Emergency Room Series:..But Why?

Things are really not how they seem. .......

Sometimes if not most times as humans we get distracted by what we see or what society wants us to see that we forget that there could more going on underneath. We see the glam and glamour of people on social media, their 'luxury' lifestyle, 'perfect' relationship goals that are enviable. 

Until you realise that nobody or no relationship is that perfect as they paint it, the better for you. Anyways, to the story of today...

So this woman was brought in to the ER in the morning. She was bleeding from the vagina. She was in painful distress and highly irritable. She was brought in by two ladies who I assume were her friends. She was weak and complained of being dizzy. She was restless too and acting slightly confused. Her blood pressure was low and she had a rapid heart beat and breathing rate too. 

When asked for her bio data, one of her friends mentioned a name while the other one mentioned another name, probably to protect the woman's privacy. 

She was commenced on oxygen to aid her breathing and she had blood samples taken for series of tests. The tests revealed she was pregnant and that she had a low blood level too as she was said to have been bleeding for about 4days. 

When asked if she knew she was pregnant, she said she knew. She was then taken to the scan room to have an urgent scan. The scan showed she had a 14weeks old baby and the baby had some sort of fetal abnormality whereby the brain of the baby was partially out of the skull. 

The doctors requested that the woman's husband be called but her friends claimed he had travelled out of the country. She had some injections to stop the bleeding which was severe and had big lumps of clots in it and blood was arranged for her to be transfused with. Her friends were told to leave, they refused initially claiming they were her best friends but had to leave when a doctor threatened to call security to bounce them.

 She was asked series of questions by the doctors. She explained that she was on family planning and that her family planning method was IUD. IUD is a tiny device that's inserted in the uterus and is a long-term, reversible, and one of the most effective birth control methods. She said she had it inserted 6 months ago at a clinic and against her husband's knowledge as they had children already and she wanted a break. She said that she was surprised when she found out she was pregnant, she asked for help from one of her friends to get rid of it, who told her to insert misoprostol pills into her vagina to induce an abortion and drink dry gin. She said when she did it the first time, she saw only little blood which meant that the abortion failed, so she doubled the dose and repeated it 3weeks after, then the blood came, with severe cramps. She said the blood kept increasing in volume with big clots and it made her feel dizzy and faint.

 She begged the doctors not to grant any interviews or answer anyone who comes asking to know what had happened, she made it seem like she was an entertainer of some sort. I think it was the first abortion attempt that caused the baby to be deformed.

I was just looking at her, lost for words as she talked. 

Anyways, we asked her to sign and fill a consent form for her to have the remaining contents of the baby removed and to empty the uterus of the clots which she did, a procedure we call MVA. The IUD was removed. After the procedure, she was transfused and became stable. She also had antibiotics and other medications. Then the unexpected happened!

Unknown to her, her husband's car which her friend drove her in to the hospital had a tracker of some sort which was connected to an app on his phone. He said he had been calling her several times since he got home and noticed her phone was at home and the car was gone. He said he managed to trace the car. 

At the reception, he saw her two friends before they saw him. I'm sure if they had seen him first, they would have dodged him. He had seen his car in the car park and asked where his wife was. They weren't giving straight answers so he got angry and was creating a scene at the reception. He was then told where she was. Due to the fact that she had told the doctors they shouldn't tell anyone what had happened, they had to lie she only had a low blood level and was feeling dizzy so they were boosting it with some blood and that there was nothing more. 

I was dazed. Her husband felt pity for her, held her hands and assured her she was going to be okay. He even sang to her and stroked her hair.
. Usually, we give d dead baby to the mother to trash or bury after an MVA but since the husband wouldn't leave her side for us to give her the remains, it had to be trashed in the bin. I wonder why she can't discuss family planning with her husband and why she had to have an abortion. I wonder how she got an IUD inserted because both parties need to consent to it before it is done.


It is dangerous to induce an abortion without help or advise from a medical professional. She inserted a very high dose of the drug and I count her lucky to still be alive. She could have gone as far as having a rupture or even a heart attack. what does dry gin have to do with anything?. Poor baby, poor husband......

And somewhere else, a woman is still trying to conceive.