MRI Results

"Hi, Mom. Just calling to let you know the results of the MRI..."

"Oh, really? How'd it go?"

"Well, I have a bicornuate uterus. The right side is the size of a regular uterus, but the left side is underdeveloped... and that's the side that I was pregnant on. The catch is that the doctor said that both sides do not communicate with each other, which is fancy talk for 'does not have access to each other.' The underdeveloped side is closed off from the other side, as well as from my cervix."

"Mmm Hmm..." My mom's answer told me that she was processing what I was saying, so I continued.

"Okay, Mom. Imagine this: In your mind, draw a heart, but one half of the heart is bigger than the other. Then, split the heart in half. The bigger side has access to my cervix and is normal. The other half is smaller and doesn't have access to my cervix at all...

Right now, they have ordered another test: the hysterosalpingogram. That's the test where they put dye in my uterus. After that, they will be able to tell if there is an opening in my uterine wall at all."

"But how did you get pregnant in that side?"

"No one knows for sure." I laughed, "Could be immaculate conception...

But chances are that the sperm was able to travel through a small opening to that side of the uterus... Another long shot is that sperm traveled up the good uterus, through the fallopian tube, out into my body cavity, down through the other fallopian tube, and into the smaller side of the uterus, where it implanted. But that theory is probably one in a zillion...

Once I was pregnant though, the baby grew to the maximum size that that side could. But because the baby couldn't misscarry out my cervix, the top of my uterus ruptured instead. I personally think that, whether there is an opening to that uterus or not, they will need to get rid of the useless left horn of the uterus.

But, on a positive note... I guess at this point we can assume that Scott's sperm has great swimmers..."

"Yeah, like Michael Phelps!"

I laughed.

But then I cringed. I suddenly realized that I just joked about Scott's sperm to my MOM. Weird.