Hi all....new to the group!!......(my story)

March 7, 2001

My name is Cary and I had emergency surgery on 3/1/01 (last Thursday)

for an e/p. We went in to the doctor that afternoon at 4pm to find

out if the everything was ok since my hcg levels had been increasing

slowly and the week before the sonogram showed a sac with nothing in

it. Well to our horror Thursday's sonogram showed NO SAC this time

and we saw a hearbeat in my left tube. The doctor immediately had me

at the outpatient admissions and within an hour I was in surgery.

She had hoped to only do a laparoscope and remove the pregnancy, but

once inside my tube was very scarred and had to be removed so she had

to perform a laparotomy and remove the left tube and later told me

the right tube was horribly scarred as well. Therefore, my chances

of conceiving normally are pretty much zilch without the high high

risk of another e/p. She has said that when I go in for my check up

in 2 or 3 weeks(I can't remember what she said - INFORMATION OVERLOAD)

but anyway...when I go in she said she would talk to us about our

options with IVF. She says that we are both healthy and she thinks I

am perfectly capable of carrying a baby and all that goes with it (I

do have a 9 year old son from a previous marriage). Anyway....I'm

still on leave from work (dr. made me stay home a week) and I feel

like maybe I have too much time on my hands to think, but it has

given me time to find you guys here as well as some other boards on

iVillage to connect with other women who have gone through this. I'm

still trying to get in touch with my feelings but I'm very excited to

know that I do have an option with IVF and my husband-to-be is very

open to anything that we need to do to have a baby. Now are first

plan of action to get married....(we were going to rush and do a

little ceremony on April 13th when we thought the pregnancy was

normal), but now we are slowing down the pace and going to make it a

bigger deal and take more time to plan it. Although now I cant seem

to think about anything but wanting a baby NOW!!Well I'm sorry to be

so long winded, but I guess I needed to tell my story mostly for my

own reasons. Once again thanks for allowing me to join you all and

look forward to forming relationships with each of you.

Sincerely,

Cary

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