3-2-1 FLY!!

It is pretty bad when you look at your blog and realize that it has been almost 7 months since you have made an entry. That is way behind.

Thankful November was never finished. Just a little bit of my personality shining through. One who begins great tasks with the intention of finishing, but never really getting it all done. Not to say that I was tremendously greatful the rest of November, I was just too busy to blog about it.

Fast Forward to June - present day.

As some of you readers know, we have had our struggle getting pregnant. Let me catch you up on that situation since I would like to turn this blog into a journal page for me and my future children of how I can remember their story and they will know how hard we worked to get them here. So this is a little of how that journey began.

Back in March, I re-visited Dr Billue, and made our wishes known that we were ready to take the baby-making business to the next level. After over 2 years of attempting with no success, it was time. At that time, Dr. Billue and Betsy referred, very highly reccomended, us out to a reproductive endocrinologist, Dr Andrew Harper. My appointment finally rolled around June 9th. (4 days ago). I know now why he comes so highly reccommended. We absolutely loved him. Very kind and compassionate with a sincere and genuine desire to "help" us attain pregnancy. During our consultation, we discussed our options...plan of care being, see what happens with this current cycle, then if unsuccessful, move on to IUI (intrauterine insemination.) Labs and U/S to be done on Monday (13th).
So today, well actually yesterday since I am up blogging after midnight, I went if for labs and U/S. After no less than 15 (yes, I counted) tubes of blood and almost passing out, I met Christine, who is my primary care nurse, and preformed the trans-vaginal U/S. All looked normal with a slight retro-verted uterus (a normal variant). My ovary on the left looked small and inactive this month and the R ovary looked as if it had just ovulated because it had a good sized fluid-filled sac (not a cyst - I asked) on the interior side. Christine will have rounds with Dr. Harper after lunch and will then call me in the afternoon for update. So I am expecting to hear back from her later, with probable, standard news about lab results and my next appointment.

Afterward I went home to work on homework and study for a test in all hopes of taking my mind off of all this stuff, because like it or not, I have a ton of other stuff going on. In the middle of a Mark Twain power point, I receive a phone call from Christine as expected. "Good news," she says, "that large thing that was coming off your ovary is not a fluid-filled sac, that was a follicle we saw. According to your lab work, you are ovulating. TODAY!"
Me "That's crazy!!"
Christine "I know but we are going with it. I am calling you in some medicine and we need to get going today."
Me "Wow...ok...When and where?"

So after all that and a self-injection, we are going with it and waiting and seeing.

It actually feels like we are making progress. Even though it was just a consultation I felt really good about it and had a good feeling all weekend. I was totally unsuspecting and had the thoughts that this could take a while and didn't have high expectations at all. Over the weekend a friend asked if I was ok with all that was going on and I compared it to riding that 3-2-1 FLY ride at the beach. It seems like forever to get to the top. We are being pulled up and up and up, and we get to the top finally and we are waiting on that person to pull the release to give us the ride of our lives. Our problem is we don't know if we are still going up or about to pull the release. But its ok, because I finally let go and I am finally waiting and seeing myself.