My name is Jennie. I'm a wife and a mother. I have been married to the man of my dreams, Trever, for 9 wonderful years. We have 5 beautiful daughters who fill our lives with joy and excitement. We just had our 6th child. Our son Caleb.

I was diagnosed with a rare condition called Placenta Accreta along with Placenta Previa. Accreta is a condition where the placenta attaches to the scar tissue in the uterus. It will often continue to grow to deeper tissue (increta) and even through the uterus attaching to other organs(percreta). I ended up having an 11 hour surgery, including a hystorectomy, and bladder repair. I received 7 units of blood and blood parts. (This is a lot of blood loss for my surgeons, but minimal blood loss to those who are not as experienced in these deliveries. I spent 36 hours in the ICU after surgery. I have also had many other complications afterwards including another minor surgery 2 weeks later. These complications are somewhat normal for the type of surgery I had.

I had a team of specialists doing my surgery. Obgyns, Gyno-oncologists, trauma surgeons, urologists and anesthesiologists. This team has specialized in techniques helping with minimal blood loss. Those with accreta , loose large amounts of blood because the placenta cannot detach naturally at delivery.

My goal is to help save women's lives by giving this terrible condition a voice. So many are ignorant to its fatal attack. Doctors and women alike, need to be educated about Accreta. Many have never even heard of it. The numbers are on the rise because of so many women choosing to have c-sections when it isn't necessary. Not all women can avoid it, but many can. Please help me give Accreta a voice, by sharing the information in this blog. (There are numerous posts with information on Accreta as well as the Accreta team who took such great care of me.)

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Surgery Again?

I was starting to feel like you all were getting bored with each post saying, it hurts, I cried, I'm recovering, blah blah blah. So. Thought I would try to shake things up for you a bit. Yep, you read the title right. I am having surgery again.

Shortly after we got home from dinner etc, my drain started to fill up over three times faster than before. It was doing its weird cranberry color for a while then turned to a pinkish yellow. A super light peachish color.nand it smelled of urin. We tried all night to find one of the doctors on call. The nurses packet had wrong numbers an even wrong company names. So weird.

We decided to come to the ER. We got right in believe it or not. They sent the drain sample and a urin sample to the lab to compare them and check for creatinine in my drain. That will tell us the possibilities of having a blatter leak or a ureter leak. They took me down for a cat scan. I was so tired from not sleeping, that I slept through most of it. It was quick and painless.

They found out that I do have a leak in the blatter.  The catheter had actually poked through to the other side. The stent in my ureter had worked its way up and laying sideways in my stomach. They said there are no holes in the ureter, so that is at least good news. During surgery they will somehow go up and through the uretur, grab the stent, (hopefully!!) and then pull it down to the correct space. I am not sure how or what they will do with the bladder. They are saying they will put me to sleep. I said, that's fine as long as I don't wake up to the machines on my face and I. My throat again. I really hope it's as quick and easy as they say it is. But knowing my body and luck this round... Well, I guess we will wait and see.
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