Oh 2014 we had such high hopes for you!
The Mr. and I were super excited to be moving onto the next step in our fertility journey. Super O with an IUI. Everything was set up, all we had to do was get one last test done... a hysteroscope and then we could move on and get Ovulating!
Our appointment was set up for Feb 11 but unfortunately I still had AF so we had to change it to Feb 14. We show up and I'm excited to get everything going. It's time to take that next step, wayyy past the time. We get the first test done, ultrasound and everything is OK. Moving onto the Hysteroscope the RE first notices that my lining is wavy, when it should be smooth after AF and then BAM I have a huge polyp at the top of my cervix. This halts everything. I now have to get surgery to get it removed. Lucky for me my RE knew how much we wanted to move on and got us in with a local OBGYN who had surgery time on Feb 26th, otherwise we would have had to wait till April for surgery!
We went to the Jim Pattison Outpatient care and Surgery centre and everything went well. Our surgery time got bumped a bit later but other than that everything was great. I was a crying mess when I first woke up from the anesthetic, which is usual for me. They gave me something for the pain and I floated away. I had a couple days off work and then only worked 1/2 days for my last two days of work for that week.
On Sunday (March 2) I started to feel funny. My back was sore and I could not get comfortable to save my life. I kept thinking to my self this has nothing to do with the Polyp removal and D&C the pain is too high up for it. I kept pacing around the hour and trying to go to the bathroom, thinking that maybe it was an air bubble. Then my abdomen started to really hurt. Right side just under my ribs and then I started to vomit. It was the worse pain I have ever experienced. The Mr has never seen me like this and after 3 hours of being in ever increasing pain I pulled the tuff girl card and said take me to the ER.
We arrived at the ER at 10pm, the pain was just getting worse even though I had nothing left in my tummy. I got in pretty quick as one of the ladies that I know from my Weddingbells days works there and saw me (not my finest moment, puked on shirt, messy hair, Old miss matched PJs) but she saw how in distress I was and got me in. I saw the ER Dr. at about 2am and he said I needed an Ultra-sound. Then he went off shift and we were forgotten about.... until I couldn't take the pain anymore and asked for more pain meds. By then it was 8am and then nurse asked when I had been re-admitted. The Mr and I were a little confused by this and stated that we had never left the ER and had been there all night. Turns out the Night Doc said I was to go home and return for an ultrasound in the morning but I was never actually discharged. The new ER Dr came and saw us, apologized and then we were on our way for the ultrasound at 11am. By 1:30pm on Monday March 3 we knew that I had Gallstones and would need to see a surgeon. I was told to stay home from work for a week, given lots of meds and then sent home. We called the surgeon as soon as I got home and we have an appointment on the 14th.
The first 2 days at home sucked, I could not keep anything down, not even water. Nothing hurts more than puking up water and bile. Yesterday I was finally able to keep down water & Jello. Today I can add to that eggs and some plain pasta!
The only good thing about this is I've lost 6 lbs! I now weigh less than the Mr. for the first time in our whole relationship!
So right now I am hopped up on pain meds and gravol. I will see the surgeon for my gallstones next week. If I do not have AF in the next 4 weeks my RE wants us to use the old standard to get AF and then we will continue on our in/fertility journey. Hopefully in 6 weeks I will get the results from the polyp.
Until then... I'm going to keep a positive out look on life, eat healthy and lose more weight!
The Year of 2013
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How do you sum up a whole year?
2013 you have been hard.
At the start of this year we lost a great man.
Rodger was the best father-in-law a girl could have. Never judgmental, always funny and insightful, he was so supportive. It was the only thing I could do in the end to be the same for him. The Mr & I were there right till the end. Even though I have dealt with death often his passing affected me on a much deeper level. I cannot even try to sum up this wonderful man, the words escape me and I cannot describe the feelings that are with me everyday.
For now all I can say is I Miss You & Love You.
After Rodgers passing MIL (Jane) decided she needed to get away and so with BIL (Nick), the Mr and Myself a trip to Las Vegas was planned for April.
It was a great place to forget. So many things to see and do. The heat, omg the heat was wonderful. Going to the Beach in April (the hotel we stayed at had a beach pool) was awesome. Jane and I went and had a little R&R at the spa while the boys went and played with Guns. We saw a Cirque show, Penn & Tell, the water fountian show and Peep Show. We ate, oh my word did we eat. Rainforest Cafe, All you can eats, The restaurant at the top of the world. The food was sooooo good. We shopped till we couldn't fit any more bags on our arms (whoot to outlet stores and cheep prices) The Mr. and I are hoping to go back as there were so many things to see and do we couldn't fit it all in.
Before we went to Vegas we did Fancon in Vancouver with the one of our geeky couple friends. It was great. We had so much fun! So many great costumes we were in heaven.
Summer was pretty quiet. We didn't go camping or really anywhere. Work consumed most of our time and in a blink our summer was over. The only thing that really did happen was I got transferred to another store and became the manager.
The one thing the Mr. and I did do this summer was go 4x4ing and shooting. We found this great little waterfall out in Mission, it's way off the beaten track but others know about is as there was a camp site set up. We look forward to going there again next year.
Enter in fall, and a new member of our family. Oden the cat.
He's an illegal immigrant as we unknowingly smuggled him into Canada in the Mr's car engine. We are not kidding. This kitten used up one of his 9 lives. In our minds it was meant to be or fate as some would say, so we adopted him. He and Coco now have a love hate relationship. Lucky for us our little girl (coco) was used to cats and has dealt with this new member accordingly, though sometimes she wants to be the only one that gets cuddles and gets a little lippy.
This past November I got transferred again to yet another store where I am the Manager of a newly renovated store. Here's hoping I can bring up the sales and bring back some customers :) I'm gearing up to work everyday before Christmas starting this Tuesday. Oh so much fun, not.
The Mr. surprised me earlier this month too! He's only been able to do that 2 times prior so when he pulled this one off I was totally surprised!!! He said we haven't been on a date, a real date in a very long time (which was true) so he wanted us to get all dressed up and go into town for dinner and then whatever we wanted to do after. I will confess I really didn't want to go into town. I was trying to convince him to just get take out and stay home and watch movies here. He was like "NO! we are going on a date and that's that".
So I got all dressed up and we went into town and ate at a nice gastro-pub and decided to go to the Christmas market after dinner. Or so I thought, As we are walking by the Orpheum the Mr. drags me in and I'm like "Hunny you cant just go in when there is a show on, you need tickets." He was like "No there is a guy here that I want to see and I think you'll want to see him too." I was so confused until I saw a poster of who was playing. I totally had a freak out.
"We're going to see Eddie Izzard?" I yelled at him as he was at the ticket booth. "Yes" he said,
I tossed myself at him and gave him a big hug. The people at the ticket booth were smiling and laughing at us. I love me some Eddie Izzard and had no clue he was in town (work has been taking up most of my time) That night has pretty much been the highlight of my winter so far.
As you can tell I haven't really said much about fertility or treatments. That's because we have done nothing. We had appointments with Genesis and the new RE said, Loose 10% of body weight, and do a Super O with IUI though with your age you might want to just do IVF, oh and have a period every month. Lets just say that did not go well. I need to take meds to get a period and for ever consecutive month I took the meds my period got lighter and lighter. I don't think I was meant to have a period every month. Last month we had a Phone appointment with the RE from Genesis and lets just say our time was not as important as hers (the RE) after waiting 3 hours after the appointment time and we still had not heard from the RE the MR was Livid so we decided to change clinics and go with Olive. My GP has sent in the referral and we have a tentative appointment booked for mid January. Until then I need to loose weight (maybe actually do it this time) and think positive thoughts. We know what we want to do and just need to speak to our new RE about our plan. Hopefully by this time next year we will have a baby in our arms.
I have to say this is the first year that I haven't really wanted to do the Christmas thing. I haven't done cards, haven't even bought gifts yet this year. I guess I've lost that Christmas spirit this year. I'm looking forward to 2014!
2013 you have been hard.
At the start of this year we lost a great man.
Rodger was the best father-in-law a girl could have. Never judgmental, always funny and insightful, he was so supportive. It was the only thing I could do in the end to be the same for him. The Mr & I were there right till the end. Even though I have dealt with death often his passing affected me on a much deeper level. I cannot even try to sum up this wonderful man, the words escape me and I cannot describe the feelings that are with me everyday.
For now all I can say is I Miss You & Love You.
After Rodgers passing MIL (Jane) decided she needed to get away and so with BIL (Nick), the Mr and Myself a trip to Las Vegas was planned for April.
It was a great place to forget. So many things to see and do. The heat, omg the heat was wonderful. Going to the Beach in April (the hotel we stayed at had a beach pool) was awesome. Jane and I went and had a little R&R at the spa while the boys went and played with Guns. We saw a Cirque show, Penn & Tell, the water fountian show and Peep Show. We ate, oh my word did we eat. Rainforest Cafe, All you can eats, The restaurant at the top of the world. The food was sooooo good. We shopped till we couldn't fit any more bags on our arms (whoot to outlet stores and cheep prices) The Mr. and I are hoping to go back as there were so many things to see and do we couldn't fit it all in.
Before we went to Vegas we did Fancon in Vancouver with the one of our geeky couple friends. It was great. We had so much fun! So many great costumes we were in heaven.
Summer was pretty quiet. We didn't go camping or really anywhere. Work consumed most of our time and in a blink our summer was over. The only thing that really did happen was I got transferred to another store and became the manager.
The one thing the Mr. and I did do this summer was go 4x4ing and shooting. We found this great little waterfall out in Mission, it's way off the beaten track but others know about is as there was a camp site set up. We look forward to going there again next year.
Enter in fall, and a new member of our family. Oden the cat.
He's an illegal immigrant as we unknowingly smuggled him into Canada in the Mr's car engine. We are not kidding. This kitten used up one of his 9 lives. In our minds it was meant to be or fate as some would say, so we adopted him. He and Coco now have a love hate relationship. Lucky for us our little girl (coco) was used to cats and has dealt with this new member accordingly, though sometimes she wants to be the only one that gets cuddles and gets a little lippy.
This past November I got transferred again to yet another store where I am the Manager of a newly renovated store. Here's hoping I can bring up the sales and bring back some customers :) I'm gearing up to work everyday before Christmas starting this Tuesday. Oh so much fun, not.
The Mr. surprised me earlier this month too! He's only been able to do that 2 times prior so when he pulled this one off I was totally surprised!!! He said we haven't been on a date, a real date in a very long time (which was true) so he wanted us to get all dressed up and go into town for dinner and then whatever we wanted to do after. I will confess I really didn't want to go into town. I was trying to convince him to just get take out and stay home and watch movies here. He was like "NO! we are going on a date and that's that".
So I got all dressed up and we went into town and ate at a nice gastro-pub and decided to go to the Christmas market after dinner. Or so I thought, As we are walking by the Orpheum the Mr. drags me in and I'm like "Hunny you cant just go in when there is a show on, you need tickets." He was like "No there is a guy here that I want to see and I think you'll want to see him too." I was so confused until I saw a poster of who was playing. I totally had a freak out.
"We're going to see Eddie Izzard?" I yelled at him as he was at the ticket booth. "Yes" he said,
I tossed myself at him and gave him a big hug. The people at the ticket booth were smiling and laughing at us. I love me some Eddie Izzard and had no clue he was in town (work has been taking up most of my time) That night has pretty much been the highlight of my winter so far.
As you can tell I haven't really said much about fertility or treatments. That's because we have done nothing. We had appointments with Genesis and the new RE said, Loose 10% of body weight, and do a Super O with IUI though with your age you might want to just do IVF, oh and have a period every month. Lets just say that did not go well. I need to take meds to get a period and for ever consecutive month I took the meds my period got lighter and lighter. I don't think I was meant to have a period every month. Last month we had a Phone appointment with the RE from Genesis and lets just say our time was not as important as hers (the RE) after waiting 3 hours after the appointment time and we still had not heard from the RE the MR was Livid so we decided to change clinics and go with Olive. My GP has sent in the referral and we have a tentative appointment booked for mid January. Until then I need to loose weight (maybe actually do it this time) and think positive thoughts. We know what we want to do and just need to speak to our new RE about our plan. Hopefully by this time next year we will have a baby in our arms.
I have to say this is the first year that I haven't really wanted to do the Christmas thing. I haven't done cards, haven't even bought gifts yet this year. I guess I've lost that Christmas spirit this year. I'm looking forward to 2014!
July Update
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Not a lot has happened since I last wrote. I know my life is thrilling, NOT!
On the fertility/infertility side, we are still waiting for AF to start after the miscarriage. Yes, it's been almost 100 days. I do have a script for provera to get everything going again, but I just can't bring myself to do it. We (Mr. & I) needed a break. Our love life was not fun anymore, it was all about timing and tests. The passion was pretty much null, So needless to say we are enjoying our break. On the 27th we have an appointment with the ER to discuss whats happened and what our next step(s) will be. I think we are going to wait 3 months, see if I can loose some weight (as I gained 15lbs these last couple of months) and go for another IUI. I also want to find out what drugs the RE was thinking about using if we went for a hyper-stim. I want to see what our medical will cover as that will let us know if we can afford to do a cycle with hyper-stim and IUI.
Other than that things have been pretty quiet around here. Get up, go to work, come home, repeat. I do have a 4 day weekend in August and I'm hoping we can go camping, my first time!, and maybe hit the water park with some friends.
Holy Crap! I almost forgot about the Tough Mudder! Mr. competed and FINISHED it. I am SOOOO proud of him. If you don't know what the Tough Mudder is you need to check out this Video It was a great weekend with Mr's family coming out and watching. Mr's brother even competed in it too (he also finished it) Mr is looking at doing another one. I think he's crazy but I still love him, lol.
I am looking into school, upgrading again. My stupid English isn't good enough for colleges/universities so I must go back if I want to go and get a better job/ career. I'm thinking either Lab Assistant, Unit Clerk, Medical Office Assistant or something along that line.
I'll try to update more.
April/May IUI Update
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So many things have happened since I last wrote.
Truthfully I just haven't had the time to update.
Our first IUI worked, We got Pregnant!
We were so excited. Lots of happy tears that day. I wish I had recorded Mr. reaction to seeing the actual pee test that said Pregnant. It was priceless.
The blood work showed that the numbers weren't as high as they would like them to have been for how far along I was. The nurse said not to get our hopes up, but I mean this is the first time in 32 months that we have had anything other than a negative. We were dancing on cloud 9.
One week later everything came crashing down. I went and did the second Blood test and while I was waiting for the results I started to bleed. I knew what was going on but didn't actually hit me till the phone call from the clinic.
I had miscarried, though the technical term for it was a chemical pregnancy because we weren't far enough along for a ultrasound. Either or we were devastated. We took 2 days to morn what could have been and then looked at it from the positive side.
We CAN get pregnant!
Now we just have to stay pregnant next time.
We will be doing another IUI but not till August we think. I want to lose some weight and see if that helps. Plus when walking up a flight of stairs now winds you, it's time to get that cushy butt back in gear.
That's what's been going on.
April 2 2012 IUI Update
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Here's the update
Day............LH............Estradiol
March 26.......13.4IU/L..... 135pmol/L
March 29.......6.1IU/L..... 300pmol/L
March 31........5.6IU/L..... 528pmol/L
March 26.......13.4IU/L..... 135pmol/L
March 29.......6.1IU/L..... 300pmol/L
March 31........5.6IU/L..... 528pmol/L
April 1..........11.1 IU/L .....834pmol/L
April 2..........49.6 IU/L.......668pmol/L
Got the call today! We are a go for the IUI tomorrow.
Totally scared but looking forward to it.
IUI Update now into April
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Here's the update
Day............LH............Estradiol
March 26.......13.4IU/L..... 135pmol/L
March 29.......6.1IU/L..... 300pmol/L
March 31........5.6IU/L..... 528pmol/L
March 26.......13.4IU/L..... 135pmol/L
March 29.......6.1IU/L..... 300pmol/L
March 31........5.6IU/L..... 528pmol/L
April 1..........11.1 IU/L .....834pmol/L
IUI March/April 2012
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Hello all
This is what we've been up to this past month.
We are doing our very first IUI round. Hopefully it will be our only one!
I decided to do a monitored round, where I get Blood work done to help pin point ovulation. So far my numbers are as follows
Day............LH............Estradiol
March 26.......13.4IU/L..... 135pmol/L
March 29.......6.1IU/L..... 300pmol/L
March 31........5.6IU/L..... 528pmol/L
March 26.......13.4IU/L..... 135pmol/L
March 29.......6.1IU/L..... 300pmol/L
March 31........5.6IU/L..... 528pmol/L
I'm thinking we will be doing the IUI soon. This waiting is killing me.
I will update what happens as it happens.
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