Update on Jenna

OK here's the facts... i'll post something more creative and insightful later that deals with emotions and what not but for those of you who have been following my cryptic posts on facebook here's the info.

1) we're 12 weeks pregnant, some of you know this some don't, but this is important information for the rest of what transpired this weekend,

2) On friday night Jenna started to experience some spotting, which is not that rare for a pregnancy but is rather rare for Jenna's pregnancies.

3) Saturday morning Jenna started to experience some significant leg pain and cramping, along with increased bleeding. It was at this point that I was notified that anything was wrong, I was in Tacoma (more details on this will be in the foofier post i'm planning on writing later) and was supposed to be there until Tuesday.

4) I came home yesterday afternoon around 3 and jenna was starting to feel better, she was laying down a lot and the bleeding subsided and the cramps were minor, but reminicent of contractions. (at this point we were pretty prepared for a miscarraige.)

5) This morning (Sunday) around 3am Jenna began to bleed heavily and have serious pain. As we got closer to 5am the bleeding had not stopped and Jenna was starting to get very pale and woozy. At this point we called her dad and step-mom and had them come over to be at our house when the kids woke up so that i could take Jenna to the e.r.

6) Around 630 her blood pressure dropped to 68/42 after she lost a significant amount of blood, about 2 pints in total from 3am till then. This was when the Dr. who was dealing with us told us that he was sure it was a miscarraige, which is rare for 12 weeks into a pregnancy and he told us that we had a couple of options, a) wait and see if the miscarraige completed itself, b) have a dnc (surgery) and clean everything out. He said we could wait to make the decision till 1pm since she ate a granola bar at 5am (my fault) and shouldn't have surgery before 1pm anyway.

7) around 7:15 the Dr performed another pelvic exam, the amount of blood was clearly disturbing to him because he took away our options, and told us we were going to have to do the surgery, and we could not wait until 1pm. He said that in order to avoid a blood transfusion that we needed to get her into surgery as soon as the surgical team was done with a galbladder surgery they were performing.

8) around 7:30 the Dr examined the blood loss again and escalated things along even further and said we could not wait for the surgical team and he was going to call-in the on-call back up surgery team to get in asap and prep her for a dnc.

9) Around 8:30 they got her up to the surgery room and began to prep her for surgery

10) Surgery began around 9:30 after the anestetic was given to her. The surgery took about 33 minutes according to facebook from when i posted that she went in.... everything went well there were no complications.

11) currently she is in recovery, apparently she is doing well, but the bleeding will continue for a bit and until she can stand up or attempt to they still do not know whether or not she will require a blood transfusion.

12) as of now, she will recover for the next hour and then she will be in a room until she can walk, use the restroom, and hold down fluid before they will let her go home. She will most liekly be able to go home this afternoon.

13) the pregnancy had almost finished terminating on it's own when she went into surgery but the surgery was definatly needed because there was tissue and blod clots that needed to be removed.

14) she will need to be laid up for the next week or two and monitored for excessive bleeding or an infection, but beyond that everything else should be fine and she is not in critical condition.

That's it for the facts as they are right now, some thoughts and feeling on the facts will follow shortly when i have more time to write, but i need to be ready because i should be able to go back and see her soon. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers, please no calls or texts right now there just isn't a way to answer them or respond, and I don't want to have to weed through 50 messages later. I'll keep you posted here if you are interested in more details, thanks to everyone for their support....


-Billy