Postpartum Car Accident

It has been a rough week.  Statistically speaking, what are the chances of my family and I being in a car accident within a week of Jackson's stillbirth?

Stats don't really matter in this case because it did happen.  We met our close friend at IHOP for breakfast. The four of us sat in the van behind our friend at a stop light when someone accelerated into our van, shoving us into the rear of our friend's SUV.

It was quite a jolt and the girls were initially very confused.  My oldest has a little tenderness from her car seat harness, but we are otherwise okay.

As you may remember, I gave birth on Monday and am on blood thinners so a trip to the ER was necessary to make sure nothing was damaged.  My doctors have all been pretty insistent that even a hard fall during my postpartum healing would require a trip to the ER so a car accident definitely qualified.  An ambulance was called and I was rolled away.

I will say that arriving at the ER via ambulance for possible internal bleeding made for a quick visit!  I was released two an a half hours later, which probably is a record for an ER visit.

I was not asked to give a urine sample, which surprised me, but a CT Scan and some blood work were ordered.  The radiology technician warned me that the contrast dye would feel hot and I might get the sensation that I had peed myself.

The warning was shortly followed by the thought, "Thank you for the warning!" because that is just the sensation I experienced. The fire-ants-in-the-veins was NOT pleasant, but I knew it was needed.

About 20 minutes after the scan, the ER doctor came in and let me know that everything looked clear and there was no internal bleeding, but the CT scan had caught the top of my uterus and there was product there. He called the obstetrician from my practice that was on-call.  My discharge instructions included calling my ob/gyn office Monday morning to be seen that day.

So tomorrow I get to go back in, rather than waiting the 2-3 weeks for my postpartum checkup.  My only thought is that I'm going to have to schedule another D&C, which totally sucks, but there's really nothing else to be done.  It would seem that the doctor who cleaned me out after Jackson's birth missed some stuff.

I just want to start over.  Can't my body just heal up nice and quick so we can move on?