Home.

I'm home. I'm reasonably well.

I know that tomorrow I will be grieving and sad again, but right now I am so profoundly relieved. It got really scary there for a while.

Thank you all, so much, for your support. It means more than you could possibly know.

The whole story.

The short version: My bleeding got worse, and my midwife had me come to the hospital whether or not they had room for me. I had to wait a very long time. In the interim, the bleeding got downright dramatic. I had the D&C, and by a couple of hours later I felt surprisingly okay: tired, crampy, and weak, but okay. I waited even longer for the hospital to finish things up and then came home. Michael, Emily, and wcg are heroes.

( The long version: warning: includes a description of what makes bleeding qualify as 'downright dramatic,' plus some other graphic content )