So I was at a friend's place after work and went to the loo, washed my hands and commented on how I like the smell of her soap. We then moved onto the gym, and everytime I cought a whiff of the soap I thought about Dreyton. So I've decided the smell is obviously one I could smell around the time he was born but I can't figure out whether I had the same soap, or the hospital did, or if I had similar body wash! Really weird! But for the last 3 hours, I've been smelling my hands! Haha. It's the first time a smell has reminded me of him and I like it!
Anyway while I'm here, thought I'd give you guys an update. At my pre-op appointment for my D and C, the doctor said I should have been on aspirin because I have anticardiolipin antibodies (??) which can affect placenta development. As I'm sure you can imagine, I was ready to hit someone, because I felt like I was getting different stories from everyone, and noone seemed to agree on any one thing. So I mentioned it to my midwife (who by the way, had never mentioned this anticardiolipin before - that I can remember anyway) and she said that she wouldn't want me taking aspirin because I lost so much blood when I had Dreyton and aspirin is a blood thinner. She told me that if I wanted to I could ask my doctor to do a full obs history and make a decision.
So I went to see my doctor a couple of weeks ago and as it has already been a couple of months since my blighted ovum, I couldn't remember the name of the anticardio-blah-blah and it took about 5 minutes for him to figure out what I was on about! Haha. Anyway he was pretty pissed that noone had sent him any blood test results that showed that I have this anti-thingie-what's-it, and he said that of course it's an issue, it causes the placenta to break away from the uterine wall!! Ahhhhh, helloooooo....that's what bloody happened to Dreyton! He was sooooooooooo not impressed! Anyway he sent me for a blood test so he can see what the deal is, and he has said that as soon as I find out I'm pregnant, I need to go to him, not a midwife, and he is going to put me through the high risk people at the hospital, as they apparently have people who specialise in this anticardiolipin business.
First of all, what the hell is up with noone communicating with me or my GP? And why, if anticardiolipin causes the placenta to come away, did noone pick it up while I was pregnant with him, or tell me afterwards that I would need special care next time?
Aarrgghh!!! So...now that I think about it, I seem to vaguely remember at my specialist appointment 6 weeks after Drey was born, the specialist saying something about anticardiolipin antibodies, but he must not have said much because I don't remember what it was he said. I no that he said all my bloods were normal accept for the anticardiolipin, so why didn't he tell me what it does?
Anyway, my GP is onto it, and he is filling a record for me with the high risk team now, letting them know my history, and that I am TTC, so hopefully I'll never have the same issue, and hopefully people will blimmin tell me WTF is going on in the future!
Rant rant rant.
Nat