So, our appointment was not scheduled until 12:45.. but Will has really been wanting to trade his truck in and get something with better gas mileage (since he drives to Nashville everyday and 17mpg just wasn't cutting it) and that was in better shape than his truck (it has 158k miles on it and is literally falling apart.. we have invested $600 in it this month, not including the ridiculous gas money). So we figured since he had today off we would go to the dealership and at least see the trade-in value of his truck, plus he has been researching for about 4 weeks and found a crazy deal that the guy was even mad about because it was wayyy too low. blah blah blah SOO we stopped at chevrolet in Rivergate to scope out this equinox that Will really liked, and when he was getting ready to pull out onto Gallatin Road. Well this girl was letting us out, but apparently Will "took too long" to pull out, because when he did she GUNNED it and hit our front end!!!!!! So then we pull over and get out and exchange information.. turns out her and Will went to school together and she was really cool, so we all sat in the Wal-mart parking lot and chatted for an hour until the cop showed up to file a report. It literally just left one tiny scratch on the truck and a little dent in her bumper. So then she was like "it was good running into you Will!" and I said "..literally" and then we left. I can't make this up.
At this point it is too late to go to the dealership but we are 2 hours early for our appointment, so we drive to Nashville and shop around Kroger for a little while, then sat in the car for another hour before it was finally time for the appointment. We get in there and the ultrasound tech (Patty) calls our name and she is seriously about to start skipping because she is so excited. She said I am only 6w1d today, which is not as far along as I thought I was, but at least I know for sure now. We start the ultrasound and right away she says "well I for sure see 2 gestational sacs" but then as she was manipulating the wand it was sooooooo painful. Like it was awful. She was looking and said "it's really hard to see because your uterus is tilted straight back and you have some cysts on your ovaries thats making them really swollen, from your egg retrieval" Cue freak out mode. So I'm all "Is that bad?!" "What does that mean?!" "Are they ok?!" scariest thing ever. So She quickly said it wasn't bad and didn't mean anything except that she couldn't get a good picture or measurements or anything unless my uterus started cooperating (you had ONE job uterus). After about 4 attempts to "lift" my uterus and me feeling like it was getting ripped out of my body, she goes "am I hurting you, hon?" Umm yeah, your only lifting a part of my body up out of its cavity. But I only said "yes" and she said she was going to get the doctor. Turns out my doctor is out of town, so a doctor I had never seen came in and was able to find the two gestational sacs, two yoke sacs, two fetal poles, and two heartbeats. One was a good heartbeat and one was more of a flicker, but we came in so early they really didn't expect to see any heart activity at all, so it was good. So then we had to go in the conference room and wait for another hour for the doctor to come talk to us more. She said both sacs are a good size, which means both are likely to stay growing. She did talk to us about possible spontaneous reduction, in which one baby just stops growing, but she said that only happens about 10% of the time and they really only worry about it if one of the sacs is way smaller than the other, and ours are relatively the same size. She said not to really tell a lot of people about twins yet though, just in case... (Not a whole lot of people read this.... right?!...) Then she said to keep taking my regular meds, I have to take the progesterone shot for a little while longer, and I have a second ultrasound scheduled for August 13th at 8:45am. I asked her about the cysts and gigantic ovaries and asked her if they would affect the fetal development and she assured me it wouldn't, and that since they are only a product of the egg retrieval that they will get smaller and eventually go away. She said they should be cyst free and back to normal no later than 12 weeks gestation. So that made me feel better, knowing that my ovaries weren't taking over and squishing the pea-sized humans. We got a little picture to take home and we were on our way. (After we paid the $50 copay.. totally didn't realize we weren't on the "flat rate fee" that we already paid [$14,500 to be exact] thing once you actually got pregnant)
After we left there, we decided will REALLY needed a new car. A blue pickup truck that didnt even have 4 full doors and no room for a wheelchair just wasn't going to cut it now. So we drove all the way to cool springs to look at this crazy deal of a car that he found, and long story (3 hours later) short we traded his blue pick up truck for a 2010 silver chevy equinox (such a nice daddy car!) I got to drive it home and it is amazing!! What's more amazing is a $100/week gas budget as opposed to a $300 budget and not spending an extra $100+/week on maintenance crap!!
So after 11 chaos filled hours (not really, probably 6 of those hours were just spent sitting around waiting for something) we are finally home, and I am exhausted!! I didn't have my usual nap today (sooo tired these days) so I am tired and cranky! I just keep thinking to myself.. how am I going to do this every single day starting next week when school starts again!! GES friends, if you hear screaming and scary sounds coming from my room, please make sure I'm not asleep at my desk)
Here is a picture of our little babies at 6 weeks! Praying all goes well for both of them as the doctor expects they should. Now, I'm going to bed!! Phew!
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