It has been one year and a little over a month since my valve replacement and I'm happy to say that I've never regretted the mechanical valve. It has been a battle to get my PT/INR levels just right, but I'm getting there. For the past several months, I've been going once every two weeks, but it isn't bothersome. The coumadin clinic is five minutes from my house and it is like going to visit a friend, only my friend sticks my finger with a needle to make me bleed.
I still feel as though I will never do pregnancy. Which is pretty funny that I now have the option to have bio children, but I'm choosing not to. Who would have thought?
A couple months after my valve replacement, we started the process to adopt a child from China. It took five months of paperchasing, and then six months of waiting, but in the next few days, we will find out who our daughter is. Come Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday we will get a call that we've been waiting for for a long time. We will find out our child's name and we will have a picture of her. I will be able to see what my baby looks like! And then in June we will travel to China to bring her home.
When I think back to the last three years, how painful it was to learn that my heart was too leaky to give birth, coming to terms with the grief, then the surgery...I feel like all of it has been worth it. If I had to go through all of that to be lucky enough to given the opportunity to parent my daughter then it was so worth it. I might not have known it back when I sitting on my couch crying, but I know it now. I wouldn't change a thing and I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for my f'd up mitral valve!
I'll keep y'all updated. I can't wait to introduce my daughter to you!
xx,
Michele
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