Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Scary visit

During our first visit to the OB, we had to have blood work and a pap done. The blood work all came back great. I did get a call from our OB about my pap. It showed some abnormal cells and she needed me to come in to have another test performed. The technical term for what I had was Low-grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion or LSIL. I've been doing some reading and its serious but if caught early they can take care of it. The test she did was called a colposcopies. It involved swabbing the outer edges of the cervix with a vinegar like substance to see if anything showed white. Of course mine did in one area.
She said that we will wait until 6 weeks after the baby is born before we go back in and look at it again. Sometimes these things resolve themselves. If not I will have to have a biopsy and then look at other treatments to get rid of it.

Other than that I am fine. I am 9 days away from the 2nd trimester. We will be going in again to see the OB to have an ultrasound and blood work done to check for birth defects soon. By then, the baby should be looking more like a baby and less like stumpy.