Amazing Doctors

Miss Harper was born on June 23rd at 34 weeks 1 day.  She's perfect and doing well in the NICU and we can't wait to have her home!  Everything went well and I avoided any complications during surgery-- which was a great surprise because everyone assumed we'd be faced with some complication between blood loss or scarring or any number of scary things- both due to my cancer treatments and due to having 4 c-sections.

I don't understand how medical rankings go, but I had a high-risk OB (Dr. E.) and under her I was also followed by another high-risk OB- Dr. H.  As luck would have it, Dr. E. was in France at the time of my delivery.  Therefore, Dr. H. was still doing my c-section, but now under the supervision of another doctor.  Again, it all went well and things were great.  But I was most impressed with the fact that Dr. E. called from France to check in with Dr. H. after the delivery to make sure things were fine.  

Another thing that really impressed me was that on Monday, my oncologist, Dr. N. came to visit me at B&W to check in.  He didn't need to do that.  I wasn't under his care at that moment, but he stopped by my room to see how everything had gone.  He already knew we had a girl and that she was doing well-- he had touched base with Dr. E. as well.  There was definitely a look of relief on his face when we talked.  I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but, not only is my cancer extremely rare-- especially in people over 10-- I'm also probably the only person diagnosed with it while pregnant.  Everyone was making educated decisions about chemo drugs to use and the course of treatment, but they were also flying by the seat of their pants and blazing their own path.  (Fortunately one that has worked so far and also got a beautiful girl here safely.)

I know that there is nothing guaranteed about my treatment right now.  I am so lucky to be responding and so lucky to be able to fight it like I am, but I am also so lucky to be cared for my such amazing doctors who seem to know that they're dealing with a person and not just another patient.