July Update

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

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

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

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

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

April 1..........11.1 IU/L .....834pmol/L

IUI March/April 2012

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

I'm thinking we will be doing the IUI soon. This waiting is killing me.

I will update what happens as it happens.

Christmas Quilts

I know it's really late but here are some of the Quilts

Mr. & I made for Christmas Prezzies.

This one is for Grandma

Of Course Grandpa had to have a funny one

Gary's was just a small Lap Quilt. Mr did this one all by himself!

Here's Nicks. It's a Disappearing 9 patch

This one is for Janis. It's also a Disappearing 9 patch

We also did one for Mother in Law, Father in Law, Sister in Law but we didn't get a chance to take a photo of them.

365 in Photos Version 2012

Last year a lot of people I knew did the 365 Photo challenge. Where you take a picture of something everyday for a full year.

I think I'm going to try doing that this year :D

Here is Jan 1 2012

Right after midnight and dinner on the first day of the year :D

Jan 1 2012

Will beat 104,444 times, pump 1,532 gallons of blood, and push that blood nearly 15,289 miles throughout my body!

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OMG did I let the Holiday season get to me! I gain, yes that's right gained not 5, not 10 but 15 pounds! I have to say it was a very yummy holiday season but now I have to work on getting ride of those extra 15 pounds plus another 20. EEEEPPP!!! Scary stuff. Lucky for me I have MR and he's going to help me with the food part of it cause as we can see, when I toss self control out the window it flys far far away.

For fertility AF decided to squash my dreams of a New Year announcement to the MR and came and visited me on Dec 31. What a way to end the year. Looks like we will be doing another month of Fermara. If this month is not "the" month then in Feb we will be doing a monitored cycle for $100.00. IF that doesn't work then on to IUI with Fermara and possibly a trigger shot. That's where the big bucks start getting spent. Is it too much to ask? I just want to have a child, see my DH hold his son or daughter and know that we did this together. *Deep Breath in* I try and not let the guilt get to me but after a while it just sits there like a rock on the shoulder. Anyways enough with the depressing stuff, I am trying very hard to only be positive about getting pregnant . Hoping some good ju ju will help.