**Update at the bottom**
Today is valentines Day---Happy Valentines Day!
I had my 16 week appointment today and I need some prayers. Everything seemed okay with the baby (heart rate was 142/minute) (Yay! Yay! YAY!!!)
....but my blood that they tested last month came back with some red flags, so now I'm in a panic. My doctor went ahead and drew more blood and said that it could have just been a fluke, but she was concerned that not one, but two of my antibody tests came back abnormal. One had to do with my blood type: I'm normally A + (A positive). Your blood type doesn't change in your lifetime, however, according to the lab work, mine changed. And maybe not 'changed' but didn't have enough in it to be conclusive that I'm A +. When you have a certain blood type it doesn't change, so that fact that mine didn't 'feel' like being A + is a reason for concern.
She didn't really have any answers and was as perplexed as I am, so she said we will wait to hear what the new bloodwork says and go from there. But do you ever get the feeling when looking in someone's eyes that they know more than they're telling you? She had that 'look' and I just feel like she has an idea as to what the problem is but doesn't want to tell me until she knows for sure. And that makes me MAD. I love my doctor, but that is one thing about doctors (all doctors) that has always made me mad. It's MY body they're talking about, just tell me what you think. Give me your best educated guess with the facts that you have right now, because I promise you, the WORST thing that you are thinking it could be, is better than the BEST thing my mind (and the internet) is telling me that it is. GRRRR.
So now I wait to hear back to see if I'm A) falling apart or B) if the tests were just messed up.
Please pray that everything is fine and my blood just got switched with someone else's. And if it didn't get switched, please pray that whatever is going on won't affect the baby.
I will post an update as soon as I hear back from her. Until then PRAY (please?)!!!
UPDATE: Can I just say that God is amazing and prayers DO WORK??? Well I'm saying it: GOD IS AMAZING AND PRAYERS DO WORK!!!!! Just heard back from my doctors office, after the second test, all bloodwork came back fine and I have no reason to be concerned. I asked why on earth the tests came back wrong in the first place and my nurse said pregnancy hormones could have done it since they make ladies blood do a lot of crazy things while pregnant (and Scott wonder's why I've been an emotional roller coaster! If it can mess with my blood like this, think what it's doing to my brain!!!), it could have been the lab machines...any number of things. But this test came back fine, so no need to worry and she would see me in a month. thank you for all of the prayers, emails and phone calls...they worked!!!
