"I'm one of the two possible daddy's." --- said in the hallway, quite loudly and proudly, standing and looking through the nursery window at the "possible" child.
And to a social worker -"I went to Big Huge Medical Center ER to find out if I was pregnant because I was throwing up all the time and the doctor there told me I should smoke some pot to help with my appetite."
And when told she should get her records from the ER - her reply was that he just told her "on the sly."
Quite a bunch of people there today.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
We have our calendar
We had an appointment with the RE on Friday the 13th. (I wonder what kind of omen that is.) It was our IVF consult and shot teaching for DH. But we got our calendar for our IVF cycle. I started BCPs that day and will be on them until 3/3, with an appointment on 3/2 for an ultrasound and FSH. Then we have a tentative appointment on 3/8 for the baseline U/S and will start stims. And finally tentative ER of 3/19 and a tentative ET of 3/24. I can't believe we're actually here.
I'm actually a little stressed out about those dates. When I scheduled my big exam, I was sure that I had timed things right that at most, I'd be on BCPs when taking the test. The karyotype was supposed to take 3-4 weeks to come back and I was sure I'd have a week of Provera to take to bring on AF. Instead, the karyotype took only 2 weeks, and my body decided to O on it's own for once. So now the tentative baseline appointment date is the day before the test, so I'm really hoping that it doesn't get pushed back for any reason. As it is, I'm in a handbell choir at church and March 8th is one of the Sundays that we play. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem - I should be able to fit the appointment in between services. Plus, I think I have a back up for that - I just have to talk to my friend about it.
And finally, this is completely minor, and I shouldn't even be worrying about it. But, my mom bought me tickets to go see the NKOTB for my birthday - and the concert is 3/20 - the day after my tentative retrieval. I would just feel so bad if I couldn't go since my mom spent all this money on the tickets. I know she would understand, but I'd just feel guilty. Plus - I really want to go! Though admittedly, not as much as I want to have a baby. I think I just figured that one out pretty easily. What's $140 in tickets compared to risking something going wrong with my IVF cycle.
I guess I'll just have to hope for the best.
I'm actually a little stressed out about those dates. When I scheduled my big exam, I was sure that I had timed things right that at most, I'd be on BCPs when taking the test. The karyotype was supposed to take 3-4 weeks to come back and I was sure I'd have a week of Provera to take to bring on AF. Instead, the karyotype took only 2 weeks, and my body decided to O on it's own for once. So now the tentative baseline appointment date is the day before the test, so I'm really hoping that it doesn't get pushed back for any reason. As it is, I'm in a handbell choir at church and March 8th is one of the Sundays that we play. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem - I should be able to fit the appointment in between services. Plus, I think I have a back up for that - I just have to talk to my friend about it.
And finally, this is completely minor, and I shouldn't even be worrying about it. But, my mom bought me tickets to go see the NKOTB for my birthday - and the concert is 3/20 - the day after my tentative retrieval. I would just feel so bad if I couldn't go since my mom spent all this money on the tickets. I know she would understand, but I'd just feel guilty. Plus - I really want to go! Though admittedly, not as much as I want to have a baby. I think I just figured that one out pretty easily. What's $140 in tickets compared to risking something going wrong with my IVF cycle.
I guess I'll just have to hope for the best.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Days
Today is my 30th birthday. I knew this birthday was not going to be any fun if I wasn't KU yet. And I spent most of the day studying. We did have brunch with some friends this morning, and I got to hold their adorable 5 and a half month old while dad ate. But the big excitement was last weekend.
When I got home from work last Friday, I walked into the house and DH was sitting on his recliner, which wasn't unusual. But, he was supposed to be leaving for an event at church shortly, and the dining room table was set - with three places - and there were some red Gerber daisies on the table. I come around the corner, and there are my sister and a good friend who now lives in Boston sitting there! They had been planning this surprise since last August, and I had no idea! They had made dinner and bought not one, but two cakes since our dog had gotten to the first cake. The three of us spent the evening talking and laughing. It was such a great surprise.
The next day, we went to a small art museum in the city near us, went and got manis/pedis, and then went out to dinner. I should have suspected something was up because my sister wasn't feeling well at one point, and I kept saying we should just go home, but she kept saying she was just fine. Even though she didn't look fine at all. So, when we got home after dinner, DH's car was in the garage, but the lights were all out when we walked inside - and it was only 7:30. There was no way DH was up in bed. I looked to my left and saw the streamers in the doorway and realized I had been surprised for the second time in one weekend. It was just a few friends, but we had some cake from my favorite bakery and played some Wii. It was a great weekend and I still can't believe DH managed to surprise me twice in one weekend.
When I got home from work last Friday, I walked into the house and DH was sitting on his recliner, which wasn't unusual. But, he was supposed to be leaving for an event at church shortly, and the dining room table was set - with three places - and there were some red Gerber daisies on the table. I come around the corner, and there are my sister and a good friend who now lives in Boston sitting there! They had been planning this surprise since last August, and I had no idea! They had made dinner and bought not one, but two cakes since our dog had gotten to the first cake. The three of us spent the evening talking and laughing. It was such a great surprise.
The next day, we went to a small art museum in the city near us, went and got manis/pedis, and then went out to dinner. I should have suspected something was up because my sister wasn't feeling well at one point, and I kept saying we should just go home, but she kept saying she was just fine. Even though she didn't look fine at all. So, when we got home after dinner, DH's car was in the garage, but the lights were all out when we walked inside - and it was only 7:30. There was no way DH was up in bed. I looked to my left and saw the streamers in the doorway and realized I had been surprised for the second time in one weekend. It was just a few friends, but we had some cake from my favorite bakery and played some Wii. It was a great weekend and I still can't believe DH managed to surprise me twice in one weekend.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
AF is here
I guess I really did O at some point, because AF arrived this morning! I was actually going to stop on my way home from work today to pick up a HPT, just in case, because we have an appointment with the RE on Friday for our IVF consult/shot teaching. And I didn't want to go if a was KU, right? But no need. AF found me. So I get to start BCPs Friday for our IVF cycle! And I have an appointment March 2nd for an U/S and FSH. My nurse is still putting our whole plan together so I don't have any other dates, but I'm guessing our ER/ET will be somewhere mid-to-late March if I'm estimating things correctly from different calendars I've seen around. I can't believe that our IVF cycle is already here.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
25 Random Things
I've seen this going around and it looked like fun, so I decided to join in. I have a real post coming. I had two surprises this weekend (and no, it's not a BFP) that kept me busy.
1. I love having my birthday on Valentine's Day.
2. I would have love to have been a ballet dancer.
3. I have lived in a castle.
4. Though I've only had three graduations, I have 5 diplomas - 2 from high school because they signed the wrong principal's name and 2 from undergrad because the school changed it's name right after I graduated.
5. I've lived in two different houses on the same street in two different towns.
6. My cat is named after a character in Pride and Prejudice and my dog is named after a dancer on So You Think You Can Dance.
7. I first read Gone With The Wind when I was in seventh grade and have read it about once a year ever since.
8. The first concert I ever saw was The Monkees when I was 8 years old. I saw them again the summer before my senior year of high school.
9. I decided to become a physician assistant when I went to a presentation on them at a career day my sophomore year of high school - I had never heard of them before that.
10. I love my job because I get to work with babies every day.
11. I met my husband in a church handbell choir in high school. We dated for three weeks and broke up and then didn't start dating again until almost exactly 9 years later.
12. I've never been further west then the Mississippi River, but would love to take a cross country trip some day, stopping at all the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical sites along the way.
13. I love watching The Big Bang Theory because it reminds me of a lot of my friends, especially my friends from high school.
14. My favorite dessert is Breyer's Vanilla Fudge Twirl ice cream on dessert shells with strawberries and chocolate syrup. And whipped cream. And it has to be Breyer's ice cream.
15. I love reading blogs - I have 168 subscriptions currently in my Google Reader.
16. The first time I ever flew was a high school trip to Italy. I was an amazing trip and I'll never forget flying over the Alps and seeing the tops of the mountains peaking out over the clouds.
17. I am a Certified Car Seat Safety Technician and it is now a pet peeve of mine whenever I'm out seeing car seats with things that shouldn't be on them or not adjusted properly. And they almost never are.
18. I was in a newspaper article in elementary school about getting a computer in our classroom. It was such a big deal to have a computer in the classroom they did a story on it. Now we have three in our house.
19. One of my favorite parts of watching Jon and Kate plus 8 was looking for landmarks that I knew since they didn't live too far from me. Now that they've moved, I doubt that will happen anymore. The kids are too cute to stop watching though.
20. I'm extremely introverted. If I'm around people too long, I have to get away and spend time alone. And yet, I chose a profession in which I have to interact with many people every day.
21. In case you couldn't tell before, I love to read. I currently have 8 books sitting next to my bed to be read that I got for Christmas, including the Twilight series. Unfortunately I've told myself I can't start until I take my recertification exam for my physician assistant certification, and that's not for another month.
22. When DH and I bought our house a year and a half ago, it was the first time I had ever lived in a house not attached to any other houses. Unless you count the one that was a converted garage in the back yard of another house, which I do not.
23. I got married, started a new job with over an hour commute and moved within a span of 2 months in 2006. And the move only cut the commute by 10-15 minutes.
24. I can sit and play Oblivion on Xbox 360 for hours.
25. I'm a big Nascar fan, which for some reason tends to surprise people who don't know me very well. And I have been as long as I can remember. I was a big Davey Allison fan, and then started following Jeff Gordon when Allison died.
1. I love having my birthday on Valentine's Day.
2. I would have love to have been a ballet dancer.
3. I have lived in a castle.
4. Though I've only had three graduations, I have 5 diplomas - 2 from high school because they signed the wrong principal's name and 2 from undergrad because the school changed it's name right after I graduated.
5. I've lived in two different houses on the same street in two different towns.
6. My cat is named after a character in Pride and Prejudice and my dog is named after a dancer on So You Think You Can Dance.
7. I first read Gone With The Wind when I was in seventh grade and have read it about once a year ever since.
8. The first concert I ever saw was The Monkees when I was 8 years old. I saw them again the summer before my senior year of high school.
9. I decided to become a physician assistant when I went to a presentation on them at a career day my sophomore year of high school - I had never heard of them before that.
10. I love my job because I get to work with babies every day.
11. I met my husband in a church handbell choir in high school. We dated for three weeks and broke up and then didn't start dating again until almost exactly 9 years later.
12. I've never been further west then the Mississippi River, but would love to take a cross country trip some day, stopping at all the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical sites along the way.
13. I love watching The Big Bang Theory because it reminds me of a lot of my friends, especially my friends from high school.
14. My favorite dessert is Breyer's Vanilla Fudge Twirl ice cream on dessert shells with strawberries and chocolate syrup. And whipped cream. And it has to be Breyer's ice cream.
15. I love reading blogs - I have 168 subscriptions currently in my Google Reader.
16. The first time I ever flew was a high school trip to Italy. I was an amazing trip and I'll never forget flying over the Alps and seeing the tops of the mountains peaking out over the clouds.
17. I am a Certified Car Seat Safety Technician and it is now a pet peeve of mine whenever I'm out seeing car seats with things that shouldn't be on them or not adjusted properly. And they almost never are.
18. I was in a newspaper article in elementary school about getting a computer in our classroom. It was such a big deal to have a computer in the classroom they did a story on it. Now we have three in our house.
19. One of my favorite parts of watching Jon and Kate plus 8 was looking for landmarks that I knew since they didn't live too far from me. Now that they've moved, I doubt that will happen anymore. The kids are too cute to stop watching though.
20. I'm extremely introverted. If I'm around people too long, I have to get away and spend time alone. And yet, I chose a profession in which I have to interact with many people every day.
21. In case you couldn't tell before, I love to read. I currently have 8 books sitting next to my bed to be read that I got for Christmas, including the Twilight series. Unfortunately I've told myself I can't start until I take my recertification exam for my physician assistant certification, and that's not for another month.
22. When DH and I bought our house a year and a half ago, it was the first time I had ever lived in a house not attached to any other houses. Unless you count the one that was a converted garage in the back yard of another house, which I do not.
23. I got married, started a new job with over an hour commute and moved within a span of 2 months in 2006. And the move only cut the commute by 10-15 minutes.
24. I can sit and play Oblivion on Xbox 360 for hours.
25. I'm a big Nascar fan, which for some reason tends to surprise people who don't know me very well. And I have been as long as I can remember. I was a big Davey Allison fan, and then started following Jeff Gordon when Allison died.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Apparently I O'd
When I was at the RE on Monday, I asked if maybe they would add a progesterone to my CMP. I was on CD40 and pretty sure that I hadn't O'd at all. I wasn't keeping great track of my temps, but every time I've O'd on my own I've had a ton of EWCM, and I hadn't seen that at all. So I figured I'd need some Provera to get AF going before I started on the BCPs for our IVF cycle. My nurse called today, though, and said that my progesterone levels were ovulatory. I have no idea when it was. I'm guessing it was some time last week when I was taking all those cold medicines. I have a feeling the antihistamines and decongestants affected my system. So it looks like there won't be any "last cycle before IVF getting KU" here since DH has been away since Sunday and I was sick all last week.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The RE waiting room
I had to go the RE yesterday morning to get some blood drawn for monitoring of my metformin. I always feel a little odd sitting in the RE waiting room. I know all the women (and occassionally men) are going through the same thing I am. I feel a sort of kinship with them even though I've never talked to any of them. I wonder what stage they are at, what treatments they are getting. There was a girl getting her blood drawn next to me yesterday, and I'm pretty sure she was in the 2ww. They were talking about how some people prefer PIO shots to progesterone suppositories, and the nurse told her around what time they'd be calling. So I'm thinking she might have even been there for a beta - that's the only time that they've given me a time. It's just usually "in the afternoon." I keep thinking about her and wondering what the results were.
And yet, I'm almost a little embarrassed at times - that feeling of knowing what other people are there for without having to be told. Any other doctor's office you walk into you can't tell what the person across from you is there for - if they're getting a refill on their high blood pressure meds or have a sprained ankle. It's just like there's no privacy when you're at the RE. It's such an odd feeling. I must say, though, that my RE has the most up to date magazine collection in his waiting room that I've ever seen at a doctor's office. There is always the most recent Soap Opera Update - so at least I always have something to read!
And yet, I'm almost a little embarrassed at times - that feeling of knowing what other people are there for without having to be told. Any other doctor's office you walk into you can't tell what the person across from you is there for - if they're getting a refill on their high blood pressure meds or have a sprained ankle. It's just like there's no privacy when you're at the RE. It's such an odd feeling. I must say, though, that my RE has the most up to date magazine collection in his waiting room that I've ever seen at a doctor's office. There is always the most recent Soap Opera Update - so at least I always have something to read!
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