Post Lap

The news hit me like a ton of bricks. I woke up from surgery disoriented and asked for my husband. The nurse told me they had found adhesion's and I had no idea what that meant. When I was coherent enough to start driving the nurses crazy with my incessant questions (when can I see my husband? What are adhesion's? Where did they find them? Can I have babies?) they wheeled me to recovery, propped me in a chair and along came Jimmy, looking grim. "So," I said "what did they find?" With tears in his eyes he looked at me and broke the news. "You have two completely blocked tubes and your only option to get pregnant is In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This is when the waterworks started.

A little background, Jimmy and I have been trying to get pregnant for 8 months. Around month 6 I began to think something was wrong. Everyone thought I was crazy and needed to relax but I was convinced that we had an issue that was preventing conception. We started getting Jimmy's sperm tested and found out that the little swimmers are swimming in the right direction. Therefore the problem must be me. I did A TON of research and the only thing that made sense was endometriosis. I have a family history of this disease and I had a few of the symptoms. Unfortunately the only way to diagnose endometreosis is via a laproscopic surgery where they take a good look at all of your reproductive organs and try to determine what is going on. I made an appt. for the surgery thinking the Dr. would find a small amount of endo, remove it and tell me I'd be pregnant within a couple of months. Unfortunately what the Dr. found was no endo but 2 completely blocked fallopian tubes that are beyond repair.

Now for a brief anatomy lesson (see illustration). When your ovary releases an egg every month it is caught by the finger like hairs on the end of the tube and travels down until it meets a sperm. When the egg meets the sperm it will attach itself and they will travel back up the tube and implant in the uterus. Rather than fingers, the ends of my tubes look like fists and are blocked all the way through. Obviously in my body the egg is not even getting in the tube (it just absorbs back in my system with nowhere to go) so there is no chance for conception to take place.

IVF is a long, stressful process and this blog will be a place for me to keep you all informed on what is going on as well as a place for me to vent my thoughts. My first appt. with the RE (fertility specialist) is on May 22nd and we are hoping to get this party started this summer. I'll keep you all posted!