Happy and We Know It - Post Op News!

I will start off saying I asked Trent what the title of the Blog should be and he said Happy and We Know It.  He said this because I am in a really good mood since leaving the doctors office from my post op visit and I was singing If your happy and you know it, clap your hands, stop your feet, etc.  Well we was at the gas station and there was a water puddle so I started singing if your happy and you know it, stomp in a water puddle and I done just that 3 different times and sent him on the run so I didn't get him wet.  LOL. 

I have been very anxious to follow up with Dr. Hill since my surgery.  Since he didn't talk to me after surgery, I just had to go off of what Trent and my mom was telling me.  We were very anxious to see how much the doctor thought removing the endometriosis and fibroid would help our chances in getting pregnant since it was supposedly so mild.  Well, Mom had said that after the surgery, Dr. Hill had said the endometriosis and fibroid along with other things could have prevented pregnancy.  I have been VERY curious as to what "other things" meant.  Well, today when we saw Dr. Hill, he was going over the pictures with me that he had printed during surgery.  I finally now know why he done the D&C which also explains what he meant by "other things".  I apparently had several polyps in my uterus which were all removed with the D&C and also sent to Pathology.  Thank God everything came back non cancerous.  We figure Dr. Hill said "endometriosis and fibroid along with other things" because he didn't want to mention the polyps until he knew if they were cancerous or not.  Me along with my family feels like he done the right thing by not mentioning polyps until we knew.  Dr. Hill did say today that endometriosis, fibroids, and polyps are all factors of infertility and since the surgery, I am cleaner than I will ever be and he definitely feels like this has increased our chances of getting pregnant.  He also recommends that we start IUI's back ASAP due to the fact that I am now cleaner than ever which is exactly what we had planned on doing.  He said to call with my next period and we will start fertility drugs back and do an IUI with that cycle.  This means in September, we will be starting back with our IUI's.  We are so very excited!!!  We have 5 vials left so we will do 1 to 2 more rounds of Femara and if we are not pregnant by then, we will then switch back to Clomid and do a higher dosage than what we used before.  If we still don't get pregnant then, we will try 1 to 2 cycles on FSH daily shots.  We are obviously hopeful and praying that we will get pregnant before then but we really hope we don't get to the point of having to do the shots because if I remember correctly, when we asked about the shots once before, I am thinking it was about $2,000 a month.  We are willing to try 1 maybe 2 rounds of this but really don't want to have to spend that much just on the medicine alone.  That will not include the price of the IUI itself. 

We had asked about the Endometriosis growing back and he said that yes, it could definitely grow back however we would be looking at a 15 to 18 month window before it normally grows back.  He said this was another reason that it would be smart to go ahead and do the IUI's when possible.  This also tells me that if we end up pregnant and have vials left that in a couple of years when we are ready to use the rest of the vials and try again, it may be a smart thing to do to go ahead and have another laproscopy, hysteroscopy and possible D&C again to make sure it has not grown back to prevent pregnancy that go around.

I had told Trent that whether they found anything else or not, the surgery was worth it for the polyps alone for the simple fact that they could have potentially been cancerous.  God really works in such mysterious ways.  Due to the fact that I am not a typical endometriosis patient and I never had any signs or symptoms of the endometriosis, fibroids or polyps, I would have never had the surgery done had it not been for the discomfort and pain I had been having off and on for a year now.  I would have never known about my infertility issues had I not been having the discomfort.  Who knows, we may have never had a chance at pregnancy if God didn't give me the unknown pain and discomfort.  Which by the way, that discomfort and pain I was having before the surgery has not went away therefore, it is most likely due to my appendix.  Dr. Hill did discuss that again with us today and said that he couldn't guarantee that is where the discomfort is coming from but he thought it probably was.  He says that it is nothing that I have to have done now if we wanted to do IUI's first, we could deal with the appendix later if I could live with the discomfort however, at some point I would probably want to see a General Surgeon about having the appendix removed.  He said he doesn't know what would make the appendix stretch and lay across the pelvic region the way it is but I was in no danger.

All I can do is Thank God that he has such a wonderful plan for our lives.  Who knows why everything works the way it does but God sure knows every little detail whether we understand it or not.  We are very Thankful that I have had the surgery and now have answers to us not getting pregnant and the discomfort I was having and Thankful that things were removed that could have had potential to be very bad.  We are Thankful lab results came back good with no cancer.  We are also Thanking God for giving us the opportunity to be able to start fresh and start IUI's back.  We sure can't wait till next month.  We are so very excited to get everything going again.  I can't believe it has been 7 months now since we have had a procedure done but again, God knows best.  We should have technically been able to start back in April however several things delayed the process of us starting back and now we know God had reasoning behind it all.  If we had started back in April, we would have probably already used all of the vials and just now finding out about my infertility problems which means that we would have been out of luck with us getting pregnant. 

We left Dr. Hill's office today feeling VERY hopeful.  Us along with Dr. Hill himself is very hopeful now that everything will all work out and we will end up pregnant in the end of all of this!!!  We sure can't wait to see what God's plan is for us and what our future holds.  Hopefully, it holds a little baby cousin for our sweet little Kellen NaCole.

Thank You all for your thoughts and prayers for us during this time.  They have been greatly appreciated.  As we all know and can see from this post alone, God sure answers prayers and always knows best.