Postpartum preeclampsia is so rare, even my doctors didn’t know what was wrong with me.
, I started having contractions. An epidural was administered once I settled in at the hospital and I was told to rest since I was only a few centimetres dilated. Because I had polyhydramnios—meaning I carried way more amniotic fluid that was actually needed—my baby was lying sideways. Within a few hours, he was in distress and needed to come out. I was whisked away to an operating room for an emergency c-section.
The next thing I remember is my sister waking me by vigorously tapping my ice-cold hand to alert me to her presence, then I blacked out. Again, she tapped my hand, and this time my baby had arrived and was swaddled and being presented to me by the nurse. All I could muster up was a smidgen of a smile at my sister before I blacked out again. I think the doctors must have thought I was asleep, but I felt like I was already starting to slip away. I felt disconnected from reality.
I will always remember the look of distress on my mother’s face when I woke up the next day. All of my responses to the doctor’s questions caused her alarm. He asked my name and I replied with my telephone number. I didn’t know where I was, why I was there and what was happening. I was later told that my tongue hung out of my mouth similar to a dog suffering from heatstroke. And for a while, my family thought that I had actually suffered from a stroke.
Amazingly, I wasn’t properly diagnosed with postpartum preeclampsia until my fourth day in the hospital. That’s how hard it is to recognize. According to my family, everything was happening very fast. My body was shutting down and my health was swiftly deteriorating—meanwhile, with so many different symptoms, including some that threw the doctors off completely, it was a challenge for them to figure out postpartum preeclampsia was the culprit that was ravaging my body.
When I regained consciousness and could somewhat make sense of things again, an onslaught of worries and emotions overcame me. How would I run my copywriting business or take freelance jobs if I had trouble formulating a sentence? How would I be able to take care of my baby who has been
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