So the spotting hasn't been bad today. Only tiny little bit of brown in the morning and now nothing for the rest of the day. I do wonder if I may have an UTI though because I have been having cramping pain in my bladder today. Unfortunately since I am having trouble getting in with a doctor I will not know if this is the case or not (more on that story below).
I decided to break out my doppler this morning since on of the women on ff reported on finding a hb just after 7 weeks. I tried and tried, but after 20 minutes had to give up. The only thing I heard was my own pulse and even that took a while to find. Didn't even hear any placenta sounds. I am hoping it means that the baby is still too low and that in a week or two I will be hearing everything fine, but it is hard not to get discouraged. I have decided because of today's dismal attempt that I will wait at least until the weekend before trying again.
Since I didn't hear back from the hospital yesterday at all I decided to call again first thing this morning. The women that answered said that yes they had booked me an appt, but that the power went out yesterday and they are just now getting the computers back up. She said she would call back. This was at 9:10. 3:30 came and still no call so I decided to try for the million time again, by this point I am getting pissed. The woman apolizies for not getting back to me and then tells me the appt is August 20. WTF? That is almost 3 weeks away. I said don't you have anything sooner. She says not with this doctor. I said I don't care who the doctor is. She then tells me August 16. Great it is still over 2 weeks away. I ask again if there is anything sooner and she says no this is the next available appt period. I tell her I need to be seen right away and that I am bleeding/spotting. She then tells me to see my doctor or go to the ER. I tell her I don't have a doctor, that my doctor released me to them. She then tells me if I need to be seen before the 16th to go to the ER there at that hospital.
Now for one thing why would I drive into Providence to go to the ER when I have the hospital here just down there street (though I hate St. Luke's, but that is another story).
So I hang up and call my RE. Of course it is now 3:40 and they close at 4. I leave a message with the secretary because they never answer the phone and try phoning my ob. Well that didn't go anywhere. The receptionist tells me that they don't have appts before the 16th and that since I am high risk that I need to go to the high risk period. Basically my ob won't touch me from the drift I got. So there you have it. I am 8 weeks today, with a SCH that is causing me to spot (even not bleed daily), may have an UTI, I am already labelled high risk, but the high risk clinic won't see me for another 15 days.
So I don't really know what to do. I am going to call back my RE's office again tomorrow morning (the good news is is after dd's PT first thing tomorrow I have the rest of the day free to get this matter straightened out). Hopefully they can pull some strings for me, or at least keep me as a patient for the next 2 weeks.
On other news, we have been without water in our kitchen all day today. The plumbers came yesterday evening, said they would be back today after talking with the landlord about getting us a new sink. Well I don't know what they did with the water, but it is not coming on (and I turned it on under the sink so that isn't it) and of course they didn't show up today. Left a message with my landlord at 5, but who knows what will happen with that because it seems if you don't speak directly to her that things don't get done. So I don't know what to do. We have about 10 loads of dishes piling up and if this water situation doesn't get fixed tomorrow we will have no clean dishes to eat off of, not to mention clean cups for dd. Saying I'm pissed and annoyed is an understatement. I am this close to writing my landlord an email and saying if this is not fixed immediately I am deducting next month's rent for every day we are without a kitchen sink.
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