on bed rest

Posted on October 29, 2009

I’ve been on bed rest since yesterday afternoon. I only get up to eat and go to the comfort room. I didn’t know bed rest can be um, tiring? Thank goodness for internet, chat software, and torrents. I had my D&C last Sunday morning and I was discharged from the hospital last Monday afternoon.

Unfortunately, my ob told me that a small piece of my baby’s placenta is stubbornly stuck to my uterine wall. Since they didn’t have enough time to harden my uterus before performing the operation because I was already bleeding a lot, my doctor didn’t forcibly scrape off the remaining placenta because of the great risk of rupturing my uterus. So I have to closely observe any bleeding for a month otherwise I would have to undergo another D&C to remove the placental tissue left. I thought all is good and well already when I didn’t have any bleeding from Tuesday night up until Wednesday afternoon. I was so upset when I saw a considerable amount of blood again on Wednesday afternoon and persisted until last night.

So now, I am horizontal most of the time in my desperate effort to stop any bleeding. Honestly, we cannot afford another operation and hospitalization. Our Sunday-Monday hospital bill, including all doctors’ fees, amounted to around 28k and I don’t think we can come up with that amount again within a month.