Today I had to have two procedures done, one of which had previously been done at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Today's procedures were an echo sonohysterogram, and a catheter sonohysterogram. The second procedure involved inserting a catheter into my uterus, pumping some fluid into it, and then looking around.
(If you're REALLY interested in ole lady medical stuff, go Google them!)
What I found really funny was that, to begin, I was given a regular sonogram, the kind pregnant women are given at every visit, and after that, I was asked to provide a urine sample for a pregnancy test.
Yep...you heard me right! A pregnancy test! You could have knocked me over with a feather!!! When I laughed and asked why, I was told it's part of the procedure. I guess they have to be careful, even with supposedly post- (VERY POST-) menopausal women like me, on the off-chance that there might be a lil bambina snuggling up in my womb. They wouldn't want to pass ANY objects through my cervix, or insert any foreign bodies into my womb, unless they were taking an amniotic sample (which I wouldn't have let them do, anyway. I didn't with my last child, when I was 42.)
Still, a pregnancy test! I laughed for a while. And then chuckled some more. And then breathed a silent sigh of relief when the little monitor showed one line, like the one above!
Because I hate to say it, but if, by some weird and totally odd "miracle", I became pregnant after all my eggs have been used up (three years now) -- that's what menopause is, we run out of eggs! -- I would NOT have been a happy camper. At ALL!
Thank God for small mercies! 
64 comments:
when I hit menopause early... at 44 - my doctor checked to see if I was pregnant, she took a blood test to be sure, and even though my son was graduating college and I had had my tubes tied.... it was almost sad to get a negative back.....
slaps face! what was I thinking??? lol....
I was at the Uro/Gyn today.... hope all your tests come back fine!
Precisely!!! LOL!
I'll have to have a further procedure, Mo, in hospital, to get rid of the things they found. Nothing major, or if it was, they didn't make it sound like it was.
Hey, Auntie..........stranger things have happened..........you never know....I've just turned 45 this year and I often wondered
if early menopause would happen with me, but its not the case......My mom suggested that I get my tubes tied after I had my youngest...but I just never could mess with whatever goes on...........I'm sure you will be just fine!!!
I'm fine, love, coz I'm NOT pregnant! *grins*
my former neighbor Ms. Munson........she had 10 kids.......
she called her period............the blessing. LOL
Hahahaha!!!
Blessing...thats cute
wow that scared me, and I don't know why lol lol lol
whewww lol
Glad you are ok!!
*chuckles @ Joyce*
Thanks, Luxy! :)
Gee, I sure do hope the future test and procedure comes out safe. It is super crazy that they do the preg. test sometimes, but they want to protect themselves from malpractice.
Be sure to update us so we know all is well, please.
gladyer not going to be saddled witha squallin' brat, darlin'!
*evil(ish) grin*
I will, Cindi, and thank you, Martha! *chuckles*
yerrrr welcolm!
0h don't they think of the funnest things to do to us! ...hehe...my Mother had me when she was 53 and my Daddy was 63...I was a SURPRISE!!!! ;))
I can well imagine! In my case, it would be a different thing if there were eggs left, Jillian, but there ARE none! LOL!
Yeah. That's one test I'd be happy to fail too. :)
K....yup bet my mama thought the same thing. But they didn't have the tests then that they do now. :)
:)) after a whole life of fibroid history, various procedures, menopause at 50, never produced any children,
and at age 54, 4 months ago.....hysterectomy done..was only to be partial..and it ended being complete.because
there was a tumor unknown to the dr. that was on one ovary, so it had to be removed and checked for malignancy, along with the tubes and the cervix..i suffered so long....left with one ovary only....i am content..but i love all the
children and teens in the world..... i hope all things will work out for you..i know what you mean about the
uncomfortableness of things....i still have a motherly instinct even at my age..but i know i will never give birth..
*big hugs*
*chuckles*
thank you very much...:)
Not that it would have made a bit of difference! :)
You're welcome! :)
you mean i'm not gonna be an auntie again????
Hope it all goes well. You'd think mother nature would give you a break post-menopause.
awww shucks...and I was so looking forward to being her e-godmother...
Hush up, you! :P
I know, right, Maggie? :(
Et tu, Laci? *chuckles*
Whew......thought for a moment there that I was gonna be asked for a DNA sample..........................................sheesh!
LMAO @ TT!!
LOL....
oops....you are not gonna make me take the DNA thing either are you sweetie?
;-)
*guffaw* Nut!
*guffaw* Nut!
*guffaw* Nut!
exactly!
Hehe!
;-)
now....go....
write something that makes me quiver,...makes me wonder....sheesh....get er done my friend...
Maybe I'll post something tonight...on Kittigory, not here.
just let me know when....my red pencil is at the ready.......
;-)
Okie dokie! :)
well thank lord !
lol...i've been thinking so long of having my tubes tied ....jus never get around to doing it...too scared of messing with my system...
i am waiting for menopause...i am so sick of the cramps i swear !
Don't do it, Mannu! Let nature take its course! In the meantime, wait! Menopause ain't all it's cracked up to be! LOL!
aww..hahahhaha..
LOL.. I waived the right to pregnancy tests now during any procedures due a tubal after my last child and then later.I just tell them that I sold all the baby stuff and the playpen is in the attic for the grandkids. Usually gets a chuckle out of somebody.
Thank God for one-liners, eh?
Menopause ain't no picnic either. You don't get cramps, but waking up in the middle of the night in a puddle of sweat is not my idea of fun either. I could also do without the dark spots on my face.
Young people take note: Get invested in Kimberly-Clark or some other equally large paper producing company. You come into the world as their property with their logo stamped on your butt, cleverly disguised with some Sesame street character, go through the whole menstruation dealie, and the bladder leakage liners, and then it just "Depends"
Hahahaha!! Very funny, you!
Part of the reason for these procedures was that my body has been acting like it still HAS eggs, cramps and all! I don't get night sweats, though, but yeah, the dark spots I had before are just spreading. I can just imagine how I'll look when I'm old, and it aint pretty! :(
lol would have been an eye opener if the result for the pregnancy test were different... Try explaining THAT one;
Some years ago I scratched the surface of my eye. It was very painful and I went to the Doctor to see if it needed any specific treatment. I got this big long explanation about how any surface damage to an eye ALWAYS needed to be treated immediately with antibiotics blah blah blah...Off handedly the Doctor made mention that "ofcourse, in the event of pregnancy he would never recommend antibiotic eye drops"....which was my time to tell him that I had been thinking of doing a pregnancy test because I wasn't sure if I had indeed was pregnant...... I was marched from the Doctor's room into the Nurses station for the test
Another Immaculate conception!! LOL!
I think they would have escorted you to the ER if the test was positive.. .more because of heart palpitations or for resuscitation. (Only to find out it was a "false positive" or a lab mix-up) I'd be laughing, but only because you were unconscious and could not hit me back. LOL
Haha!
So what brought all this on?
Post-menopausal bleeding.
Part of the procedure--I have a lot of ladies laughing at me every week over that.
I can imagine, Welshie! *grins*
lol...
Hehe!
LOL...here too...I also had a 'surprise' at 42.my 5th child after the shock it took me back to a younger age going through all that young stuff again...it keeps you from feeling middle aged ...so called drama ...that once was called turning 40. and you thought getting pregnant was in the past and Bingo you won the Jackpot...hopefully....LOL.
I had to take one when i got my colonoscopy....it delayed the crap out of my procedure because I just couldn't pee! Finally they gave up and just took a blood sample. I told them I was pretty damn sure I wasn't pregnant (since I have a fairly good understanding of how pregnancy works...). But they said they had to do it anyways. Oh well. I guess thats just one more thing they can charge you for.
That's true, Irene! :)
OMG! Don't TELL me I'm going to have to do that AGAIN!!! I haven't had one of those yet, and I'll be 54 in a minute! Naughty me! :))
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