1 year ago...

1 year ago today I started my Lurpon injections for IVF. I never in a million years thought I would become pregnant after this IVF, have our 2nd miscarriage, go on a depression streak for a couple months and then have one miracle baby girl come into my life and change it forever.

If we wouldnt have gotten orders to Guam when we did we would not have rushed into IVF when we did. Then we would not have had our 2nd miscarriage when we did, and Nick would have not created our adoption website when he did, and Kayla's birth mother would have not found us just in the nick of time, 2 1/2 months before Kayla's birth.

It all happened the way it was supposed to.

23 March 2008

Short post, I am exhausted. We got most of our house unpacked. I think this until I see the spare room......ugh.

Happy Easter everyone. Hope you day is filled with fun, laughter and love, good food and lots of candy. We had a good time.

Just wanted to make a shout out to a very kind, generous and thoughtful couple for our very first donation. Because of you we are that much closer to reaching our goal. We are that much closer to becoming Mommy and Daddy. We are that much closer to giving an unwanted baby the life he/she deserves.
Tawnia and Shannon,
Your kindness means the world to us and we appreciate it more than words can say.
Thank you so incredibly much again.

*IVF medical supplies, sold! Auction closed.
Things for sale as of today:
I am offering donor profiles I will no longer need. I have 1 of donor 323, and 2 of donor 554, both NW donors. I had 1 pregnancy with donor 554 which ended in my first miscarriage. I am willing to send the profile at no cost, but asking for a small donation. As small or as large as you wish. If this is not reasonable, please let me know. I will work with you. Message me, or email me at Nicksboo824 @ yahoo.com.

I have 4 individual packs of Preseed, unopened purchased from NW. I have 6 speculums, all size small. They were in a bag of 10, 4 were used so six are left unopened. I can send pictures if requested. I am willing to sell these items for $25, shipping cost of $8.95 flat rate box included for priority mail. The rest of the proceeds, 100%, will go directly into our adoption funds. If this is not a reasonable price please let me know. The first person to respond, or email me gets the supplies. Message me here or email me.

20 March 2008

Things are slowy coming around. Today Nick is picking up his car and tomorrow we get 3 of our 8 crates of household goods. I hope one of them is our bed. The bed we are borrowing from the military SUCKS. I wake up sore every morning.

Still havent started bleeding. Still no spotting. No cramping. My lower back hurts every now and then but I think that has more to do with the stupid bed we are sleeping on. I just want to get it over with. I want to get the bleeding over with. I want to move on.

Not much to report here, but wanted you all to know if you havent already read it that our adoption website will soon be up and running. It's still being worked on but should be ready to go within a week or so. I cant wait to share it with you all. On the website is our history of us and of everything we have done with ttc,and pictures of us. We have included a paypal donation link where 100% of proceeds go towards adoption funds. If you dont want to donate, we would just appreciate words of support and encouragement! We are getting our household goods real soon. 3 crates tomorrow and the rest early next week. When that happens I will have lots of things up for sale! 100% of the proceeds will go towards our adoption fund.

For now, I do have a couple of things up for sale. If you need to email me about anything please do at Nicksboo824 @ yahoo.com

I have 1 sharps container left over from my IVF cycle that I did not use. I will give it to you for free, just pay $5 for shipping cost.$5 will go into our adoption fund. Let me know if you would like a picture or additional information.
I also have brand new, unopened and unused needles, gauze pads and alcohol pads for $10. I can provide pictures and more details if needed.$10 will go into our adoption fund.
If you or anyone you know is going through IVF, I have an unused, still in box, bottle of progesterone in sesame oil. Just pay shipping for that, $5 to adoption fund.

16 Feb 2008

On Valentine's Day Nick came back to our hotel room with the most perfect card and my favorite snack, a bag of BBQ kettle cooked chips. Yum.


All day long I was nervous as can be, and as scared as could be. I kept debating,"Should I test before my blood draw", "do I look at the test or let Nick look?"

Later that night Nick begged me to test. At that point I had decided I didn't want to test until after my blood draw to prepare myself for the worst news possible.

We had 2 pee tests. I had a dollar store test, a First Response and an EPT digital. Nick wanted me to do all 3 at the same time. I took the sticks into the bathroom, peed in a cup and then did the dollar store test. It was a blond moment and I was scared. As soon as I did the dollar store test I dumped the cup of pee in the toilet. I immediately realized what I had done. Nick was mad. So I gave him the test and walked away. I told him not tell me. I jumped on the computer to occupy my mind.

Not even a minute later, from the bathroom Nick yells, "How dark does the line have to be." I immediately knew he saw a line. I told him it doesn't matter, a line is a line. He walked out of the bathroom, test in hand, face all red and said I wish you would have done the other tests. I went over to him to see the test and to my surprise, this is what I saw....


I said, Holy crap, Happy Valentine's Day. After that, I don't remember. I know I drank a lot so I could pee on another stick. And an hour later this is what we saw...


We decided to use the last test for the next morning before my beta blood draw, and this is what we saw...


My beta blood test results were positive, with a beta of 118. My doctor said I am pregnant. Then I called the IVF clinic and the nurse said I am pregnant. She wants me to call her after our ultrasound on March 7th to let her know if it's 1 baby or 2.

And that folks, was our Valentine's Day 2008. We are now praying this baby sticks. Im very happy but very cautious.

Now for some words from Nick to all my pals,

Thank yo everyone for the congratulations. For those of you that have not seen your BFP yet, I know how hard it can be to see others succed and keep a happy face, while you try so hard. It has been so aggravating over the past 5 years to see others have their magic day. That sometimes its hard to truthfully be happy for those that it has happened for.
Thank you for the support you have shown Michelle and myself. It has been a long road. The IUIs, the deployment, the miscarriage, the moving, the IVF, but it has all been so worth it.
Its like 5 years of pain, my surgerys, the money issues, the failure issues have all just been washed away. We get to start a new life in 5 days in a new world, WITH MUCH more to look forward too.
And I thank each and everyone of you for getting Michelle thrugh this. Without your support, advice and encouragement, I dont know if Michelle would have made it.

14 Feb 2008

Just a picture today. Its not great quality. I dont know how to upload pictures from the camera onto the laptop, so here is a picture taken from my cell phone, then uploaded to photobucket. These are the 2 embryos we transfered. Hoping one or both of them were sticky. Happy Valentine's Day everyone.

11 Feb 2008

A little update:

So today we are 7 days past a 3 day transfer. Some of you asked when I am going to pee on a stick. The answer is I'm not. I am staying as far away from those evil sticks as I can. I want nothing to do with them. They scare me. I see them, and I run so Nick has them in a side pocket of my suitcase so I don't have to see them. And they aren't even calling my name. I'm too scared. I dont even want to do my beta test when its time. I want to throw a fit and tell the doctor I will not do it. But that probably wont go over well at all. And so I wait. I don't know when I will test.

A lot has happened since my last post and the schedule isn't going to calm down any for a while. We have 8 days until the plane is up and 7 days until my cats' plane is up. I'm so scared of that. I'm scared of them being so scared and afraid. I don't want to let them go without us. Without the comfort of their maw and paw right next to them in a scary situation. Pooh Bear isn't going to handle it well, Roo I know will soon get over it. I don't like it one bit and I'm dreading the 19th when we have to take them to the airport.

Last Thursday we handed over the keys to our house. We are now homeless and living in a hotel yet again. I hate this part of moving in the military.

On Friday Nick tested for Technical Sargent. This was his second time testing. First time he didnt make it because he didnt have enough time in service. He missed it by only 6 points. This time he is confident he made it. I hope so. He will be a great Tsgt and we could use the nice pay raise. We will find out middle of June the results.

Friday night we had Nick's going away dinner. We had it at Hooters of all places. Usually military going away dinners are held at nicer places, like Olive Garden but ya know Nick...he wanted Hooters. Id rather go to a place like that anyways. We had a good time. I cant remeber the last time I saw him drink so much beer. It was an entertaining night. Nick and the guys he was deployed with drank up a storm. Ever since this night I have been craving hot wings. I had a salad when we went. I always get the cobb salad, but since then I want hot wings.

Saturday morning we drove up to PA. We made one last trip up there to visit his parents and see his family. We had a good time. Sunday morning we all met at an Old Country Buffet. Nick's Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. We had a great time with that. Right from there, we were leaving to come back home (when I say home, I mean hotel) so we had to say our goodbyes to his parents, brother and sister. It was much harder than I thought. Before that moment, I thought we did it before for 3 years we can do it again, but when that moment came, I didn't want to leave. Knowing I wont see any of them for 4 years was hard. Parents get older...my brother in law will be a married man by then, and my nephew who is in utero now will be 4 years old and wont even know who I am. I will be just a face in a picture to him. And to drive back watching your husband sob uncontrollably has got to be one of the worst feelings. There was no way I could comfort him but say, "We did it before, we can do it again."

Today, Nick went to work to get some paperwork done for the move. Then he has to clean his car spotless so we can ship it. Shipping a car overseas is an all day long process. There cant be 1 speck of dirt when we take his car in or they will refuse to take it. They go over every square inch of the car, inside and out and document every square inch inside and out on paper. Then we will fill out paperwork. Its takes HOURS and I hate it. But it must be done. After that since we will be in the area of Buffalo Bill's Nick is going to take me there to get my hot wing craving in. I have to have them, soon.

Thats about it for now so until next time!

Shari- You are welcome for the support! You are great support to me as well.

7 Feb 08

I'm so sorry everyone. I know you are wondering what the heck is going on. We have been so busy with this move I haven't had time for the computer. I hate the moving process. This one has been the most hectic so far. But I love living in new places. We leave 2 weeks from today. Anyways, as far as IVF, we are finally done. We transfered 2 grade 2 embryos. We had 3 grade 2's but the doc wouldn't transfer 3 for us. He said its to risky and unethical. Hes right. So we transfered 2. It was so neat. We got to see the embryos, see them being transfered and every got a picture of them which I will post someday when I have time. Now its the wait wait wait. I hope it turns out good. Sorry this is so short. I am pooped.

23 Jan 2008

So, We got to D.C. last night. We are staying at Bolling AFB, and our room smells like dirty diapers and vomit. It's an old building though, but we are trying to get a different room. Other than that, thing are great now. We are staying in temporary lodging, so we have a full kitchen which is great. We dont have internet in our room. But the main lobby has wireless internet so I can try to update here as much as I can. I might not type much because I hate the key board on this thing.

I miss my cats already. I think I miss them already because I know I wont seem them for 10 days. Last night right before bed I just had to have a good cry and I didnt know why. Maybe the hormones my body is pumped up on? Maybe all the changes in life right now? I dont know.

Im still on my stims of course, and as of yesterday I started feeling my ovaries. So I am confident that the meds are working. Im not crampy, but I can definatly feel them. My next scan is on Friday. Today was just blood draw.

We, well Nick, has spent over an hour this morning trying to my PIO injections. The IVF clinic doesnt have it so they gave us a prescription and pretty much said go find it. Nick called every CVS in the D.C. area including a Target and a few Rite Aids. Noone carries it. I start these injections on the night of my egg retrieval. We finally got a hold it from a mail order pharmacy.
So everything is ok.

Since we have the rest of the day to ourselves I think we are either a) going to take a stroll in downtown D.C. since today its going to be 44 degrees. We could save the indoor activities for a cold day. Or b) Go to the Smithsonian Museum and spend the cold days outside.

Tomorrow I have an 8:30 appointment for pre-operative clearance then the rest of the day is dedicated to the Washington D.C. Auto Show. Nick has to have something to do as well I guess.

I HATE this laptop, I cant stand to type anymore. Sorry this blog was bland and boring and the point. I'll shall return.

THank you everyone for thinking of me and taking the time to send me such wonderful comments!

21 Jan 2008

Michell, a blogger pal of mine, had her egg retrieval yesterday. She got 7 potential babies!!
So Michell, this is for you....


Tonight Nick is packing up our computer. Tomorrow is my last day of work, Im working 9-3 and then we are headed for Washington D.C. We are staying a military hotel, so we should have internet in the room, hopefully. I will try to get back on here as soon as I can to update.


The time is getting closer! This time next week, we will be just DAYS away from egg retrieval!

2nd post for 20 Jan 2008

So, it's 8 pm and my 3rd injection of the day is done. All 3 of these injections will continue until egg retrieval day. Then those 3 stop and I start a new daily injection called Progesterone in Oil, AKA-PIO. But for now..let's talk about my 3rd daily injection called Menopur.
It SUCKS! I feel so bloated and feel much discomfort in my whole entire abdominal region. Fellow IVF'ers...did you feel this way? Ugh. I feel like I want to puke. But ya know how it is...anything for our bean(s) to grow...Anyhow, we did a video for this one too. You have to mix a liquid and a powder and inject it after the powder disolves. For this one, I didnt numb the area with ice first. We went straight for it. That was a mistake. This stuff burns a whole heck of a lot more than the Follistim. Ouch!
Here's the video:

20 Jan 2008

30 days until we are on the plane and 14 days until embryo transfer!!!!

So, this morning was my FIRST Follistim injection. Easy...It was with a small needle and I was afraid it was going to burn a lot from what some other girls told me. But it only stung for about 10 seconds then done. I did numb the area with ice before the injection so that might have helped, but overall..it was as easy as cake! Later tonight starts the Menopur..which is a little more complicated because of the mixing powders and liquids but, we can handle it for the outcome!
Here is a picture and a video for your enjoyment. Dont mind my chubby tummy picture. It's just luck for the eggies to grow!
I think you click on the video to play it.

IVF Medication Pictures

Here are the pictures I took of all my medications. Then Im going to go catch up on everyone else's blogs then I have to work on this house. By THIS weekend, or Monday since it's a holiday, we have to have this house ready to go as if the packers were walking in the door. I work 9-7 on Tuesday and at 2 am on Wednesday we are headed to D.C. and that is my last night in my wonderful house. :(

My bear (his name is pooh bear, we call him bear) with all my meds, "Ma, what's all this??"


"Ahh, this is to make a brother you say?!"(he thinks everyone is a boy)


The Menopur, I have 4 boxes of these.


The follistim, I have 40 boxes of this.


Needles


Everything, except trigger


HCG trigger

16 Jan 2008-IVF calendar and med pics

My IVF Calendar- I will be clear what the meds are for those who dont know ( like my mother in law hehe )

16 Jan (today)-Baseline exam= blood work and sonogram. Decrease lupron to 5 units. (lupron stops me from ovulating on my own)I continue Lupron once a day until told to stop.
20 Jan- Start FSH ( follice stimulating hormone-makes my follicles grow, follicles are what grow the eggs) injection once a day in the morning and Menopur at night, 12 hours apart.
23 Jan-Blood work. (this will start our 2 week stay in D.C. for the IVF cycle)
25 Jan-Blood work, sonogram, history and physical, Pre-operative evaluation.
26 Jan- The rest of the cycle is tentative, may change a day or 2 ahead or behind.
27 Jan-Blood work, sonogram.
28 Jan-Blood work and sonogram. Stop all injections.
29 Jan-Blood work and sonogram. Tentative HCG trigger shot at night. (This makes my ovaries ovulate the eggs)
30 Jan-Blood work, nothing to eat or drink after midnight.
31 Jan-Tentative egg retrieval day!
1 Feb-IVF clinic will call me about fertilization report. (so we know how are eggies are progressing)
3 Feb-Tentative embryo transfer day.
4 Feb- Start progesterone injections. (Projesterone is a natural hormone that is produced normally very early in pregnancy. But Because of the ovarian stimulation process, it may remove any of the cells that produce this hormone, so it has to be supplemented until the placenta takes over. These injections continue until 6 weeks of pregnancy.

Pictures to be posted soon...

16 Jan 2008- HAPPY BIRFDAY TO ME!

Well folks, I guess you are all waiting for my update. Let me just tell you I got nothing BUT good news today.

We were on the road at 4 pm yesterday headed to Manassas VA. We hit NO traffic which was miracle number one. At that time, headed towards D.C. with NO traffic is amazing. On the way there I just happened to look at the car coming along side us in the left lane. A white pickup truck. Dont know what triggered me to look at the license plate. M487. Now, you ask why this is of signifigance? Our donor number is M847. Yes, 2 numbers were backwards but what the heck are the chances of seeing the letter M, grouped with the 3 numbers of our new donor on THIS day? Very very slim. Slim to NONE I'd day. It made me happy. From that moment on, I knew this IVF was going to work. I know it will. That was miracle number 2 and we were only half way there. The doctor then gives us our calendar of dates. (I will post it soon)

We get to the hospital the next morning (this morning) for our baseline appointment, as nervous and excited as can be. I get the wonderful dildo cam (vaginal ultrasound) while on AF's visit. Not pretty. We look at the ultrasound monitor and see a lovely empty uterus! No cysts, fibroids or what not! YEAH! Then she looks at my left ovary. 8 lovely small follicles! Yes folks, EIGHT! Then we look at my right ovary and find 6 follies. SIX more! That is a total of 13 potenial eggies that will become our twins! And this total of 13 follies is BEFORE I've even started my stimmulating injections! So, maybe we can build up even more. Wow. I am thrilled. Miracle number 4.

After this we take our 2 vials to have them stored and we get breakfast while waiting for the pharmacy to open. I get my meds and holy bejesus! Talk about meds...wow. You will see in the pictures I post soon.

Then we have our injection class which felt a tad bit overwhelming at first but I think we can manage it well.

Geez, now I all of a sudden dont know what to type...my brain went to 'pause' mode. Sorry. I will upload the pictures then post my calendar for you all to see.

By the way...THANK YOU everyone for your well wishes. Thanks Tammy for sending me card. It made me smile. I only got 2 cards this year, one from you and one from sister who I havent seen in 2 years. Thank you.

15 Jan 2008

Ding Dong the wtich is here. She arrived at 4 am. This is the last time I expect to see her for a LONG time. Tomrrow is my baseline! This is when it all begins....

14 Jan 2008

So, now Im a little worried, even though a couple girls reassured me it's ok. Today is day 10 of my Lupron injections. I was told by the IVF nurse that on day 14 of Lupron is when my AF should show up. I was also told that my baseline appointment would be around cycle day 3. My baseline appointment is THIS Wednesday. And that is only 2 days away. It just doesnt add up to me. But Im sure the nurse knows what shes doing. Im going to ask her today. I called and left a message to confirm my appointment time and where I should go for it. Hopefully she calls back soon.

I dont think I will get to post an update on here until Thursday. I work all day tomorrow, 9-3 and as soon as Nick and I get home we are off to Washington D.C. for the night. My appointment is at 0630 so we are going the night before since its a 3 hour drive. I hope everything goes ok. As far as I know, what happenes at the baseline appointment is they measure my uterine lining and my follies. I dont know how they are going to measure my follies when I dont have any right as far as I know. I havent started my stimulating meds yet. If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know. They will also be doing a lot of blood work on me too while Im there and I get a complete schedule of what is going to happen on which days. Im excited for that.

Im feeling more confident about this cycle then I was at the beginging, however I am still so scared of the results. What if this doesnt work? But, what if it does? It's really scarey.

Only 2 more sleeps until my birthday, until my baseline appointment, until Meg gets to see her twins at 10 weeks gestation (10w already!?) and until Tracey gets to see her little one, or is it ones? I cant wait.

Our house is coming along, as far as packing stuff up and separating things. By THIS weekend, we have to have everything all ready as if the packers are about to walk through the door. YIKES. We still have a lot to do but atleast we have started.

9 Jan 2008 **UPDATED**

So, remember the problems we had with trying to get TDY Orders for Nick for us to go up to Walter Reed for our IVF cycle? And remember that we got denied the Orders because it's an elective surgery? And remember then Nick got Permissive TDY Orders which means the trip is not paid for but Nick wont have to use his leave days for the stay?

Well, this morning Nick went to go pick up the paper work for Permissive TDY because in order for us to reserve the hotel in D.C. on a military base for a discounted rate we had to have the paper work.

Upon picking up that paper work, Nick was told that they dont know who told us that the TDY Orders were denied because they were'nt. They asked him who I talked to and of course this was a month ago so I cannot remember. They told him we needed my doctor to put the referral back into the computer so they can get us the orders.

So, I called my doctor to get the refferal put back into the computer and she said that the refferal is still in the computer and she needed to know who and why said it wasnt in the computer.

So TDY orders are a mess right now. Thanks military. Good news is that someone told Nick that the TDY Orders were NOT denied.

So maybe, he can get the TDY Orders and our 2 week stay at Walter Reed can be paid for by the military. Thanks military. The have their perks and downfalls at the same time. I hope Nick gets the orders. Its a financial break on us that we need. It's not my fault that the closest military facility IVF clinic is 3 hours away. They should pay for it.

So we are waiting on news about that. Hopefully we will know something today. I hate the waiting and not knowing whats going to happen. Oh boy..the two week wait after IVF is going to be interesting.

My Lupron injections are going great. Yesterday's dose was the first time I bled a little and this morning I noticed that the injection site is bruised. I dont know what I did wrong, or if it's normal and I didnt do anything wrong. Today Im going to try to wait for Nick to get home to do the shot as long as he gets home pretty close to 4. Does anyone know if I always have to have the shot at 4:00 on the dot every single day. I would like to wait for him to get home to do it. Plus it makes him feel needed. As if it he's helping in some way in this rough process.

**UPDATE**
It was false hope. Who ever spoke to Nick this morning was not aware that the orders were denied. That is why she told us they never were denied. But they were. So because someone lacked communication, we were given false hope today. BLAH! But Nick is still able to get permissive TDY so he wont have to use his leave.

4 Jan 2008

So the IVF nurse told me call her at 8 am today for instructions on how to give myself the Lupron injections. I been calling her for an hour now with no answer. I left a message. She always returns messages the same day, but it just bothers me that I can never get a hold of her or anyone else when I need to. I ALWAYS have to leave a message. I know they are working with a lot of cranky women at the same time, but geesh. Give me a break when I need one. I want to get this over with. I dont want to be sitting at home all day waiting for "the call." I had stuff I wanted to do today. Im biting my nails over here....I have to GIVE MYSELF AN INJECTION! Yikes.



I will update this after I hear from her.

So the injection went just fine. MUCH eaiser than I thought and I didnt even have to wait all day for her to call me back. She called me about an hour after I posted this morning. It was easier than I ever imagined it would be. Here is how it works:
1.Use alcohol swab to clean off top of Lupron bottle.
2.Remove wrapper from syringe and pull plunger back until the tip is at the 20 mark line on the syringe. (you can see the 20 mark line in the picture)
3.Take orange cover off the needle.
4.Place bottle of Lupron on a flat surface and push the needle through the rubber center of bottle. Push the plunger all the way in to inject air into the bottle.
5.Keep needle in the bottle. Lift the bottle and turn it straight upside down. Make sure needle tip is in liquid.
6.With the needle in the liquid, slowly pull back plunger until syringe fills to the 20 mark line with liquid. If any bubbles appear remove them by pushing plunger up slowly.
7.Clean injection site with alcohol swab. Then dry with tissue. Pinch skin. Slide needle quickly all the way through skin at 90 degree angle. (this proved to be a million times easier than I expected, and I HATE needles)
8.Push the plunger to inject medication. Withdraw needle at 90 degree angle. Wipe with tissue.
9.Dispose needle properly.
I guess they forgot to give me a used needle container when I picked up my Lupron so Im using an empty cranberry juice container.

Over all, as easy as cake. The pain on a scale of 1-10 was a 0. I didnt even feel it.

3 Jan 2008

Shout out to Tracey~YEAH TRACEY! I dont blame you for being a cheater! I would have done the same thing! Tracey had her egg retrieval on Nick's birthday. She is now pregnant and had her first ultrasound and saw 1 healthy baby, and possibly 2 babies. Either way, I am so thrilled for her. She has been waiting for her little love bug for a very long long time.

GOD please, please let me be as blessed and lucky as her after my IVF procedure.

As for me,
*Im starting to feel better I think. The only thing that makes me feel better is my head isnt as stuffed as it has been. I think Im on the road to recovery.

*Tomorrow I start my Lupron injections. A little nervous...

*Only 6 more days of BCP's.

*In just 12 days it's my birthday. I will be 24 and on my 24th birthday I will be at the IVF clinic getting all my medications, doing tons of blood work and getting scanned and having an injection class. Then I will be well on my way to making babies.

*Over the Christmas/New Year's break Nick and I only spent 1 day making our piles. We cleaned out the spare room of everything so we can pile all our stuff in there that is NOT getting packed. So far we have a pile for our 2 week IVF stay, a pile for our living out of suitcases for 2 months which so far only includes our summer clothing and shoes. We have a pile for unaccompanied baggage which only includes some summer clothing and shoes so far. We have a pile to take to Nick's parents house of stuff we wont need in Guam and maybe they can use. We have 4 bags of stuff to donate pile in the garage too.

Hey, atleast we got that far.

*We have only 47 more days here in the United States before those airplane wheels are up.

*I only have 18 more nights in our house here. I will be spending a lot of night in the hotel in D.C. for IVF which leaves me with not much time here in my comfy house and my wonderful bed.

Yikes, it's getting close.

I hope the cats will be ok. I worry about my babies. They are going to have a hard time. I hope they arent tramatized too much.

28 Dec 2007

Sorry it's been a while since I updated. This is actually the longest Ive ever gone without blogging. Im going through withdrawl. lol. Nick and I were real busy with Christmas going on. We went up to his parents and had a wonderful time. We were opening presents for over an hour continuosly. It was so much fun. I ended up getting a lot of scrapbook things from his family and him and I am so happy about that. And got some new summer clothing, a blender and lots of small things. We all made out pretty good this year.

We were able to pick up my Lupron injections yesterday on the way home from PA. I cant wait to start taking it. I actually had a dream last night that I was giving myself the injection. Funny.

Nothing really going on here to report. We are taking our tree down today and are going to start getting the house ready to be packed up. I wont be home after the 15th and this week is our only time off together before that happens so we have to do it this week/weekend.

Im sorry this post is so boring. I assure you, the boredom will end soon and life will be busy and full of things to tell you about.

I want to make a shout out to Meg and Kris who just had their first ultrasound after their IVF, and who saw their babIES for the first time. A wonderful sight of Baby A AND Baby B! Im so over the moon thrilled for them and I hope to be just as blessed soon! Congrats mommies! I cant wait for Tracey's ultrasound next!

Oh by the way...Here is a picture of all my lupron. When I start taking them I will start making video diaries. But for now here is a picture. I have 2 boxes, each box good for 14 days. In this picture you are only seeing contents of 1 box. For those of you who arent familair with IVF, in the picture you can see the boxes it all comes in, and the red packs are the alcohol swabs to clean the injection site. The small bottle in between the boxes is the actual lupron. This small bottle will last for 14 injections. Then you see the syringes and needles and an instruction manual. Fun stuff. It all starts on January 4th. My BC pills Im still on, and they last until Jan. 9th. I went to IVFMEDS.COM to see how much this Lupron costs, and I think this picture is about $500 in meds. Good Lord....please give me twins. 2 for the price of one!

Now, what is Lupron for exactly? Well, it is used for many things in the medical field but in IVF it is used to stop the ovaries from ovulating and no longer produce estrogen in women. This will help build up my eggs for when I start the stimulating medications to make lots and lots of eggs.