Got a call from my midwife

whom I absolutely love, in case I haven't mentioned. ;)

She said she had the resident OB (the one who works with the midwives, mostly as a "name" for insurance purposes, since most ins. companies don't accept midwives) take a look at my file, along with the medical records, as well as a maternal fetal specialist. She said that originally, when they looked at my labs (that whole series of labwork they did back in the beginning, every blood test known to man), they didn't see anything that was abnormal, but when taken with all my medical history, there was some concern with a couple of things. One was an abnormal alleal. Normally, you would need two alleals to have this particular clotting disorder, and normal people have none. I have one. This means I am borderline for the disorder, which was the one the first midwife was concerned about to begin with. There was also another "borderline" factor that raised a red flag for the specialist when taken in consideration with everything else.

At any rate, she recommended I begin being treated for the clotting disorder to prevent any problems that could occur. She said there is no way to know if it would cause a problem, or to know if this is what caused M's death, but the benefits far outweigh the risks. I am to start taking a baby aspirin a day, an increased doseage of folic acid each day (a prescription) and also doing self injections to treat the clotting disorder. Of course, 25 doses of the injections is going to cost me $300 ($1800 before insurance ) but I'll figure out something b/c it's not something I am not going to do. I am hoping she will tell me they want me to do one injection a day, and not two, she is supposed to let me know tomorrow. (at two a day, 25 will not even last two weeks, and I've got about 9-10 weeks to go!)

Anyway, I am thrilled that she is being so proactive and I don't mind the injections at all. I am to go into the office in a couple of days to have them show me how to do them, either tomorrow or Friday.

Now to find an additional source of income...to pay for them!!