Well, he didn't actually say "oops," but he insinuated that there may have been an oops. Last Thursday my fertility doctor called and asked if I had a minute. Being surprised and very curious, I dropped what I was doing. He went on to tell me that he had done a surgery on a woman whose uterus looked similar to mine.
Quick backstory: During the surgery the doctors were surprised at how small the septum looked (they had expected bigger based on the MRI). They spent a while making sure (according to them), but decided that the test they had done first (where they inserted a balloon and then dye to make sure my fallopian tubes were fine) had, for lack of a better word, smooshed the septum making it appear smaller.
On the phone last week, he said the woman's uterus was similar and she had not had the test/balloon. Eventually he found the hole he was looking for, and he is worried that he might have missed it on me because they dismissed the abnormality as a byproduct of the balloon. I think that basically the septum could have been so big that he missed it completely. There might've been a hole at the bottom that lead to the other side of my uterus. If that's the case, the last few months (basically since August) has been a waste and we start over with the surgery.
So he ordered another MRI and we'll see what the change was from the previous MRI. For some reason, he couldn't order the MRI in the Elk Grove facility (he tried to convince me they didn't have a MRI...but I had my first MRI at Big Horn). So we'll have to go up to South Sac, hopefully soon. I played phone tag with the radiology department today. And by phone tag I mean they called once and I tried to call back 3 times. They have very short hours and since the weather is going to be bad on Friday, I've had to move a big school event up a couple of days, leading to a very busy day for me. Hopefully I can catch them in the morning before my kids come in for class.
At first I was having a really hard time. But Stephen reminded me that both surgeons had been in there and looked a lot. And these are very skilled, very experienced specialists who have done this surgery many times. So the chances that both of them missed something is pretty low. Second, based on the MRI, the septum did not appear that large. In order for them to have missed it, it would have to have been huge. Also, God can heal anything, even if the doctors made a mistake. What I want to know is if the doctor missed the septum, what did he cut??
