Healing

On Monday, dh came home from work early after going to the doctor for an injury he suffered on the job. What are the odds of 1 person getting stitches twice in 1 month? They always say bad things come in threes. Well, the first was his injury where he had to get stitches on his forehead. The second was our miscarriage. The third was this injury. Hopefully this will be it for a while.
My plan before he came home with the injury was to wait and see what happens with miscarrying on my own until Thursday before I call the RE to get a prescription for misoprostol. Since dh got injured, he was going to stay home at least on Tuesday and possibly the whole week. I figured I might as well start the misoprostol earlier. So we picked up the medication Monday evening in preparation for Tuesday morning when I would take it. I was on the computer Monday evening and Tuesday morning researching as much as I could about it. I couldn't sleep that night out a fear as I kept thinking about all the things that could go wrong...hemorraging, not being able to have children, having to do a d&c anyway because it didn't work, being in excruciating pain. I was scared out of my mind and ready to tell dh that I wanted a d&c instead. If he didn't agree to insert the pills, I probably would've chickened out.
The RE instructed me to insert 4 200mcg tablets of misoprostol vaginally. She said in about 6 to 8 hours I should experience a lot of cramping and bleeding. Dh inserted 4 pills at 7am and I proceeded to lay in bed waiting for it to take effect. About 20 minutes later, I felt a mild burning sensation. After an hour, I had mild cramping so I decided to take 2 acetaminophen tablets just in case. The cramping occured in waves almost like I would imagine contractions to be because it got closer and closer and increased in severity. By 10am, I couldn't stand up because of the cramping in my cervix. Standing up increased the pressure which made me cramp more. I couldn't stand it anymore so I called the RE who prescribed tylenol with codeine. Because I didn't know how it would affect me, I decided to take just one instead of the maximum dosage of 2 tablets. It helped a lot. I still felt the cramps but it was much milder than before. A little after 3pm, I felt this pressure and pain from my sternum down and in my lower back and thought I needed to go the bathroom for a bowel movement. Instead, the bleeding started. I expected to be bleeding heavily so I prepared myself by placing a shield on my bed and wore a overnight pad. The weird thing though was that I only bled when I went to the bathroom. Everytime I went to use the bathroom about 2-3 tablespoons of blood came out. There were no visible clots. By 8pm, I was tired so I took my last dose of tylenol for the evening and turned in. This morning I left a message for the RE to call so I could get instructions for today (on whether I needed to take another dose of the misoprostol). About 9am, I went to use the bathroom and felt this large glob come out. I expected to see it in the toilet but saw it still stuck to me so I managed to grab it with toilet paper. It was a glob about 3 inches long by 2 inches wide. It was like nothing I've ever seen before, so I assumed it must have been the sac/placenta. When the RE called, I described it to her and she said that I can assume that everything was expelled. She said I should expect to continue to bleed for no more than a week or two.
This experience turned out better than I expected (so far). Hopefully it continues that way where I don't get any infection and that my cycle regulates quickly. At this point, I am happy with my decision not to wait for it to happen naturally or to have gotten a d&c. Physically, I feel back to normal. Emotionally, right now I feel okay. I feel a small sense of closure with the miscarriage being complete and the knowledge that my body can start to heal. I'm trying to focus on our next steps and the hope that this has brought us. We now know we can get pregnant on our own. They say the third times the charm. Maybe it'll be the lucky three that will bring a baby we can bring home.