Angry with the Universe (by sarah)
My life in general is awesome - I have plenty of work, my kids (bar trying to get Mary to brush her teeth or do her homework) are fab, and we have a lovely kitchen and bathroom about to be finished off. We are not struggling for food or cloths or shelter and I have lots of books and music and films and games....
But there are several things that are killing the joy and which have apparently closed off any emotion in me other than rage.
One is mental health attitudes and and cuts to the nhs which I now believe is costing lives and not just random lives that I can only extrapolate about. But people we know and those shining stars so full of grace and wonder and pain are now gone. They leave the world a dirtier mucker place, and they are multiple and they're suffering was extreme and yes there is anger there as well.
Another is general politics and how I see it already impinging on the world around me in direct and tangible ways - the increase in the homeless and the need for food banks, the street litter and piles of stinking rubbish that build up as the infrastructure is failing due to under funding. Again lives will be lost with both these things and that angers me, they are needlessly thrown away.
Tolerance and understanding are being kicked in the teeth and all that human and equal rights stuff. Once I thought I was being talked down too because I was young, then I thought it was because I was fat and using a walking stick or wheelchair, now I realise it's because I am a woman because it hasn't bloody well gone away regardless of size or fitness or age.
But mostly at the moment my heart is broken and doesn't seem to be at all interested in even trying to heal - because I have just spent weeks in a lot of pain and bleeding and loosing smelly gunk, not knowing if the baby was dead, dying or now rotten within or what order it would decide to do those things in. I was petrified that it would go the same way as before and that I would find myself fighting for my life in A&E.
Friday we got the definitive answer and there was no longer a viable pregnancy - in fact there was no longer a pregnancy at all. At least I didn't have to deliver a placenta the size of a small baby this time and haven't ended up incapacitated. But it does leave me with a worse mental shift - last time I was so ill and it was so sudden and we had been so excited and hopeful that it seemed natural to be devastated and upset and weak and wobbly - I don't know how to react to this one.
It was a lot earlier and I knew I was in the danger zone still and I couldn't bare to hope, and when they did the emergency scan I knew that it was over then - but I still had weeks of trying not to hope of trying not to think of weather it was alive or dead or rotting.
Weeks of it being treated as a viable pregnancy with no options given to call it quits - I will go through high water and hell for a maybe baby but I need to be given the choice because then I am a warrior and not a slave.
I had to call in some friends to help look after me as Alaric was away with Jean that first weekend, they were the only people outside my parents and brother who knew - I couldn't bare to say what was wrong. And some who helped out didn't even know as I just labelled it as medical problems.
My friends all went above and beyond in their help and support - once again I was struck by how truly lucky I am.
I've been assured that I'm not too old and that there is still a good chance to have a baby - due to the ectopic I had before I can now self refer to the hospital without having to faff via the GP about pregnancy but I need blood tests just to check things like my B12/folate levels and blood clotting - both things that have been issues for me in the past. But the policy is that you have to have had 3 miscarriages in a row but I don't want to do it like that if I am loosing them because I just need some B12 injections I just want the blooming B12 injections.
I fear it is my stupid blood group and I'm not sure what they can do about that - I was allergic to Jean but Mary is the same blood group as me.
The baby had implanted very low down. I didn't bleed out like before and I am hoping to avoid another op - the scan suggest that I should be fine.
In fact the scans show that my left ovary and tube etc... look fine - this was news to me as they were mullard but appear to have repaired themselves. That is good news.
I am clinging to such things and my work and my kids - I am a She Wolf defending her cubs at the moment - regardless of the fact that one of them is bigger than me - I am also sure I am hen pecking and trying to look after them too much. I am being snappish and curt with people and yes I am angry - very very angry and it is pretty much the only emotion I can feel at the moment.
Sorrows appear to piling up on my friends and family and so I haven't made this as public as I was going to to highlight issues around miscarriage because I didn't want to pour more sorrow onto them.
I haven't yet cried over this - that is not a good thing - I now it's not a good things but I can't feel it. Bizarrely when I am out and about I appear cheerful and happy - but I am not - I feel like there is a dark whole inside sucking everything in.
I barraged the medical professionals with questions on what could I do differently and there is nothing. I'm looking to see if I can pay to have the bloods done and that makes me angry too because if this had been us when we were having Jean that would not have been an option and it means poorer people are already risking life and womb.
Tue 10th Jul 2018 10:03 am 
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By Priya, Tue 10th Jul 2018 @ 10:12 pm
Hi Sarah, It’s not easy and and, in fact, possibly a really challenging time as a woman, wife and mother to go through this experience. I think you’re really strong and applaud your courage writing about the experience. Our bodies are so complex and it’s sometimes there’s never any clear explanation or correlation as to why miscarriages n ectopics happen. Sending you positive vibes and I’m certain you’ll find the strength n endurance to get through this situation. xx Priya
By Gabriel Leon, Sat 1st Sep 2018 @ 9:40 pm
Hi Sarah. I'm going to start out by giving you the benefit of the doubt. That all of this isn't as it looks for a few of us involved the the wider writing community abd you are genuinely going through all of this. But... I find it really odd that you exactly mirror (and have flat out attacked her at your writing groups because you didn't agree with something she said) everything a very close friend of the same writing community
By sarah, Wed 5th Sep 2018 @ 9:08 am
Ok I am approving this comment - because I don't believe in hiding things but at the same time - I don't actually know what I am being accused of here? Who have I attacked and when? As far as I know I have not had any arguments with anyone? If I have upset someone please let me know the why and the how of it.
And yes I am going through all this at the moment.
Sarah
By Nick Mazonowicz, Sat 8th Sep 2018 @ 8:31 am
Hi Gabriel
I am a friend of Sarah’s and can confirm this is exactly what she is going through. So please do us all a favour, drop the passive-aggressive hinting and explain what you are on about.