Have you ever had an experience that changed your life in a blink of an eye? An experience so intense that it keeps replaying in your head? I’m nineteen years old and in these days it’s not shocking to hear young girls getting pregnant, but no matter what age, it’s always hard to hear about any type of miscarriage. An ectopic pregnancy was what I had, and I’m still recovering from it. 1 in 4 girls have an ectopic pregnancy, which is also called a tubal pregnancy. It is not considered a miscarriage, but it is considered to be in the same category as one. The difference between a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy is that with a miscarriage, the fetus is still growing but along the way something happens. An ectopic pregnancy (tubal pregnancy) is when the fetus is misplaced in a fallopian tube and the tube ruptures which can cause you to bleed out to death. This is very difficult to find since an ultrasound can’t pick it up …show more content…
While I was in the recovery room, my surgeon came in and told my boyfriend and I that the fetus had grown to the point where my tube ripped so they had to remove my left fallopian tube completely. My first thought was my baby and why this had to happen to me. Everything happened so fast that I didn’t know how to process all of it. It was hard to know that I was pregnant one moment and then the next having that amazing feeling getting ripped away from me. A couple hours later I was finally able to go home and rest. As days go on I think about all the things that happened to me in that short period of time. I didn’t know what an ectopic pregnancy was until that day. I had an experience that changed my life completely in just in a blink of an eye. Even though 19 is still a young age, it should never happen to anyone. I stop to think every day about that day and what had happened to me was a tragedy. Ever since then, I’ve seen how much I have changed and because of that I cherish life
After doctor visits and many pregnancy tests that showed up negative, an ultrasound and a blood test confirmed that I did in fact have a miscarriage. Many thoughts were running through my head, “maybe if I knew earlier I would have done this” or “maybe if I would have paid more attention, I could have done that” but in reality the most common reason for having a miscarriage is because the fetus isn’t developing normally.
Another critical moment in my life that changed me forever occurred in August of 2001. At the peak of hurricane season, Louisiana was terribly affected by Hurricane Katrina. Katrina devastated millions of people across the south. For the first time in my life I got to experience what it felt like to be homeless. I had lost everything! And even though it was not much, it still mattered. There were several moments when I prayed and wished that my father could be there. No child, my age should have to go through with what I did. In hopes to find assistance, my mother left me and my siblings with my grandmother for a few months. These months were terrifying. I remember crying several nights
I found true love, but our reckless bliss was short lived. I began to get sick. I was constantly nauseous and unable to focus. Given my many responsibilities, I could not afford to be sick--why was I sick? I had classes and events to attend and fully participate in as student body vice president--why could I not keep my bearings? I began to panic. What was wrong with me? After several visits to my doctor, I found out that I was pregnant. I was 22, in a new serious relationship, a senior in college, and no money. This was the biggest challenge I had ever
There has been many important events that have occurred since I have been born but there is one in particular that has sparked a light in me that has changed the way i have looked at things. It happened when I was playing with the Sacramento FC and everything was going well until the middle of the season. When we got to the middle of the season things started to look shady. I wasn't getting playing time and that really opened my eyes to reality. Soccer was not the only thing that I needed to do in order to have a good life. I needed to start focusing on my dreams and different routes to success other then just soccer. It really showed what I need to do in order to survive in the real world. If it was not for my family's support through this
An experience that has made a profound impact on my life was when I directed and completed a community service project to fulfill a requirement for the Eagle Scout Award in the Boy Scouts of America. In order to competently act as coordinator for this service project, I had to develop both my interpersonal communication and leadership capabilities to a proficient level. Besides improving my professional skills, this project gave me the opportunity gain hands on experience working with groups of people who had varying skill levels. So, not only did these skills allow me to complete the project successfully, they have also proven incredibly useful throughout my academic career.
This paper is about miscarriages (Spontaneous abortion). Miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy in the first 20 weeks. About 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, and more than 80 % of these losses happen before 12 weeks. A lot of women today experience miscarriages without even knowing it has happened, if only all women had that experience there would be no grief. But that is not the case. So what things put a woman at high risk for miscarriages? It could be age if a older women gets pregnant and has a miscarriage, the egg is too old and there is a malfunction in the DNA make up, a young girl who’s body has not matured enough to process a strong enough egg, the women who abuses drugs, than there is the more severe cases such as illnesses and diseases and then there is the women who may have been exposed to a STD’s and it has caused her to become unfertile. It has been found that 30 to 50 % of fertilized eggs are lost before or during the process of implantation often so early that a woman goes on to get her period at about the expected time. If only this could happen to all women who have a spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) it would save so many mixed emotions.
Every little mistake and success story in my high school years qualify as a factor to my personal change but by far the biggest experiences were definitely my efforts of maintaining a good GPA and the participation in the National Honor Society. Trying to achieve and keep up with my GPA was harder than it appeared but due to all the effort I can anticipate that whatever the future has in store for me I will be ready to endure. Not only was the experience of my GPA life-changing but it was also the door to bigger opportunities, one being the National Honor Society. Although I doubted myself almost every step of the way I can truthfully say the experience was transformative in the sense that it taught me morals I will cherish throughout the rest of my journey.
The pathway of care for EP and miscarriage have evolved in the recent decades, which have effected on the reporting trends of hospital admissions for EP and miscarriage. Without unified and validated databases of inpatient and outpatients data a national levels, trends of hospital admissions for EP and miscarriage are difficult to estimate, and they are falsely reported. The type of management of EP and miscarriage, and services available at maternity hospitals, such as early pregnancy units, are some of the factors that might influence on differences when reporting incidence rates found in the literature. However, more research is needed to fully understand the socioeconomic and pathways of care factors impact on women’s morbidity when experiencing
I don’t even know how to define it. Was it a miscarriage? Or was it a neonatal death? Perhaps a stillbirth. Who the hell knows. All I know is it wasn’t just a miscarriage. I tend to use “miscarriage” because it fits much more neatly in this little box in my head, my heart and my soul that I have created just for it. Maybe miscarriage just sounds a little better.
The experience of having an abortion was painful and scary. I felt alone in the surgical room, and by then I realized that I am doing one of the hardest things a woman can possibly do. After the abortion, I felt nothing emotionally until I attended
Research after research has shown that 10-25% of all clinically recongnized pregnancies end up in a miscarriage, they also have suggested that this figure may be higher due to the fact that some women miscarry, but do not know after ever being
According to the text book Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting by Bigner and Gerhardt (2014), miscarriage is the word known for a pregnancy that ends unplanned during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. The reasons why miscarriage happens varies but there is no exact cause and no exact way to tell when and how it can be prevented. Bigner and Gerhardt (2014) also mention that around 10 to15 percent of known pregnancies are miscarriages. This topic is important to discuss because even though 10 to 15 percent of pregnancies seem like a small amount of miscarriages, it is actually a vast majority. Miscarriage is a difficult challenge that both the mother and the father of the unborn fetus have to go through which is why more individuals need to know more about miscarriage. First I will discuss why miscarriage happens and how it can be preventable. Next, I will discuss the impacts of miscarriage on both the mother and the father. Lastly, I will discuss how parents can cope with the loss of their unborn fetus.
This experience transformed me. When the doctors found something weird in my breast, they told me I had breast cancer. From that moment forward, my life changed and I couldn’t grasp why this was happening to me. However, with the help of my family, friends, and my faith I was able to pull through.
An accident last year changed my attitude towards life . That accident had a great impact on me , it taught me to treasure what i have and to treasure those people around me more . Although the accident was not life threatening , it was still the scariest thing i had ever been through in life . It was an accident that no one would have expected and wanted it to happen .
Everyone has that one experience that makes them look at life with a new set of eyes. My life changing experience happened a little earlier than most. It was the summer before first grade. We had gotten an exceptional amount of rain in the past months even though it was summer. I did not notice, though, because summer was every six year old's favorite holiday, next to Christmas and their birthday. My summer was supposed to be like any other but it quickly took a turn. For the best or for the worst? That is debatable.