These are that you cannot receive any attachments and the second is that if you wanted to save a particular email, you will not be able to. You need to save the whole digest. Let me know if you have any other questions. Poly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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