I’ve had so much time to think, my mind literally goes around in circles, but regardless I’m so grateful I get a second chance at life. I’ve had so many questions about all of it, but I needed time to process for myself. I had the opportunity to meet the amazing EMTs who kept me alive on the way to both hospitals, the nurses at Madison who were by my side making sure I was getting everything I needed, and the Doctor from Madison who could have gone home because he was off shift but stayed because I desperately needed one on one attention. Meeting with them, and hearing their point of views, what was going on in their heads, and the process of everything that happened to me was extremely healing. I still have a long ways to go but I’m in a better head space so I thought I’d share a little bit of my story especially for those that have followed our fertility journey the last 6 years.
There’s truly so many details and miracles that happened during all of this but I’ll give you just a brief little bit. Sunday September 15th I started randomly passing out, my blood pressure was 40/20, my blood sugar was over 500, my heart was racing, and I had to be shocked by a defibrillator twice but it was unknown what was happening to me. I spent multiple hours at Madison Memorial intubated because they just could not figure out what was wrong with me, they loaded me up in the ambulance to take me to Idaho Falls Community Hospital, as they were getting ready to leave the CT scan results came back I was bleeding internally from an ectopic pregnancy, I was 9 weeks along and had 0 idea I was even pregnant. My fallopian tube had burst, 5 of the 7 units of blood in my body was in my abdomen, at one point all the blood in my body wasn’t even mine. I was rushed to Idaho Falls for emergency surgery, Monday they had to take me back in to do the same surgery to make sure I wasn’t still bleeding. I was heavily sedated and on a ventilator for 3 1/2 days before I woke up in the ICU & had to hear the most devastating news. My Doctor has told me many times that he is unsure how I survived this, I was his scariest patient in 25 years, but I’m a miracle, and I truly feel that. I feel so incredibly blessed not only to be alive but that I literally had the most amazing EMTs & teams at both hospitals taking the best care of me. This truly was the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced, but I pray that one day I get the privilege to be able to bring a little one into this world but until then I hope my story can help someone and I can be an advocate for women struggling with fertility.
Hope gets the last word.
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