Good news!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a relief! I went for my labs and ultrasound today. The first thing the nurse said when she came in the room was that my labs were great. That already relieved me a little to begin with because that meant that my eggs were in fact growing. Then she did the ultrasound and she said that there are 4 eggs!!!! They are almost big enough, but not quite. So that means 2 more days of injections (tonight and tomorrow morning) and then tomorrow night I give myself the last injection. That's the one that makes me ovulate. So.....that means we do the IUI on saturday morning. Yay! Yay! Yay! I'm so glad these injections worked. What a huge relief to know that I didn't spend $700 on nothing, well, not nothing, but I'm sure you know what I mean.

So that's where we are now. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers on saturday and hope this is it for us! We will be doing a pregnancy test on February 14th! Yup, on Valentine's day...perfect. :)

Something is happening!

So totally weird, maybe a couple of hours after I posted my last entry, I got my period on my own! Yay! (who knew I would get excited about getting my period...weird)

So I went to Dr. Synn's office, he did an ultrasound and everything looks great. They said my ovaries are perfect. I started my injections yesterday and I will be doing those for a week. On the 28th of this month, I will go back to the office and have some lab work. They will be checking my estradiol levels and then later that day I have an ultrasound to see how many eggs (if any) I have going on in there. If the egg count is good and they are the right size, I will be having my first IUI on the 30th! So keep your fingers and toes crossed and keep us in your prayers. I think the 2 weeks following the insemination will be the 2 hardest weeks ever. If only there was a way of knowing right away if the insemination worked or not...

I will let you know what happens.

I know, I suck

I know it's been a while, I just don't really have that much new stuff going on.

My trip to Montreal was wonderful. My new nephew is the cutest, sweetest thing in the world! Everybody was so nice to me when I was there. They knew that I wouldn't get that much time with Liam so they let me cuddle with him as much as I wanted. He's such a sweet little guy. It's hard not being there to see him grow up...hopefully we can get out of here soon and get to Indy so that I can be closer to family.

So the last time that I posted, I let you know that I was just waiting until I got back from Montreal to start Progesterone so that I could get a period since it had been 2 months since the last time that I had one. Once I take progesterone for a week, 2-3 days after I stop, I get a period. Then we were going to start injections to get me ready for an IUI. Well, of course, with my luck (not) I started my period while I was in Montreal. What does that mean for us you ask...well it means that we have to wait another month before we can start IUI's since I couldn't go to see Dr. Synn while I was in Canada. Stupid body! Anyhow, so now I am just waiting for my period once again. If I don't get it within the next couple of days, I will start progesterone and get the freakin ball rolling. So that's where we are now...waiting once again for something to happen.

So really that's all that is new for now. I will let you know what happens when something actually happens.

Belated Update

I know, I know, I am totally late updating this thing. Ive just been really busy.

I went to my post op appointment with Dr. Synn on the 9th and he said that everything went well during the surgery. He showed me pictures of my beautifully open tubes and nice uterus. He also showed me before and after pics of my ovaries. The before pics of my ovaries shows them being big, round and shiny...like golf balls. Well, that wasnt good. That meant that I had a crap load of cysts in my ovaries due to PCOS (yeah, I dont have pcos...right Dr. Shebelut, thanks a lot for wasting my time). So, Dr. Synn said that he did ovarian drilling. Say what? Never heard of such a thing. Well, it is exactly as it sounds, he drilled holes in my ovaries!! I guess it is supposed to help the egg release from there. Ok, whatever you say, hope it works. So after showing me pictures, he said that I have 3 options at this point. The first one is that I could go back on clomid. Well, we tried that and nothing happened so I said no thanks. The second option is to start on injections and to start IUIs (intrauterine inseminations)...that sounds good. The third and last option is to do IVF (in vitro fertilization)...dont think we are quite ready for that just yet.

So it looks like when I come back from my trip to Montreal, we are going to start injections and IUIs. Im excited about that. Im in Montreal right now visiting with my beautiful new nephew Liam who was conceived by IUIs so I know that they work. I dont think that Mike is really excited about it mainly because of his part in the process. We might try injections and the natural way of conceiving at first, we will see. We need to talk about it some more.

The 9th was our one year wedding anniversary. I still cannot believe that it has already been a year! Its crazy how quickly time flies.

Oh and I will post pitcures of my beautiful nephew as soon as I can! He is seriously so cute, I just want to put him in my pocket and take him back to cali with me. Its amazing how you can love someone you just met so completely.

Lily was right!

Lily was so right about Dr. Synn. He just called me to see how I was doing and to see if I had any questions. Told him I wanted to know how things went. He said that everything went very well, very textbook. My tubes are nice and open...yay!!! I thought it was really nice of him to call and make sure I was doing ok. Most doctors have their nurse call to follow-up. I thought it was a nice personnal touch. Oh and when I said that I was sore he actually apologized...haha, i'm like it's totally fine, comes with having surgery, no worries. He said that he had to put in some mesh to keep scar tissue away from my tubes and ovaries and that's a lot of manipulating so that's probably why i'm really sore.

So that's what's going on. Now I just have to heal and it's back to baby making. Cross your fingers!

Update

So I called the Dr's office. Of course, he is not in the office today and of course he has my chart with him. The nurse that I spoke to said that with Dr. Synn no news is good news. She said that if anything didn't go as planned, he would have called me to let me know. So I will go with "no news is good news" until I see him on December 9th for my post-op appointment.

How funny is it that my post op is on our anniversary. That's when he will tell me if we can resume the baby making and what the next step is from here. I'm thinking injections, but we shall see.

Lots of love

Versed, Zofran and Darvocet...my new best friends!

I am home from surgery. Everything went smoothly. Unfortunately, I didn't get to speak to the doctor after surgery, but he told Mike that everything went really well and that I was doing just fine. I am going to assume that the surgery was successful. I will try to call the office today to see if I can get a straight answer as to whether or not he was able to open up my tubes.

I feel ok. My lower abdomen is a lot more sore than I thought it would be. It feels like someone punched me about 20 times down there. Thankfully the darvocet is working. I've got quite a few bruises on my belly too but that's not too bad and it was expected. I didn't sleep great because of the soreness and the fact that I had to pee about 20 times, but I see a lot of naps in my near future. Clovis hospital is wonderful. All the staff was excellent and very friendly...they even gave me a small bouquet of flowers when I left! I thought that was really sweet. If they had an NICU there, I would gladly deliver our baby there (someday soon hopefully). St-Agnes has gotten so ghetto, I mean seriously, last week, someone actually did some graffiti on the bathroom wall with a sharpie. Come on!

I will post more news when I have some. I will now try to call the Dr's office.

Lata!