It was late Winter of 2004. I was 16 weeks pregnant with my second child. That fateful Wednesday morning, I had a procedure called cerclage (A cerclage is a stitch placed around a pregnant woman’s cervix to prevent it from opening prematurely https://www.obgynofatlanta.com/cerclage). Pain on Right Quadrant Hours later, as I was home recovering, I started feeling pain on the right side of my abdomen. At first, it didn’t bother me too much, and I thought it was just because of the cerclage. But, the pain progressed rather quickly from being benign to extreme pain. My husband came home immediately, and he rushed me to the emergency department. It…
