and now something more personal
Unlike the previous post, this update is pretty weighted. It's not something I'm especially looking for responses to, but I've promised a few times to provide some explanation for faint hintings these past few weeks, so here we go and here it is.
I'll provide the gist here outside a cut, because it's sensitive and I appreciate not everyone will want to read about such things. So I'll be blunt enough that it's plain what I'll be talking about, such that anyone is free to read or (I hope sympathetically) turn back as necessary. So just loosely, my brother and his girlfriend lost their unborn child this week.
This was actually their second recent attempt. Hannah's first pregnancy ended very early on in miscarriage. It was a horrible situation, of course it was, but it was early. It was... I don't know. Not like this.
This time, they went in for their twenty week scan and were informed of complications. The baby had a tumour, a rare and unlikely condition that the local doctors said... what did they say, they see something like this once every five years? Jimi & Hannah were asked to wait two weeks and then have a second scan, to determine which was growing faster - tumour or child. That scan revealed it is the tumour, which means the child was going to be crushed and eventually killed before any possibility of it surviving outside the womb. They would have operated at seven months if such were viable, but apparently that was not to be.
They returned to the hospital today to stop the child's heartbeat. On Wednesday they'll be going back in for the actual removal, home again on Thursday.
I'm not too sure what else to add, really. That's just what's been going on here for the past few weeks. If I've alluded to anything, or if you saw any of my semi-explanatory plurks that later disappeared with promises of full disclosure once all is known, well, here is that disclosure. I'm sorry if I've concerned anybody, or is anybody has felt jerked around? And I don't really expect any responses to this, I just wanted people to know what has been going on with things here.
Sorry if that's all a bit... dry? I don't really care to get into personal feelings about it beyond this, or not like such. It's not my suffering anyway, although I know how to look after myself enough that I won't be denying myself any sadnesses. I have my outlets, forever grateful to them. Just thanks to everyone here, always, for limitless patience. If you're on my friendslist then I like you, you're someone I am glad to have within the confines of my life. I appreciate you all, in all different manner of ways, and I just thank you for having me around too. Please all take care.
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I'll provide the gist here outside a cut, because it's sensitive and I appreciate not everyone will want to read about such things. So I'll be blunt enough that it's plain what I'll be talking about, such that anyone is free to read or (I hope sympathetically) turn back as necessary. So just loosely, my brother and his girlfriend lost their unborn child this week.
This was actually their second recent attempt. Hannah's first pregnancy ended very early on in miscarriage. It was a horrible situation, of course it was, but it was early. It was... I don't know. Not like this.
This time, they went in for their twenty week scan and were informed of complications. The baby had a tumour, a rare and unlikely condition that the local doctors said... what did they say, they see something like this once every five years? Jimi & Hannah were asked to wait two weeks and then have a second scan, to determine which was growing faster - tumour or child. That scan revealed it is the tumour, which means the child was going to be crushed and eventually killed before any possibility of it surviving outside the womb. They would have operated at seven months if such were viable, but apparently that was not to be.
They returned to the hospital today to stop the child's heartbeat. On Wednesday they'll be going back in for the actual removal, home again on Thursday.
I'm not too sure what else to add, really. That's just what's been going on here for the past few weeks. If I've alluded to anything, or if you saw any of my semi-explanatory plurks that later disappeared with promises of full disclosure once all is known, well, here is that disclosure. I'm sorry if I've concerned anybody, or is anybody has felt jerked around? And I don't really expect any responses to this, I just wanted people to know what has been going on with things here.
Sorry if that's all a bit... dry? I don't really care to get into personal feelings about it beyond this, or not like such. It's not my suffering anyway, although I know how to look after myself enough that I won't be denying myself any sadnesses. I have my outlets, forever grateful to them. Just thanks to everyone here, always, for limitless patience. If you're on my friendslist then I like you, you're someone I am glad to have within the confines of my life. I appreciate you all, in all different manner of ways, and I just thank you for having me around too. Please all take care.
This entry was originally posted @ aestivalis, with
comments.