Jason & Loni’s Blog

Well today was ‘the test’ that I have been talking about for like a month.  I have been reading about it since I got the letter.  Originally I was just wanting to find out how to pronounce the name of the test but then I found all this infomation about it and had to read it all.  Well, there were mixed emotions about the test(which is a hysterosalpingogram or HSG) that I was reading about.  I read how there was just a little pinch and cramping to where they were in so much pain the could not walk for 30 minutes afterwards.  Well all of you that know me obviously know what info stuck with me-the horror stories.  I have been thinking how it was going to be so horrible-the worst pain I had been through..ect. Even when I went to the doctor for the rash(which turned out to be eczema-in case you didn’t know already) I heard stories.  The nurse that saw me asked if I wanted to take a shot or if I wanted a prescription for the medicine.  I advised her I was getting blood tests the next day and then today I was scheduled to get the HSG and asked if it would effect either test.  She told me that it would effect the blood test but not the HSG-so we decided prescription would be best and for me to start after the blood test.  Well anyways, she advised me that she had an HSG done before-and told me that it was horrible!  Well here I am thinking-Holy Cow-my nurse  was horrified so what am I going to do???? 

So yesterday I was so nervous I made myself sick.  I don’t think I was nervous about the pain–I was mostly nervous about what the results were going to be.  I was so afraid they were going to tell me that I was never going to be able to have children.  I actually think that is what has bothered me the most about the test-worrying about the results.  Jason and I want sooo much to have children of our own.  When it seems everyone around you seems to get pregnant just by ‘drinking water’ it is really frustrating.  Well anyways, Jason had gotten himself checked out before and everything came out fine.  So I was never given any test or anything like that-just medicine-so today was going to be the first one. 

So while at the hospital I sat there getting nausea thinking how the DR was going to tell me I will never beable to have children.  I asked if Jason could come in the room with me–of course the answer was no.  I went into the room.  I was asked to take off everything below the waist and asked to put on 2 gowns. the first was to go one way the 2nd was to go the other.  So I was so nervous I forgot to listen to which one faced the front and which one faced the back.  So I put them on the way I thought the radiology tech had said-of course I was wrong-so I put them on the right way.  I was just thinking ‘great I can’t even put a gown on right-how is the rest of this going to go.’  So after getting those wretched gowns on the right way I proceeded to walk into the X Ray room.  I was asked to lay on the table while the radiologist took an Xray of my bladder.  She advised me th DR will be there in a few moments and asked if I wanted something to read.  I already had my new book I got the other day(Chicken Soup for the Soul – Love Stories–which is awesome seeings as there is not a bad chicken soup book in my eyes) and started reading it.  I had just put it down as the DR came in.  Well here it was – time for this thing-ready or not!  They explained what they were going to do-even though I already knew it since I had brushed up on reading from the internet-I could have probably performed the thing myself but I decided to let the DR do it hisself.  So the procedure started and I was so cringing waiting for this horrible pain to begin.  The DR told me to get ready for some cramping-I felt a little pinch not too bad but I did feel it-then he told me one more cramp-this will be bigger.  Yeah, I will say I felt it a little more than the first ‘cramp’.  I didn’t make a noise(I didn’t want to sound like a wussy) but I DEFINATELY felt that last one!  No sooner had I felt the ‘cramp’ and thinking about how I felt it-the DR said he was all done.  I looked on the screen and recognized something I had seen a pic of while reading about the proceedure.  It WAS CLEAR!!  Doc told me the test went perfectly(whew!) and it looks good.  Nothing to be concerned about(whew again).  I asked him what next?  He told me and J to go ahead and have sex and if I am not pregnant call him when I start my period.  From there he will put me on Clomid and then I think it will be insemination.

I also wanted to say thank you for your prayers and concerns for today.  Please continue to pray for us.  Well I think that is my adventure with the HSG in a nutshell.  Tune in later for the next adventure in Loni Land…

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