Sorry, I don't mean to drone on and on about this. But a good friend of mine, who also happens to be a doctor, just told me that an ectopic pregnancy is one of the few true emergencies in life. Up there with a heart attack or stroke. I had NO idea it was that serious! I know it felt like hell though!
P.S . You do realize that the whole distance runner, wonderfully low resting heart rate thing is now on my permanent medical record, right? Just making sure.
1 year ago
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Oh yeah! It is TOTALLY dangerous if they don't catch it! Kind of like Appendicitis.. if they don't catch it, and it explodes.. you are in a world of trouble! We are all glad you are safe!
It is surreal, to find out how close you were to real tragedy after the fact. I remember being told how life threatening my blood infection was after the fact and I was so glad that I hadn't realized at the time. I think I would have freaked out.
I was telling Ben in an easy-going, matter-of-fact way how you'd had this ectopic pregnancy, had surgery, blah blah blah, you're fine now. He informed me quickly that it was quite a seriouc thing and had an aunt who passed away because of that some years ago. I was in shock! I am SO GLAD you were in a hospital! I just can't even imagine. I'm still in shock, I think.
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