***WARNING**** Medical content, if you have a queasy stomach you might not want to look

Sorry for the graphic picture:( BUT it blows my mind how bad it really was and its hard for me to explain without you seeing it.

The Large lump in the middle that the instrument is pointing to is my baby in my fallopian tube. It was big!!!!! That little brat was just growing away!!! That is where I ended up, let me fill you all in on how I got to this

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Tim and I found out we were pregnant on the 9th of this month. The first beta HCG test I had was on tuesday the 13th. My HCG was 287!!! It was such a good sign. That was the best HCG number I have ever gotten!!! 2 days later it had gone up to 498. The weekend came and I was feeling weird, I just figured it was from being pregnant. So on Sunday I went to church with Tim and everything was fine, but by that afternoon I was worried because I had started to cramp in my back and I was spotting. I had Tim take me to the Urgent care where they checked me out. While I was there they did an ultrasound and they didn't see anything. BUT my numbers had yet again gone up to 997. These are normally rising numbers so this didn't alarm anyone. It made me feel better but I just knew something was wrong. The whole thing had already been such a roller coaster. They released me and I went home. That night Tim and Andy gave me a blessing and I was feeling ok. About an hour later I was in excruciating pain. It was radiating up through my back and down into my leg. It was making my whole abdomen on my right side ache. I finally couldn't take it anymore and had Tim take me to the ER. I sat in the ER room for 6 hours in pain while they ran tests. The didn't find anything in my tests that would indicate anything wrong with any of my internal organs. They discharged me with a bottle of Lortab and a paper that basically said they had no idea what was going on.

On into monday I was sore but the pain was subsiding. I was relieved and hoped it would continue to go away. It stayed but it was dull and came and went in waves. I knew something was wrong.

On wed we went in to our fertility clinic so they could check things out. They did another beta HCG and it rose again but only to 1465. That indicated it was ectopic. The doctor said right there that there is no way we were going to go on our cruise. I was crying so hard. He had me come back in for an ultrasound and saw something in my uterus. This was again encouraging but they still suspected an ectopic. They wanted me to come in Friday for another blood test and ultrasound. On Friday we went in and he saw nothing in my uterus and nothing in my tubes from the ultrasound but that was not definitive. My HCG came back and had gone up again to 1900. Again that was an abnormal rise. They decided to give me a shot of Methotrexate. This shot stops rapidly growing cells and dissolves them. This is very effective in ectopic pregnancies in saving the patient from surgery.

I am no so lucky.

That afternoon the pain in my back continued and I knew I had to call my doctor. He asked me to meet him at the East Cooper ER so he could perform a laproscopy. This is minor surgery where he inserts a tiny camera in through my belly button and then makes small incisions on my lower abdomen. This was so they could make for sure that it is or is not ectopic.

I went in for surgery at 9pm on Friday night. The picture above is what they found.

My baby was growing so big and so fast that if I would have not had the surgery my tube would have burst and I could have bled internally to death.

The doctor had to take my right fallopian tube. I can no longer get pregnant from that side.

BUT I still have a very healthy left side!!! What a blessing!!

So folks that is what happened. I had so much taken from me this weekend.

My baby , My tube, My vacation, and a little of my sanity. BUT I want you all to know that I had so much given to me also. My life was saved, my questions were answered, My husband had been constantly waiting on my hand and foot. My friends and family have prayed harder for me then ever, and most importantly I feel that I have regained an important part of my testimony.

In the midst of all of this my God has graciously stayed by my side and loved me through it all. It is in this time of trial that I feel I can grow the closest to him.

I am at home recovering . I am in some pain, and cant really stand up to do anything. BUT I know soon it will all be over and we can get back to normal.

Thank you for all your prayers and for reading this muddled post. (I am a little out of it)

Please come see me if you want;) It lifts my spirits to have visitors.

Love you all.