Now that my new RE has me back on Progesterone, Ben and I are going to keep charting and trying to get pregnant on our own while I continue working on my weight loss until my next RE appointment at the end of August. So I was super excited to get a chance to try [...]
Okay - maybe that’s a little extreme. I just didn’t get any news I really wanted to hear. A couple of weeks ago, I met with a new PCOS doctor in Philly, hoping to get a better answer than “the most dangerous thing you can do to a baby is be as fat as you [...]
Talking about infertility is a funny thing. It’s a hard combination of intimacy and candidness. As a blogger, I’ve opened up a little about our unique process and my emotions that come with it, but I don’t talk about everything. I know women who are much more open and share every part of their cycle. [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we got a letter from Ben’s insurance, saying they’ve approved the pre-authorization request for the genetic testing to find out if he’s a carrier for LGMD. The prescription for the blood work showed up about a week later. At that point, it hit me that this is really happening. We’re [...]
Last year, I wrote a post, hoping it would be the last time I was not celebrating Mother’s Day. And here I am, another year later, and still no Momma-status. It is hard not to feel like a failure. I am reminded that the terrifying downside of setting goals when you have no control over [...]
This week is National Infertility Awareness week. I’ve wanted to pretend that I didn’t notice. (Which is sort of amusing, considering the theme for this year is “Don’t Ignore Infertility.) I read the heartbreaking stories, the hopeful stories, and the in-between. Most of the time, instead of offering words of encouragement, I closed my eyes [...]
So now that I’ve told you all about the appointments of the trial, it’s time to get into the nitty gritty. We have an answer about how my disease will affect a pregnancy. It seemed appropriate to save this post until today since it’s the two year anniversary of Pour Your Heart Out; this whole [...]
We left Wednesday morning at what felt like the ass-crack of dawn (so it was only 6, but we were up at 4:30am, which I’m sure is considered a form of torture, somewhere) and four hours later, had tackled morning commute traffic and not-so-fabulous directions, hospital security procedures, and a lengthy admissions session. It became [...]
Tomorrow is the “big day” and the first of my 2-day clinical trial. At this point, I am feeling pretty stressed out. And not just because yesterday Cheyenne got loose and was having a grand time running through the neighborhood, or the fact that Ben has plans tonight so he won’t be home to help [...]
You know what happens when you work on a bunch of things that all seem to take forever, and throw roadblock after roadblock in your face, just tempting you to quit? Karma sees fit to put the finished product in your lap at about the same time. In an about a week, I’ll be scheduling [...]
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