So, even though both the door and the book have been closed on Plan B, I still have Hope. Hope is a total biiiitch and I truly hate her. Why, just today she woke me up at 5 AM whispering “Hey, you’re late [yanno, late] and you do still have all those Clearblue Easy digitals [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Just as I thought, the tally of pregnancies is now up to 4, with a total # of expected babies up to 5 (WOW!). I am so happy for all of you
» Read the rest of this entry ...Nothing new on the baby front – one of us kinda freaked the eff out about actually paying for the care n’ upkeep of a Small Person, so the other of us is just Not Thinking About It But Hopes For Better News in Early 2010.
(Oh, and one of us respectfully requests no Plan B [...]
So, I had my big doctor’s appointment on Tuesday. Everything went well with Dr. K and his nurse but the “financial counselor” (aka the Money Lady) actually thought we should pay for IVF. Paying for medical treatment! Of all the wacky concepts. The money bottom line is big but not impossible so we are going [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...(or next Tuesday, 10 AM, for those of you who do not think of the time span of 1 week equalling 168 hours…)
Visiting Dr. K’s office next Tuesday. I don’t know if this means I don’t get to start drugs until next month, but technically next Tuesday is before day 21 so we shall see. And [...]
Soooo… blood draw was on Wednesday at 8:30 AM. I still haven’t heard anything. I’m not nervous, just excited to hear something. If this is the month to start Lupron and other injectables, I’d like a little time to weigh my pharmacy options and find the lowest cost provider.
In the meantime, here are some interesting [...]
seems to officially be on the road.
Went to LabCorp today for my first IVF related bloodwork. Hopefully I’ll hear about the results early next week and Dr. K will give me an official game plan. I did not know this until recently, but it appears that IVF is generally a two month endeavor.
Here is what [...]
(who knew?)
So, today I saw four doctors. Actually, three doctors and a dentist. Therefore, my day went like this:
7:45 AM: “Brush your gums more!” (I haven’t had the heart to tell my dentist that we should all just be pleased that I make it out of bed in the morning and that any time I [...]
So we are going to the reproductive endocrinologist’s office next Friday at 2. So scared. Right after that (yes, I am a master planner) we meet with the doctor handling Gene’s end of things. And to add the dentist that morning. Yea siree bob.
(Plus, Gene goes to the dentist at the end of October)
(and I [...]
(www.dlisted.com has a tag for his baby-related posts called “BABIES!”, so the title is copying him).
So, one piece of really good news: I am going to be an aunt. My little brother (Macauley/Bill) and his wife Michelle are going to have a baaaaaby!!! That is exactly all that I know but I intend to nag [...]