My name is Esther. Here is my story.

My name is Esther. I am 51 years old and I live in Kingscliff Australia . I have been Living with SS for 19 years diagnosed only 6 years ago.

Here is my story.

When I was pregnant with my second son in 2004, I had a large bleed at 23 weeks and received a blood transfusion, thankfully the bleeding stopped and I was put on bed rest with placenta previa for the remainder of the pregnancy.

At 38 weeks I had an elective caesarean, after our healthy baby boy was born, it came time to removal the placenta.

This is when we found out I had placenta accrete and my doctor couldn’t stop the bleeding I was put under a general aesthetic and woke up many hours later in intensive care.