4/9/08
I didn't sleep very well last night. I kept waking up to pain in my left lower abdomen. I only had pain for a short time, would fall back asleep, only to wake up again later as a result of the pain. I got up at 4:00am to get ready for work. In the shower, the pain continued, and I was thinking in the back of my head, "ohh no, not again!" After having an ectopic pregnancy in 2005, anytime I have sharp pain in the lower side of my abdomen, I worry about about a possible recurrence. After having one ectopic, you are at a higher risk to have another. I woke up George, told him about the pain, and called into work. I called my OBGYN's office as soon as they opened. I told them about the pain, and with my crazy past, they wanted me in right away for an ultrasound.
Let me rewind a bit....my period was about 5 days late. I contributed this slightly delayed period to the fact that I am still breastfeeding Owen. During these 5 days, I kept having thoughts of being pregnant. Every time these thoughts would come up, I would say to myself, "there is no way, it can't be." I was saying this even though my periods had been pretty regular since starting back up after giving birth to Owen. I guess I just didn't want to get my hopes up.
After I called the office to get an appointment, George decided to go to work. About 30 minutes later, George is back home with a present......a pregnancy test. I took the test about an hour later, and guess what it was positive!!! I have taken so many tests over the past couple of years, and they are almost always negative. I had to look at the instructions 3 times, just to make sure I was reading the results correctly. I was so excited to see the positive result, but then became very scared. I called George crying, because I knew that with the positive test, and the sharp pain in my side that this most certainly meant one thing, another ectopic pregnancy. 
(Yes, this is the acutal pregnancy test I took. The plus sign means pregnant!)
George took off early from work to go with me to the doctor. We were both pretty quiet during the 30 minute drive to the office. I had the ultrasound done first, and the technician did not talk much. I was excited to see that I did not have an ectopic, but when she moved down to the uterus, there was no sign of a pregnancy there either. I started crying. We then talked to the nurse practitioner, and she was basically saying that it looked like the pregnancy was not going to be viable. She sent me to the lab, to get a baseline hcg level. I got the results about 5 hours later, and my hcg was 282. The doctor wanted me to come back in 2 days for repeat hcg test. In normal pregnancies, hcg levels will double every 48 hours. I guess I will have to wait until Friday to see what is going on.
By the way, the pain was coming from 2 large ovarian cysts. One looked like it had already ruptured, and the other encompassed almost my entire left ovary, and part of my left tube. This is exactly what happened when I found out I was pregnant with Owen. How crazy!
