K, was supposedly 8 weeks along.
Was referred to Early Pregnancy Unit at Inverclyde Royal Hospital for scan as had bad D&V bug on Monday and then spotting.
Got scan.
There's a sac but nothing in it.
This does not surprise me and tbh I am relieved because were not in a good position to have a third child.
BUT, was NEVER told, 'It's a blighted ovum'.
I had told them I came in from a rural area.
In fact, folks, I left here at 6.45AM and walked back in my front door at 12.30.
Instead, they tell me to come back on Monday for another scan 'to make sure there are no changes.'
Then I ask them about what if there are no changes?
They tell me I can have a D&C there.
I ask about anaesthetics.
They say it's under GA.
I tell them I cannot have GA because I have genetic hyperthermia - a condition which causes my core body temp to shoot up sky high and which nearly killed me in an operating threatre 11 years ago.
Hence, I have had the following: three knee surgeries including a major ligament replacement, three impacted wisdom teeth extractions, a colposcopy, a loop electroexision procedure on my cervix and a forceps delivery all under local or regional anaesthetics.
So they tell me that I'll have to go to the Royal Alexandria Hospital at Paisley for the D&C and they'll speak to the anaesthetist.
No mention of getting hold of the tablets that help you to expel an unviable pregnancy at home.
SOOOOOO, I'm supposed to go in there Monday morning and sit in a crowded waiting room full of pregnant women drinking water to fill up my bladder for them to tell me - wait, they never fing told me 'blighted ovum' - I need a D&C.
Then go to Paisley - a further 20 miles away - for a consultant to see me.
Then go BACK to Paisley for a D&C, because I can tell you right now I will gladly sit on this blighted ovum from now until the world ends before I let that consultant at Inverclyde touch me again, OR wait for a D&C in a waiting room of an antenatal unit and recover from a miscarriage whilst hearing newborn babies cry.
Has anyone been in this situation?
And if I have other options besides D&C or D&C under GA, which I would never have in a shithole like Inverclyde anyway because I'd for sure die under their incompetence.
We are furious at NHS Argyll for making an utter pisstake of maternity services for an entire, massive region of the country.
To the point where DH is looking to transfer again - to Perthsire.