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4 years ago
Heya, it is that time again, where a log jam of some art will be arriving on here and I figure I should update :)
It's some news for you all. I have been mighty quiet on social media, and on updates but a few of you already know the news. My spouse and I are expecting, and I am 22 weeks along. We didn't think it would ever happen so, well it did haha :>
So far its been a unicorn experience, no symptoms past some tired and my hips deploying out...the baby is healthy and all that. I do have a condition, which I had to do about 2 months of ruling out with a lot of specialists involved. I have been diagnosed with secondary polycythemia due to the pregnancy and nothing else. I don't have the mutations for the cancer variant of this, but essentially its kinda on the rare side to say the least either way. Don't bother looking it up, everything is about the cancer version haha. I was the first patient for my hematologist specialist in the cancer ward of the hospital to be pregnant and have the condition overall. I am happy its not blood cancer though, yikes. They do want me to test again after stabilizing/past the delivery and a bit into the new life rodeo to see if I return to normal. I am just glad I didn't end up a case for a bone marrow biopsy.
It does I think make me high risk, but all the doctors have told me I am pretty healthy otherwise, like past the thicc low oxygen blood in my system. Some of my daily routine is changing because of it, but for the most part the update for here is I may be switching a bit to more personal art and small batches or so of holiday commissions or just post for sale doodles while I am spawning the wee one. I've been slower for these reasons, but I am more pepped up now that I am into the second trimester. I also have much less blood pokey pokey being done haha.
It's some news for you all. I have been mighty quiet on social media, and on updates but a few of you already know the news. My spouse and I are expecting, and I am 22 weeks along. We didn't think it would ever happen so, well it did haha :>
So far its been a unicorn experience, no symptoms past some tired and my hips deploying out...the baby is healthy and all that. I do have a condition, which I had to do about 2 months of ruling out with a lot of specialists involved. I have been diagnosed with secondary polycythemia due to the pregnancy and nothing else. I don't have the mutations for the cancer variant of this, but essentially its kinda on the rare side to say the least either way. Don't bother looking it up, everything is about the cancer version haha. I was the first patient for my hematologist specialist in the cancer ward of the hospital to be pregnant and have the condition overall. I am happy its not blood cancer though, yikes. They do want me to test again after stabilizing/past the delivery and a bit into the new life rodeo to see if I return to normal. I am just glad I didn't end up a case for a bone marrow biopsy.
It does I think make me high risk, but all the doctors have told me I am pretty healthy otherwise, like past the thicc low oxygen blood in my system. Some of my daily routine is changing because of it, but for the most part the update for here is I may be switching a bit to more personal art and small batches or so of holiday commissions or just post for sale doodles while I am spawning the wee one. I've been slower for these reasons, but I am more pepped up now that I am into the second trimester. I also have much less blood pokey pokey being done haha.
It is super hard to find info on, past like a reddit sub-group for people that have the secondary, not primary version. Granted, like no one is preggers in the group so there is not much I can glean from doctors or dr google for the now times.
As for my condition if pregnant folk do have it, its because they are dehydrated like extremely... which I wasn't, or have apnea, which I didn't, or have abdominal issues, which I didn't or it was found because of routine blood work and they have the mutated gene blood marrow cancer. Which I also didn't haha. Most blood work the numbers go down due to a lot of folk having anemic issues. Which was not even an issue for me. I did some early screening to see how my blood sugar is, and even that was fine.
I am going to assume it might be the increase of blood flow as a symptom of having a kiddo in ya, and I already had healthy range but higher numbers in that regard, which pushed it over the limit.
maybe it's the price of globalisation where folks get to intermix which wouldn't have to begin with in earlier times, or in only rare cases. one day maybe mankind will all look alike, mixing all the obvious traits into one because of all that travel and interbreeding...
which reminds me of fanwritings where many different species can easily interbreed and create offspring, and the author forgets the implications of all of the populace ending up with a common trait off all the species involved.