Hey! It’s me – The Eco Chic – did you miss me last week? We went on a fabulous family vacation for a few days to Disney World before I jetted off to the Big Apple for BlogHer! As soon as I got home I had a minor medical procedure scheduled and that is why you haven’t heard much from me this week.
See a year ago after we had Lil’ B we KNEW that we were done with the childbirthing. We’ve always wanted 2 kids – no more – no less! I made dear hubby an appt to have IT done – and then I cancelled it. WHY? Because the baby that he is wouldn’t schedule his own appointment and wasn’t happy with the place I chose (they didn’t do laser) – so I told him he could find a place and set up the appointment. Then I had my follow up/annual OB appointment and we discussed other options. Seeing how we were totally happy with our family of 4 – she mentioned Essure to me. It’s a permanent birth control option that is done in the office with minimal side effects and minimal pain. Where do I sign up? It’s so much easier than having to hold his hand while he sat on his butt NOT making his own appointment – so I booked my procedure. A little over a year ago I had the Essure procedure done and was suppose to follow up with a scan to make sure it was effective within 3 months.
A year goes by – (seriously this is very typical of me to procrastinate!) – and my annual appointment was due again. So I decided to have the scan done before I went in for my appointment. To my surprise they told me that one side of the Essure did not implant properly and wasn’t working! I’m the other 0.20% of the population where a procedure DOESN’T work properly! Yeah me! (Yes – I’m very sarcastic today)
Of course my appointment with my OB had very little to do with the annual poking and proding – and more to do with scheduling a time to fix the Essure. How do you fix a botched Essure? TUBAL LIGATION!
So a week before we leave for vacation I scheduled my second procedure to prevent us from having more kids. This time it was going to be an actual surgery and I was NOT looking forward to this. So I jet off to Disney and NYC only to come home to a pre-op appointment and surgery. Hence – why I’ve been out of touch this week. On Tuesday I checked in for the procedure and spent the entire day at the hospital waiting – and waiting – and recovering. The only time I’ve ever been in a hospital as a patient was for childbirth – so this was a new experience and one I’d not like to redo.
Three days later I’m still in minor pain – my stomach is bruised – and I ache in my neck and shoulders. They say this is normal after having air pumped into (and out of) your body. All I know is that I don’t slow down and I don’t take days off to mend well. My parents were here to help out the first night and then everyone left and went back to work. I attempted to go back to work (from home of course) the next day and found myself unable to focus much on the projects I was working on. Yesterday and today have slowly gotten better but I’m still not back to my SUPER MOM capacity!
The kids will be home in a few minutes so I should probably go change out the laundry and do some dishes before they start hanging off my leg again. See – being a mom doesn’t ever stop – even when you have surgery. As soon as I get caught up with PTA projects and Chruch projects I’ll be happy to tell you all about BlogHer – maybe by then I’ll be a little less sarcastic!
What about you? Are you done having kids? Have you made it official?
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Robin Sayers says
August 13, 2010 at 1:33 pmaww, mothering is hard enough w/o having to add surgery to the mix! Glad to hear you are “on-the-mend.”
The hubcap and I go back-and-forth about having more kids. I have 2 sons (3 and 10 mths), and just got my first cycle back last month so we are debating the 3rd. No decisions as of yet.
Jenny B says
August 13, 2010 at 2:36 pmI know one thing, I know that I am getting the copper IUD as soon as I have this baby! No hormonal BC for me – that stuff makes me crazy!
Feel better soon!!
Kay says
August 13, 2010 at 8:46 pmWe have a 17month old dd and we're teetering on a second. I've always wanted two, DH on the otherhand is happy with our one. He always tells me that since we lucked out with a healthy baby we shouldn't have another. I think he'll come around when DD is older. Then I'll have my tubes tied. I'm on the “pill” for the time being since the mirena caused my depression (whoathunkit?) and doing very well on it! Hopefully he comes around to baby number two, but if he doesn't in 7 or so years, we'll talk about permanent procedures
Jennifer B says
August 15, 2010 at 7:24 pmOh wow. I have 2 kids and I want to be DONE, but my husband wants more. He doesn't like my solution, for him to get pregnant next time. So I want to schedule that Essure so badly, but obviously can't just go ahead and do it without his agreement. So we're using nothing (except my knowledge after reading some natural family planning info) because I can't stand to mess around with any more hormones and copper IUD doesn't sound fun either. It's a very precarious place to be, given how easily we've gotten pregnant the last two times. I don't know anyone else who's had the Essure procedure done, sorry it didn't work out for you.
Jennifer B says
August 16, 2010 at 2:24 amOh wow. I have 2 kids and I want to be DONE, but my husband wants more. He doesn’t like my solution, for him to get pregnant next time. So I want to schedule that Essure so badly, but obviously can’t just go ahead and do it without his agreement. So we’re using nothing (except my knowledge after reading some natural family planning info) because I can’t stand to mess around with any more hormones and copper IUD doesn’t sound fun either. It’s a very precarious place to be, given how easily we’ve gotten pregnant the last two times. I don’t know anyone else who’s had the Essure procedure done, sorry it didn’t work out for you.