Today was my 2 week checkup with my OB. As I've mentioned before, I LOVE our OB. She's really great. She said she thought I was doing pretty good considering what happened, which was good. Anyway. While we were there, she told Kris and me a story she heard at the hospital. 5 days after we had our baby and my surgery, a lady gave birth to her 5th child, and had the same post partum hemorrhaging as me. She ended up going into get a hysterectomy, but she kept on losing tons of blood, and as if her body was giving up, nothing was clotting. They ended up bringing in trauma surgeon and a vascular surgeon to patch her up, but after 4 hours of surgery, no luck. So they couldn't even close her up - they packed her with stuff layer by layer, and ended up giving her 20 units of blood. (Which we found out that average blood volume is about 11 units of blood.)
Dr. Eisenhauer shivered as she told us this story... As we talked a little about what happened to me light heartedly, she said, "Well, we can laugh about it now, but..."
Kris and I really feel blessed to be here together as a family, safe and whole. This will be a blessing from God that we will remember for a long, long time.
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