I just had my first ultrasound to see if I was ready to start taking some of the heavy duty medicine to get my utereus all ready for the FET. The doctor said everything looks good and I can start the medicine. I have my next appointment on November 11th. The second ultrasound will be to see if the lining is thick enough for the embryos to attach to. If this goes well, the will be doing the embryo transfer on November 17th. Then we cross our fingers, our toes, our eyes, and anything else to see if I am pregnant. They will do that test on Dec. 1st. If we get a positive there, I will officially be 4 weeks pregnant. At 7 weeks (right before Christmas) they will do another ultrasound to find the heartbeat(s).
CRAZY!!!!
If all goes as planned - which we know in Jeff & my case never happens, but ... I am going to play the optimist - the official due date will be August 5, 2010. Now if only I could deliver on August 2nd...then I will never forget Gary's birthday again!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Just for Susan!
This post is just for Susan. She is tired of my title "I broke a stirrup" showing up on her blog page, so she texted me asking/begging for another post so she didnt have to look at it.
:) Love you Susan! This is just for you!
:) Love you Susan! This is just for you!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
I broke a stirrup!
This is going to be an interesting change....I am not going to take you back in time to give you back story for this post!
So today I had the hysterescopy - camera in utereus. I, of course, was very nervous. The doctor had perscribed me 5 mg of Valium for my stress and anxiety. Valium is also suppose to have a "forgetting" effect to it. I was to take it an hour before the procedure. Jeff was a little leary, so he had me take it about 20 min before hand - you know how doctors are at keeping their schedule! So by the time I was to do it, it had been about 40 min after the medicine.
Ok - so Valium doesnt work on me! I felt everything and then some! The doctor was really nice about it all. I think everyone was hyper aware of my stress. He tries to tell a joke - he says I remind him of a woman who goes into a pyschologist office saying, "doc, one minute I think I am a wigwam, and the next a teepee. what's wrong with me?" the doctor replys, " oh that's easy, your 2 tents"....yeah I didnt laugh either! He kept apologizing for the pain and saying I'm almost there. Give me a minute.... So of course I, in human nature, keep pushing back, arching, etc. Whew...it is done - I am still cramping crying the nurse is patting my arm telling me I did good. He now wants to do a quick ultrasound. He needs to change something so could I raise my bottom up again so he could do who knows what...and BOOM! I put a little more pressure on the stirrup and it falls off! How embarrassing!!!! He is apologizing to me - dumb broken bed - I am profusely apologizing to him...
So on to the "calendar". I get to wait for my next period...and then give him a call. Love specifics! :)
We get out to the car, and boom the drugs hit! I crawled into bed and apparently have been asleep for the past 5 hours. Jeff woke me up about dinner, but I apparently just rolled over. Angie called to ask if they could come up this weekend! Yeah! We love visitors and this will be their first trip! Oh I need to tell them to bring their swimsuits if they want to "hot tub". I think if she hadnt called, I would still be asleep.
Jeff is attributing everything to high levels of adreneline. The minute I was in a relaxed situation - the car and home - I fell asleep. Oh and the "forgetting effect" Yeah - I didnt experience it as you can tell by my blog, I remember everything!
Hopefully everything will be successful!
So today I had the hysterescopy - camera in utereus. I, of course, was very nervous. The doctor had perscribed me 5 mg of Valium for my stress and anxiety. Valium is also suppose to have a "forgetting" effect to it. I was to take it an hour before the procedure. Jeff was a little leary, so he had me take it about 20 min before hand - you know how doctors are at keeping their schedule! So by the time I was to do it, it had been about 40 min after the medicine.
Ok - so Valium doesnt work on me! I felt everything and then some! The doctor was really nice about it all. I think everyone was hyper aware of my stress. He tries to tell a joke - he says I remind him of a woman who goes into a pyschologist office saying, "doc, one minute I think I am a wigwam, and the next a teepee. what's wrong with me?" the doctor replys, " oh that's easy, your 2 tents"....yeah I didnt laugh either! He kept apologizing for the pain and saying I'm almost there. Give me a minute.... So of course I, in human nature, keep pushing back, arching, etc. Whew...it is done - I am still cramping crying the nurse is patting my arm telling me I did good. He now wants to do a quick ultrasound. He needs to change something so could I raise my bottom up again so he could do who knows what...and BOOM! I put a little more pressure on the stirrup and it falls off! How embarrassing!!!! He is apologizing to me - dumb broken bed - I am profusely apologizing to him...
So on to the "calendar". I get to wait for my next period...and then give him a call. Love specifics! :)
We get out to the car, and boom the drugs hit! I crawled into bed and apparently have been asleep for the past 5 hours. Jeff woke me up about dinner, but I apparently just rolled over. Angie called to ask if they could come up this weekend! Yeah! We love visitors and this will be their first trip! Oh I need to tell them to bring their swimsuits if they want to "hot tub". I think if she hadnt called, I would still be asleep.
Jeff is attributing everything to high levels of adreneline. The minute I was in a relaxed situation - the car and home - I fell asleep. Oh and the "forgetting effect" Yeah - I didnt experience it as you can tell by my blog, I remember everything!
Hopefully everything will be successful!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
It is times like these that I am glad Jeff is a Doctor!
I got a phone call last Friday from my fertility doctor's office. They want to do a hysteroscopy (blow up my utereus with air and stick a camera in... & take a tissue sample) in office - no anaesthesia! - on Tuesday, October 13th at 11:30 am and then the following Thursday at 10:30 am have a "class" on all the drugs and the calendar. I really want Jeff to be there, but the times they put things are right in the middle of his clinic. I asked the nurse - Melinda - if we could change the times. She said "No". I told her that my husband was an OB and the times wouldnt work for him and please, is there any other time that we could do any of this? Her response, "No." I told her that his half day was Thursdays and he would be available anytime after noon. She told me that they read lab reports on Thursday afternoons and that it was impossible to change the time.
One of the feelings I experience with the whole infertility thing is a "loss of control". Not that I am sure a lot of people feel like they have "control" over their fertility, but I have to totally give away any small amount of control to the doctors. The only "control" I have really is picking the doctor and setting the appointment. Not being able to have Jeff with me for these "scary" things was more that I could take! I was in Utah when I got the call at Aaron & Rebecca's house. (luckily not Susan's cuz I have NO cell coverage there!) When I tried to use the little control I had, it was immediately taken away from me. I went into a big time panic attack/anxiety attack. I called Jeff really upset about the whole situation and asked if he could call and talk to them - if nothing was going to change, we haven't given them any money and moving to another doctor would only set us back for the amount of time to set up the appointment. I was trying to get my "control" back!
So Jeff called on Monday morning and left a message for Melinda - he didn't say "Dr. Nelson" he just said "Jeff Nelson, husband of Jill Nelson" and gave his office number as the call back number. WOW! It is amazing how she responded to that! Miraculously they were able to reschedule! Now, we have both appointments scheduled for Thursday, October 15th at 2:30 pm - Oh & yes, I will have in-office anaesthesia!
Still not looking forward to the hysteroscopy - I have had 2 done previously - in an OR - not an office, but at least now I won't be awake for it - or so loopy I could really give a care! :)
Once we have that calendar in hand, it will make our lives a little easier. It is really hard for us to plan anything down the road, whether it is for next weekend or next month, we just have no idea what state I will be in. Well we know that the "state" will be Texas ... ( hahaha Dad!) and the city will be Rowlett for that matter! :) Once we have the embryos transferred, Jeff & I are planning on me "resting" quite a bit. I am going to be stockpiling books and DVDs for the fun 2 weeks following the transfer. Even before the transfer, I will be limited on travel - the medicines they put me on make me ..... well, let's just say "moody" - we want to keep the rating on this blog at a "G"!
We will keep you updated once we have our appointment next Thursday.
One of the feelings I experience with the whole infertility thing is a "loss of control". Not that I am sure a lot of people feel like they have "control" over their fertility, but I have to totally give away any small amount of control to the doctors. The only "control" I have really is picking the doctor and setting the appointment. Not being able to have Jeff with me for these "scary" things was more that I could take! I was in Utah when I got the call at Aaron & Rebecca's house. (luckily not Susan's cuz I have NO cell coverage there!) When I tried to use the little control I had, it was immediately taken away from me. I went into a big time panic attack/anxiety attack. I called Jeff really upset about the whole situation and asked if he could call and talk to them - if nothing was going to change, we haven't given them any money and moving to another doctor would only set us back for the amount of time to set up the appointment. I was trying to get my "control" back!
So Jeff called on Monday morning and left a message for Melinda - he didn't say "Dr. Nelson" he just said "Jeff Nelson, husband of Jill Nelson" and gave his office number as the call back number. WOW! It is amazing how she responded to that! Miraculously they were able to reschedule! Now, we have both appointments scheduled for Thursday, October 15th at 2:30 pm - Oh & yes, I will have in-office anaesthesia!
Still not looking forward to the hysteroscopy - I have had 2 done previously - in an OR - not an office, but at least now I won't be awake for it - or so loopy I could really give a care! :)
Once we have that calendar in hand, it will make our lives a little easier. It is really hard for us to plan anything down the road, whether it is for next weekend or next month, we just have no idea what state I will be in. Well we know that the "state" will be Texas ... ( hahaha Dad!) and the city will be Rowlett for that matter! :) Once we have the embryos transferred, Jeff & I are planning on me "resting" quite a bit. I am going to be stockpiling books and DVDs for the fun 2 weeks following the transfer. Even before the transfer, I will be limited on travel - the medicines they put me on make me ..... well, let's just say "moody" - we want to keep the rating on this blog at a "G"!
We will keep you updated once we have our appointment next Thursday.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Funny thing happened on my way back to Texas....
It seems like everytime I make a post, it is this long drawn out thing that I have to go back a few days or a week to get the whole story. Well, this post is no different! :)
I was at Angie's house from September 21st until October 1st. During that time, Angie and I got a lot accomplished (with the help of Gideon and Scott & a few of her ward friends - who happen to both know Greg & Allison Bair - one cuz she use to live in my current ward & the other cuz Greg & her hubby went to law school together - how weird is that?). Jeff has been a trouper, but started missing me & asked me when I think everything would be wrapped up so I could come home - Thursday afternoon. I decided that I would leave Thursday noonish and drive back down to Circleville - run over to St. George to go shopping for Bunko gifts - then head home and be home by Sunday night.....
Angie & I got up early on Thursday and hit the ground running! She had gotten a new vacuum cleaner, a Dyson, and boy did that speed things up! It did the blinds, the baseboards, and the carpet! We were so productive that I just knew at noon that we only had 30 min or so left....so 2 hours later, I left. It was a nice visit. I got to know Andrew and JT. JT was introduced to "Scooby Doo" and I don't think Angie & Scott's life will be the same! hahaha! I even got JT asking for a "Coke" instead of some "Pop"! I tried to school him in the finer Texas things! :) Now I just need to teach him "Gig 'em" and that t.u. stinks! Oh by the way..."dumb" is a bad word in their household, so if you are trying to open a smoke detector (that apparently has no battery and can't be opened) - don't say that it is "dumb" - JT picked up on that word right away! Scott trying to distract him asked what they should call the fruit smoothie he made..."Yummy Tummy?" JT just looked at him and with a straight face said, "No, I think we should call it 'Dumb'." Oops!
On my way out of town, I called Aaron & Rebecca to tell the goodbye and that I was glad that I could go to Daniel's 4th Birthday dinner the night before. Aaron told me that Rebecca was on her way to IKEA to look at some bedding for the room. I have never been to IKEA and heard it was cool. I thought, "Oh, what is one more hour..." Ummmm....have you ever been to IKEA? It is huge! And we know how decisive Rebecca is from my previous posts...So we ended up shutting IKEA down! I wouldn't let her settle on just anything. Nothing seemed to fit her room or the colors she wanted. I spent the night at their house and we went internet window shopping. I felt that I now had a stake in Rebecca and Aaron's room and I was going to help her find her bedding and she wasn't going to settle for anything! So after 5 hours of mall shopping for this "perfect" bed set, with all 4 kids - thank you UEA, Rebecca settled for a "champagne" bed set. She calls it "mmm...brown", but it is "champagne". Now for the paint color and some Euro pillows. Funny thing happened on the way to get all of that....we were at Kohl's for the Euro pillows and there it was....the perfect bed set, in Full size. Thanks to the iphone we were able to look up Kohl's online and see that they had the King set online. We bought a single decorative pillow and we were off to Home Depot to color match. Saturday morning painted the walls - silver (or light gray, depending on how creative you want to be with the name) while listening to conference on the radio...how cool is that? You can listen to conference on the radio in UT?!?!?! After the painting, Aaron wanted to drive up a canyon on the way to Logan to look at the cool foliage. Everyone but Rebecca, Matthew, and I fell asleep so they missed the cool color changes in the leaves that had already fallen off the trees, but we got to listen to conference again on the radio and take a drive! Fascinating! I left Sunday morning after my work there had been done. I enjoyed the quick visit again. I got to watch Sarah take one of her first "strolls". (more than one step) She definately doesn't want a sippy cup if she sees any Sonic drinks anywhere around. She signs "more" and then gets upset if you don't give her a sip - I mean she did sign "more" so she should automatically get her reward! :) Matthew and I had fun playing with my car and driving to Sonic to get drinks. I think I had about 2 a day! (That is another good thing about Angie moving out of North Salt Lake - the closest Sonic was in Layton! How can anyone live in those conditions?) Matthew loved talking on the phone to me over my bluetooth and having me put it in reverse so he could be on camera. Our last Sonic run, I got Sarah her own Route 44 Sprite, that way whoever could actually drink their own drink in peace, although I think she would just look at hers and then yours and would beg some drink anyway, I mean, what if you were holding out?
So Sunday I was in Circleville. Monday morning, Susan & I woke up, got the kids to school and then headed out to St. George for a "Girls Day". We went to Krumpits, where I unfortunately bought a lot of stuff! Then had to wait cuz my credit card got flagged by Citibank as "unusual" activity - how embarrassing! We did lunch, went here, went there...pretty soon it was 9 pm! Driving to Circleville, at night, in the fall - not recommended - there are deer everywhere. Susan was driving, Jeff's new car, so slow with the high beams on - we saw some many deer in the ditches - it was really freakin' me out! Luckily we got home safe! Tuesday, I was able to go help out at the school's "reading store". The PTA puts this together every month. The students get reading medallions for the amount of time they read each month. At the end of the month, the PTA opens the store and the kids get to shop. They have 6 tables set up ranging from 10 pts to 120 pts. The prizes on each table are according to price. So the table with 10 pts might have a lot of cheap candy. Prizes on the 40 pt table (that is the one I was at) had prizes like lipgloss, pom poms, stop watch, big monster truck. The 80 pt and the 120 pt table had the big prizes, lava lamps, necklaces, footballs, etc. They started this program last year and have seen a jump in the amount of reading the students do. They get a max of 40 pts each month, so they got to drool over the 80 & 120 tables this month - if they save their pts they can shop there next month or the month after. The little kids wanted to spend all their pts. Some of the older ones saved them so they could get the bigger prizes. Each one of my nieces came up and gave me a big hug. It was fun to see them in school. Kari bought lipgloss (I actually told her it was nail polish...oops!), Kate got some eyeshadow, and Emily got a cute pair of sunglasses. Later that night while Susan went to YW and Gary was at a cattle auction, the girls and I had a pajama party girl's night - I did the girls' nails and makeup and then Emily did my nails while the Kate & Kari did my makeup. Poor Jason, he just sat watched a movie. Although I think he was relieved that I wasn't going to do his nails and makeup! :) It was a lot of fun! Luckily Susan is "easy" - all I had to do for her was make a connection from her laptop to TV so they could enjoy instant Netflix. No cleaning, no moving furniture, no painting.... although I think she has some plans brewing in that head of hers.... When it is her turn for a project though it will be a bit harder - Home Depot isn't 10 min away roundtrip, it is more like 1 1/2 hours away! We had better make sure we have everything in one stop!
Wednesday morning I headed out back to Texas. I made it to Santa Rosa where Jeff got me a very nice room! It even had free internet! :) I crashed (in bed, not in the car)! I think I drove for 11 hours. Thursday's drive was hard, but only 8 hours since I pushed myself the day before. The past 3 weeks caught up with me then. All I could think of was getting home to see Jeff! I gased up in Tucumcari and didn't have to stop once for gas. I think I took maybe 2 potty breaks, and decided that if I didn't eat or drink, the potty breaks wouldn't be needed....so I skipped lunch and sped home! Now we did go eat Mongolian when I came home...I was starving!
It is good to be back. Weird and surreal almost. Jeff has kept the house in good order. He put the swimming mats away - summer is over. All his laundry is done, no dishes in the sink, bed made....he is awesome! Of course I get home, unload the car and BLAM! the house is a wreck! Bed isnt made - I am still in my PJs even though it is almost noon. Nice to be lazy (for at least one day.) On a weird side note - when I left Circleville Wednesday morning it was about 36 degrees, when I arrived in Rowlett Thursday afternoon it was 86 degrees and humid! I had to change out of my jeans into capris!
I was at Angie's house from September 21st until October 1st. During that time, Angie and I got a lot accomplished (with the help of Gideon and Scott & a few of her ward friends - who happen to both know Greg & Allison Bair - one cuz she use to live in my current ward & the other cuz Greg & her hubby went to law school together - how weird is that?). Jeff has been a trouper, but started missing me & asked me when I think everything would be wrapped up so I could come home - Thursday afternoon. I decided that I would leave Thursday noonish and drive back down to Circleville - run over to St. George to go shopping for Bunko gifts - then head home and be home by Sunday night.....
Angie & I got up early on Thursday and hit the ground running! She had gotten a new vacuum cleaner, a Dyson, and boy did that speed things up! It did the blinds, the baseboards, and the carpet! We were so productive that I just knew at noon that we only had 30 min or so left....so 2 hours later, I left. It was a nice visit. I got to know Andrew and JT. JT was introduced to "Scooby Doo" and I don't think Angie & Scott's life will be the same! hahaha! I even got JT asking for a "Coke" instead of some "Pop"! I tried to school him in the finer Texas things! :) Now I just need to teach him "Gig 'em" and that t.u. stinks! Oh by the way..."dumb" is a bad word in their household, so if you are trying to open a smoke detector (that apparently has no battery and can't be opened) - don't say that it is "dumb" - JT picked up on that word right away! Scott trying to distract him asked what they should call the fruit smoothie he made..."Yummy Tummy?" JT just looked at him and with a straight face said, "No, I think we should call it 'Dumb'." Oops!
On my way out of town, I called Aaron & Rebecca to tell the goodbye and that I was glad that I could go to Daniel's 4th Birthday dinner the night before. Aaron told me that Rebecca was on her way to IKEA to look at some bedding for the room. I have never been to IKEA and heard it was cool. I thought, "Oh, what is one more hour..." Ummmm....have you ever been to IKEA? It is huge! And we know how decisive Rebecca is from my previous posts...So we ended up shutting IKEA down! I wouldn't let her settle on just anything. Nothing seemed to fit her room or the colors she wanted. I spent the night at their house and we went internet window shopping. I felt that I now had a stake in Rebecca and Aaron's room and I was going to help her find her bedding and she wasn't going to settle for anything! So after 5 hours of mall shopping for this "perfect" bed set, with all 4 kids - thank you UEA, Rebecca settled for a "champagne" bed set. She calls it "mmm...brown", but it is "champagne". Now for the paint color and some Euro pillows. Funny thing happened on the way to get all of that....we were at Kohl's for the Euro pillows and there it was....the perfect bed set, in Full size. Thanks to the iphone we were able to look up Kohl's online and see that they had the King set online. We bought a single decorative pillow and we were off to Home Depot to color match. Saturday morning painted the walls - silver (or light gray, depending on how creative you want to be with the name) while listening to conference on the radio...how cool is that? You can listen to conference on the radio in UT?!?!?! After the painting, Aaron wanted to drive up a canyon on the way to Logan to look at the cool foliage. Everyone but Rebecca, Matthew, and I fell asleep so they missed the cool color changes in the leaves that had already fallen off the trees, but we got to listen to conference again on the radio and take a drive! Fascinating! I left Sunday morning after my work there had been done. I enjoyed the quick visit again. I got to watch Sarah take one of her first "strolls". (more than one step) She definately doesn't want a sippy cup if she sees any Sonic drinks anywhere around. She signs "more" and then gets upset if you don't give her a sip - I mean she did sign "more" so she should automatically get her reward! :) Matthew and I had fun playing with my car and driving to Sonic to get drinks. I think I had about 2 a day! (That is another good thing about Angie moving out of North Salt Lake - the closest Sonic was in Layton! How can anyone live in those conditions?) Matthew loved talking on the phone to me over my bluetooth and having me put it in reverse so he could be on camera. Our last Sonic run, I got Sarah her own Route 44 Sprite, that way whoever could actually drink their own drink in peace, although I think she would just look at hers and then yours and would beg some drink anyway, I mean, what if you were holding out?
So Sunday I was in Circleville. Monday morning, Susan & I woke up, got the kids to school and then headed out to St. George for a "Girls Day". We went to Krumpits, where I unfortunately bought a lot of stuff! Then had to wait cuz my credit card got flagged by Citibank as "unusual" activity - how embarrassing! We did lunch, went here, went there...pretty soon it was 9 pm! Driving to Circleville, at night, in the fall - not recommended - there are deer everywhere. Susan was driving, Jeff's new car, so slow with the high beams on - we saw some many deer in the ditches - it was really freakin' me out! Luckily we got home safe! Tuesday, I was able to go help out at the school's "reading store". The PTA puts this together every month. The students get reading medallions for the amount of time they read each month. At the end of the month, the PTA opens the store and the kids get to shop. They have 6 tables set up ranging from 10 pts to 120 pts. The prizes on each table are according to price. So the table with 10 pts might have a lot of cheap candy. Prizes on the 40 pt table (that is the one I was at) had prizes like lipgloss, pom poms, stop watch, big monster truck. The 80 pt and the 120 pt table had the big prizes, lava lamps, necklaces, footballs, etc. They started this program last year and have seen a jump in the amount of reading the students do. They get a max of 40 pts each month, so they got to drool over the 80 & 120 tables this month - if they save their pts they can shop there next month or the month after. The little kids wanted to spend all their pts. Some of the older ones saved them so they could get the bigger prizes. Each one of my nieces came up and gave me a big hug. It was fun to see them in school. Kari bought lipgloss (I actually told her it was nail polish...oops!), Kate got some eyeshadow, and Emily got a cute pair of sunglasses. Later that night while Susan went to YW and Gary was at a cattle auction, the girls and I had a pajama party girl's night - I did the girls' nails and makeup and then Emily did my nails while the Kate & Kari did my makeup. Poor Jason, he just sat watched a movie. Although I think he was relieved that I wasn't going to do his nails and makeup! :) It was a lot of fun! Luckily Susan is "easy" - all I had to do for her was make a connection from her laptop to TV so they could enjoy instant Netflix. No cleaning, no moving furniture, no painting.... although I think she has some plans brewing in that head of hers.... When it is her turn for a project though it will be a bit harder - Home Depot isn't 10 min away roundtrip, it is more like 1 1/2 hours away! We had better make sure we have everything in one stop!
Wednesday morning I headed out back to Texas. I made it to Santa Rosa where Jeff got me a very nice room! It even had free internet! :) I crashed (in bed, not in the car)! I think I drove for 11 hours. Thursday's drive was hard, but only 8 hours since I pushed myself the day before. The past 3 weeks caught up with me then. All I could think of was getting home to see Jeff! I gased up in Tucumcari and didn't have to stop once for gas. I think I took maybe 2 potty breaks, and decided that if I didn't eat or drink, the potty breaks wouldn't be needed....so I skipped lunch and sped home! Now we did go eat Mongolian when I came home...I was starving!
It is good to be back. Weird and surreal almost. Jeff has kept the house in good order. He put the swimming mats away - summer is over. All his laundry is done, no dishes in the sink, bed made....he is awesome! Of course I get home, unload the car and BLAM! the house is a wreck! Bed isnt made - I am still in my PJs even though it is almost noon. Nice to be lazy (for at least one day.) On a weird side note - when I left Circleville Wednesday morning it was about 36 degrees, when I arrived in Rowlett Thursday afternoon it was 86 degrees and humid! I had to change out of my jeans into capris!
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