Campaign Story

My name is Brittany Werner and my husband’s name is Alexander. We have been trying to have a baby since 2018. We got a positive pregnancy test in 2018 but unfortunately miscarried 6 weeks into that pregnancy. Jump to July 2019 and another positive pregnancy test. We get the blood tests and all looks good. We get an ultrasound but it was still too early to see anything. The next week I started bleeding. 2 days later I had severe pain in my lower right abdomen so I go to the emergency room at St Marys medical center in Langhorne. They do blood tests and an ultrasound and the blood tests come back showing I am miscarrying and the ultrasound showed fluid in my abdomen and what they said was a cyst. They sent me home and told me to go to my OBGYN. The next day I woke up in even more pain and went to Abington Memorial hospital in Abington. They did all the blood tests and an internal as well as an ultrasound. They found I had an ectopic pregnancy in my right fallopian tube that was about to rupture. They said St. Mary’s should have never discharged me and I needed emergency surgery. On the way up to the operating room the fallopian tube completely ruptured. I have never felt pain like that in my entire life. They removed the entire right fallopian tube as it could not be saved. The surgeon told me and my husband that I had 400ml of blood in my abdomen and that I shouldn’t have woken up that morning. This all happened July 19th, 2019. We haven’t even had a faint positive test since then. We have had some fertility testing but it is proving to be much more expensive than we thought. We just want to start our family and be the parents we know we are meant to be.