Molar pregnancy - please tell me your positive stories! I need cheering up...

[Habbibu]

Just back from hospital - test results after EPRC showed partial molar pregnancy. Tired, fed up and in need of good news stories. Please!

still thinking of you, sweetheart, hope it went as well as it could.

Ok - well, there is still molar tissue there, so another D&C tomorrow (told you Ninewells don't mess around!). That should be an end to it, but only the levels will tell. Have to go back in on Monday for more bloods.
But you know? I feel really good. Dr A is a fucking star - did the scan himself, did the bloods himself, never seems in the slightest rush though he must be mad busy. And lovely molar follow-up co-ordinator came to see we'd made it to the scan ok, nurses were just lovely to LittleHab. Everytime I come out of there I just feel positive and buoyed up.
Tomorrow will be fine - we're well used to the suite, and they all know us. They'll do the D&C under ultrasound this time, to try and ensure they get everything (they didn't know it was a mole last time). And chest x-ray to ensure there are no metasteses, so taking lots of care. So right now I'm actually really quite happy - I guess I like knowing where we are, and what's happening, and Dr A was so lovely - said "you can't get rid of me!" Told him we we thought it was the other way round. So - will try to post tomorrow night when I'm home.
Thanks again, all - you're just great.

Good luck tomorrow Hab! It was great to hear you sounding so positive on the phone tonight.

Hi Hab. Your post made me feel very positive. You are having a crap time but the treatment you are getting sounds absolutely amazing and wonderfully caring. Which is as it should be. Unfortunately not all NHS is as good, but sounds like the great treatment we received when dh was very ill some years ago. Not to mention the amazing treatment everyone ever got on my ward in my nursing days...[puffed-up chest emoticon]

Blimey I don't half waffle when I've had a glass of wine on my first evening of holidays...

Anyway will be sending strong vibes to the Habbibu family tomorrow, and thinking of you.

he sounds absolutely brilliant. has the relationship developed into a full-blown crush yet? i tell you what, the one i have on my doc fair makes those waiting times fly by...

glad to hear you sounding so positive, i hope everything is resolved this time. as you say, last time they didn't know what they were dealing with, this time they do so it will hopefully be different. poo, though. but they sounds totally on top of it.

Och, he's a sweetheart - he was very chatty today.
The problem with a mole is that even a couple of cells left have the potential to multiply, so they can't guarantee that the second D&C will work, but usually it does, apparently, as as he said, we'll worry when we have to, not before.

plucky little things. oh i WISH it could have been your baby and not all of this stuff. not v supportive or positive i know... soz.

i'll be screwing up my face a lot of tomorrow, then. who's with me?

Me too Aitch, although will need to cut down on the face screwing, patients at work might think me a bit strange.

[no polite answer to that icon]

Do you know, the whole thinking I was going to have a baby seems a very long time ago now... I'm in a weirdly good mood right now - who knows - might have same (quite foxy) anaesthetist!

Oh, much too late for you, ht. Lost cause, and all that.

it does? oh, that's good that you can let go of that a bit. i foot-stamped A Lot, by contrast.

y'see, ht? what did i say about no polite answer? and then she just came right out and said it.

Well, yes and no - did burst into tears when slightly distracted receptionist suggested we take a seat in normal obs u/s waiting room! But it's just all been a bit of a rollercoaster, first mmc, then start to mc, then D&C, then holiday, wedding, then bleeding, then testing, then scan, now 2nd D&C - haven't really had time to dwell on baby that much. P's 3rd anniversary next month, so it may well hit a bit harder then, but I tend to just feel what I feel when I feel it, if that makes sense.

I have been rude to poor ht for A Long Time, Aitch. And still the poor lamb thinks I'm in credit because of one very well-timed bar of Galaxy..

Sorry to hear you have to have another d&c, but glad they are seeing you so quickly. The one good(?!) thing about having a molar pregnancy, is that once they know what you have, and Charing Cross (or one of the other centres) are involved, things move really quickly and they are very, very thorough.

Your thread prompted me to dig out my molar pregnancy diary (now that is a fun read!), so if you want any info (not sure how I would do on advice!), then let me know.

I keep my fingers and everything else crossed for you for tomorrow, I really hope it gets sorted out once and for all, and that you, your dh and Littlehab are all ok.

that's as best, then. i wound myself up something chronic about anniversaries of things and always, always found that the day passed with more healing than i could have anticipated. but i'd really put myself through it in the run-up, unfortunately. nothing was as bad as the first time, though.

hah! she sounds like my kind of woman.
i'm sorry to hear about your molar pregnancy (i bet that diary is a sad place), it's very kind of you to offer to help habs, i think.

Hi Hazeyjane - yes, the follow up does seem uber well organised - we're doubly lucky in that our local hospital is the Scottish follow-up centre (Dundee), so we get to have follow-up and treatment in familiar settings with familiar (and lovely) people. I may well take you up on the offer of info, hj - esp if we end up going down the metho route.

It was an enormous bar of galaxy though! Can't even remember what was upsetting me at the time. She's got good reason for rudeness. She has to put up with me getting excited about Dolly Parton and Eurovision. I don't mind what she says, because I'd do anything for her excellent company (and her supreme baking skills)
Glad to see so many people coming along to cheer up Hab. If you ever need cheering up, I'm sure she'll come along and make you scones, or chocolate cake, or fishcakes, or tagine....

Tee hee - think you get kicked off MN for love-ins, don't you? Thank you, lovely ht. Will call over the weekend!

PING!

Evening all. Got back from hosp at about 2:30, and have been mostly asleep since. Everything was fine as ever - all the lovely nurses who looked after me before were on duty, and came to say hello. Slight comedy in X-ray when fire alarm went off, so there's me and lots of elderly people sitting around in wheelchairs wondering if we're to be evacuated (turns out it was a toaster too close to a smoke alarm upstairs. Brings back memories of halls). Anyway, feel fine - Dr A did procedure himself, and all seemed to go well. Back in on Weds for histology results, more bloods and urine tests, and we'll see where we go from there. Poor DH - he's supposed to be marking scripts, starting exams etc all this week (and tomorrow), and is squishing it all in between FT child and wife-care!