The nurse made me feel so stupid
So this has just been constantly on my mind and I just need to share it with someone else besides my husband and my mom...
A couple of weeks ago my husband and I were headed on our family vacation, so naturally with my period predicting to start right in the middle of the trip I decided to test before we left just to be safe. We have been trying for a year and two months to get pregnant, so I always test the moment I am able to. I got a very faint positive on a first response test (4 days before expected period), so over the next three days I tested every morning and praise the lord those tests were very much all positive! I was ecstatic and over the moon considering I had just suffered a miscarriage back in May at 6 weeks. I immediately called my doctor after I was sure I was pregnant (I mean 4 positive tests in a row wouldn’t be wrong), and made an appointment for as soon as we got home from vacation. The front desk staff so was so kind and happy for me and made me feel so wonderful which is a huge switch from my old obgyn office staff who were nothing but rude to me whenever I spoke to them over the phone. Well unfortunately the following day I woke up with horrible horrible cramps and immediately after sitting on the toilet after waking up I heard a plop plop and look to see two dark red blood clots had falling out of me followed by lots more blood. This was the day my period was supposed to start but I knew this was not my period, as I know exactly what a miscarriage looks and feels like considering I just went through one a couple months earlier. In a panic I called my doctors office and of course they put me through to a nurse. I start explaining what was going on, my symptoms, how far along I thought I was, and made it very clear what I believed was happening. Well from the moment that nurse opened up her mouth, I felt nothing but embarrassment and shame. Her first response to me was “well this sounds like a period not a pregnancy why would you think you’re pregnant”, followed by “why would you test before your missed period”, and “this could be anything but it sounds like a period”. After trying continually to explain to her that I had gotten all of these clearly positive home tests, the reasons why I test early, and that I know what a miscarriage looks and feels like, she still was telling me that I was wrong and I was just being dramatic about the situation. In the end this woman made me feel absolutely stupid and humiliated. I got off of the phone and just sobbed for hours and hours. How could a healthcare professional be so mean and unsympathetic. Sorry for the long rant but this has honestly just been on my mind since it happened and I cannot shake the feeling how this woman treated me.
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