Well, my friends, I am a research guinea pig!
Today I was poked and prodded in ways I've never before experienced.
I had a balloon inserted into my uterus, inflated, and had a saline solution that felt like liquid fire flushed through to make certain my tubes were open (and they are). It felt like 10 years, but really I think it was about 10 minutes, including the ultrasound - during which the balloon was inflated. I have over 30 cysts on each ovary. I almost started crying. I didn't want to hear that. Then they said these were not problematic cysts, just proof of my PCOS, so I felt a little better.
I had 10 vials of blood taken from me on an empty stomach that had been fasting since about 7pm yesterday.
I almost passed out from the blood draw (the whole hearing became muffled, I felt dizzy and was seeing spots thing), but thankfully I had a protein bar in my purse and some gatorade in the car, so I was okay after that.
I had my annual pap and breast exam.
They checked my vitals (and my nervous, racing heart made my blood pressure look too high at 135/95).
I've been cramping all day - still feels like liquid fire. "it will feel like menstrual cramps" HAHA no, not at all.
I have to start provera again in about 10 days after my bloodwork and pap results come back. This will have been my shortest cycle yet.
I start the study meds on CD3 of the next cycle. Less than a month away now!
Holy cow, I could be pregnant in a month. Or at least sometime in the next 5 cycles!! It's been a long road, and with a lot of bumps and uncertainty. I hope that this study gives us the result we've been waiting for.
And if not, then I'm already under the care of a specialist, and we'll be moving on to injectible meds and IUI.
At least we have a path that we're happy with!!
Happy Monday!!
Monday, April 19, 2010
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Positive Moments
In the midst of my terrible hormone-induced headache, insatiable appetite and the intense desire to lay down under my desk and take a nap, I have decided to battle the worst side effect of side effects - bad moods and irritability - with 10 days of positive thinking.
Today is Day 3 of 10 days of provera ... I mean 10 days of positivity.
My positive moment of today is that I will be going to cycle class tonight at the gym for 60min of amazing cardio. I love how I feel when I leave that class, even when I feel like I might die during the ride. I'm also happy that Mr. FEO took a sick day today and will be home with me tonight! (he's not sick, just had a long day teaching yesterday).
Have a POSITIVE day, my friends!!
Today is Day 3 of 10 days of provera ... I mean 10 days of positivity.
My positive moment of today is that I will be going to cycle class tonight at the gym for 60min of amazing cardio. I love how I feel when I leave that class, even when I feel like I might die during the ride. I'm also happy that Mr. FEO took a sick day today and will be home with me tonight! (he's not sick, just had a long day teaching yesterday).
Have a POSITIVE day, my friends!!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Need to go private!
Faithful readers,
I need to make my blog private for awhile ... please send me an email or leave a comment with your email address, so I can send you the password information if you still want to be a reader.
I'll be making the change over the weekend.
THANK YOU FRIENDS!!
I need to make my blog private for awhile ... please send me an email or leave a comment with your email address, so I can send you the password information if you still want to be a reader.
I'll be making the change over the weekend.
THANK YOU FRIENDS!!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Love and Hate.
I both hate and love Mr. FEO's work schedule.
The love part - we sometimes have random days off together, and someday if we're ever lucky enough to be parents, we won't really need daycare since he's home a lot.
The hate part is much more extensive. I have gone to many weddings and parties on my own because Mr. FEO is stuck at the station for 24, 48, 96 or however many hours in a row. I have another wedding to attend in October....
(SIDEBAR: I just got totally interrupted by our office senior aides asking me useless questions about what mail I get - um, I get the mail addressed to me???? And they still had my maiden name on the form they were using - I changed my name 18 months ago and there's a big name plate on my cube AND mailbox in the back ... anyway, I lost my train of thought - GAH, I'm so ADD sometimes)
....Where was I? Oh yeah... I'm doing the reading at church for the wedding I'm attending in October. I'm bitter about not being a bridesmaid - this was my closest college friend who I lived with for 6 years - but that's beside the point. Mr. FEO can't come to this wedding with me because he's working. So I'm bringing one of my girlfriends because frankly, I don't really even want to go. I'm really hurt by the fact she didn't even ask me to be a bridesmaid. She was a bridesmaid in my wedding AND did one of our readings.
So I hate going to weddings and parties alone. That part sucks about Mr. FEO's work schedule.
But something else that sucks? If he wants someone to work for him without having to pay it back, we have to PAY the other person. For example, he's coming home from work around 9pm tonight since he has to teach at the college tomorrow morning. So someone is coming in for the second 12 hours of the shift ... this week and next week. We have to pay him union rate for the hours so that Mr. FEO won't have to work two 12 hour shifts for him in return. $360. So all the money he'll earn teaching is going right to this kid. What's the point????
The plus side of that I guess is that he'll sleep in bed with me tonight. <3
I think that's the hardest part ... some people say I'm fortunate that my husband is gone a lot. I don't necessarily agree. I am sometimes jealous of my friends who have husbands who work normal jobs and are home every night. I mean, can you see how having him gone a lot is probably hindering our TTC efforts too? Not that I ovulate, but if I did?
Was there really a point to this post? I don't think so. But I'm a bad blogger and wanted to say SOMETHING!!!
The love part - we sometimes have random days off together, and someday if we're ever lucky enough to be parents, we won't really need daycare since he's home a lot.
The hate part is much more extensive. I have gone to many weddings and parties on my own because Mr. FEO is stuck at the station for 24, 48, 96 or however many hours in a row. I have another wedding to attend in October....
(SIDEBAR: I just got totally interrupted by our office senior aides asking me useless questions about what mail I get - um, I get the mail addressed to me???? And they still had my maiden name on the form they were using - I changed my name 18 months ago and there's a big name plate on my cube AND mailbox in the back ... anyway, I lost my train of thought - GAH, I'm so ADD sometimes)
....Where was I? Oh yeah... I'm doing the reading at church for the wedding I'm attending in October. I'm bitter about not being a bridesmaid - this was my closest college friend who I lived with for 6 years - but that's beside the point. Mr. FEO can't come to this wedding with me because he's working. So I'm bringing one of my girlfriends because frankly, I don't really even want to go. I'm really hurt by the fact she didn't even ask me to be a bridesmaid. She was a bridesmaid in my wedding AND did one of our readings.
So I hate going to weddings and parties alone. That part sucks about Mr. FEO's work schedule.
But something else that sucks? If he wants someone to work for him without having to pay it back, we have to PAY the other person. For example, he's coming home from work around 9pm tonight since he has to teach at the college tomorrow morning. So someone is coming in for the second 12 hours of the shift ... this week and next week. We have to pay him union rate for the hours so that Mr. FEO won't have to work two 12 hour shifts for him in return. $360. So all the money he'll earn teaching is going right to this kid. What's the point????
The plus side of that I guess is that he'll sleep in bed with me tonight. <3
I think that's the hardest part ... some people say I'm fortunate that my husband is gone a lot. I don't necessarily agree. I am sometimes jealous of my friends who have husbands who work normal jobs and are home every night. I mean, can you see how having him gone a lot is probably hindering our TTC efforts too? Not that I ovulate, but if I did?
Was there really a point to this post? I don't think so. But I'm a bad blogger and wanted to say SOMETHING!!!
Monday, March 15, 2010
A trip to the Windy City
Two weeks ago, Mr. FEO and I took the train to Chicago to celebrate his 37th birthday. It was a great trip, so I thought I'd share just a couple of pictures from that weekend.
This is an old fire station, and of course we had to take a picture of it. We usually scout out a few different stations on our trips to Chicago, and this one was my favorite one that we saw this time.
When it's just the two of us traveling together, it's hard to get pictures together, unless they're self portraits, so this was a unique opportunity to take a self portrait in a mirrored sphere in Millenium Park, so you can actually see all of us, and not just our heads!
The building with the gold top is the Carbide and Carbon Building - The Hard Rock Hotel, where we always stay when we visit Chicago.
The hotel sign!!
This picture is one that I really like from this trip. The reflection on the water is really pretty, and it was a beautiful clear evening!
This is an old fire station, and of course we had to take a picture of it. We usually scout out a few different stations on our trips to Chicago, and this one was my favorite one that we saw this time.
When it's just the two of us traveling together, it's hard to get pictures together, unless they're self portraits, so this was a unique opportunity to take a self portrait in a mirrored sphere in Millenium Park, so you can actually see all of us, and not just our heads!
The building with the gold top is the Carbide and Carbon Building - The Hard Rock Hotel, where we always stay when we visit Chicago.
The hotel sign!!
This picture is one that I really like from this trip. The reflection on the water is really pretty, and it was a beautiful clear evening!On our trip to Chicago I also discovered that I like Blue Moon beer. And maybe I drank a few ... and although I'd lost 9 lbs before going on the trip, I gained 4 lbs back while we were there. How that happens over a 4 day weekend, I will never understand, but whatever.
As of yesterday morning, I have officially lost 10 lbs!!! So it took me an extra 2 weeks to get to this mini-goal because of the backwards movement I had from our trip, but I am so happy!!
All in all, 2010 is turning out pretty good so far!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Looks like we'll always be condo dwellers.
I'm not happy to report that Mr. FEO and I found out over the weekend that we did not get the house that we offered on.
Why, you ask?
Because the bank accepted the other offer.
There were shady dealings going on. We're pretty sure that the realtor bought this house herself. We also don't think that the offer they accepted was put in until after ours (because she waited until we submitted ours to actually put hers in, and then made ours the 2nd offer). Additionally, we got a call on Wednesday last week that she was going to call us on Friday with a counter offer on our offer. When the call came on Friday, it was for her to tell us that we didn't get the house. She is such a lying scammer. Now we're waiting until this Friday, in case the deal falls through on the financing, but then we're going to demand a formal letter of rejection of our offer ... which basically means that the house can't sell for less than our offer.
It's maddening, I tell you!!!
In happier news ... I've lost 9 lbs (well, probably 10 but I had a lot to drink the night before my weigh in, so we'll see next week!) in the last 5 weeks. This is a refreshing change, and I'm SO glad to finally see some progress in the right direction!!
Why, you ask?
Because the bank accepted the other offer.
There were shady dealings going on. We're pretty sure that the realtor bought this house herself. We also don't think that the offer they accepted was put in until after ours (because she waited until we submitted ours to actually put hers in, and then made ours the 2nd offer). Additionally, we got a call on Wednesday last week that she was going to call us on Friday with a counter offer on our offer. When the call came on Friday, it was for her to tell us that we didn't get the house. She is such a lying scammer. Now we're waiting until this Friday, in case the deal falls through on the financing, but then we're going to demand a formal letter of rejection of our offer ... which basically means that the house can't sell for less than our offer.
It's maddening, I tell you!!!
In happier news ... I've lost 9 lbs (well, probably 10 but I had a lot to drink the night before my weigh in, so we'll see next week!) in the last 5 weeks. This is a refreshing change, and I'm SO glad to finally see some progress in the right direction!!
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