Your Friendly Uterii: A Commercial Interruption

I'm going to get down off of my soapbox for a post entirely about this new doctor I saw today. The last 'annual' I had was way back in February 2010 and then I had a c-section, became really sad, and have since dealt with a shitload of health problems.

Today I decided it was time for another 'annual' (or in my case, every-three-years-appointment) and went to the Gyno.

I chose to go to the University of Colorado hospital because a) I need to establish care with them if I ever have another baby, b) they have a great reputation for VBACs and c) they have a Center for Midwifery where people might respect my hippiness instead of ridiculing it.

The Physician's Assistant I saw today spent a long time getting my history and talking with me about what vitamins and minerals I'm taking. She even wrote down the name of my 'Thyroxal' supplement with a promise to Google it later and get the full list of what's in it.

Here are the awesome takeaways from my appointment:

• My uterus seems to be great!
• So do my ovaries. (Can you believe they grab them? Weird.)
• I am an awesome candidate for VBAC.
• The Center for Midwifery will 'almost certainly' take me on.
• They do pre-conception appointments so that I can talk to someone and make sure that I'm healthy enough to have a baby.

It was really encouraging. She even told me that it was a smart idea to go see an herbalist because..."Why not?"

And she also seemed supportive of my decision to (thus far) not go back to my endocrinologist because I know he wouldn't support me taking an herbal thyroid supplement instead of his prescription. I made sure she knew that if I can't figure this out naturally, then I will do what needs to be done for my body to be 'stable' and that I don't want to have a baby until that happens.

If that's not enough, she also asked if I was taking anything for my sometimes arthritis. I explained that it disappears totally when I have a normal TSH level. She got the idea about all the doctors I've seen and said that 'And every single one has a pill to offer for separate things, right?" And I was so happy I almost kissed her.

The End. :)