Re: abortion/placenta previa
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Oct 12 17:44:37 2000
gives new meaning to the term "breaking and entering".
art
At Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kathi Wilson wrote:
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>DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
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>> Well, I'll grant you that if she's a bit chubby, maybe even worse... But hey,
>> since we ALWAYS know when our periods are coming (since that means no sex!!!)
>> then if we MISS a bunch of them, we should be just a little suspicious.
>
>Hmm, maybe it's the weather up here..... But I deal w/ a fair proportion of
>women who actually *don't* always know when they'll menstruate, d/t wildly
>irregular cycles. Not all of us are like clockwork (she said, perimenopausily).
>
>Actually looked after a woman one time who *never* menstruated after she d/c'ed
>her OCP's (for something like a year). Her pregnancy was diagnosed when (oops)
>the ob/gyn did a hysterosalpingogram and didn't do an hCG first, because why
>would you *ever* suspect that the woman was pregnant?? I always expected that
>that kid would come out blue or something.....
>
>And then there was my midwifery partner's neighbour who went to have a hyst
>secondary to endometriosis and who also had wildly irregular menses. The gyn who
>cut open her uterus (it was an abdominal hyst) must have crapped his drawers when
>he found (oh, s**t!!) that it was *occupied* at the time. And she was fairly
>well advanced in pregnancy. He quick sewed her back up, and she went to live on
>antenatal until she had the baby, (which is where I met her, as a student).
>She's, like, famous. Made the front cover of the National Enquirer and did the
>talk show circuit. You could look it up.
>
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art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
