My sister, Zappa, called last night. I had sent her a text earlier this week letting her know the IUI failed, but I didn’t feel like talking about it. She texted me back that she’d been thinking about me and that she was sorry. That was all I needed at the time. The conversation last […]
IUI#1 (and only) failed. Just as I suspected, I started my period on Saturday. The next step was to call the clinic and schedule a hysteroscopy, which I did yesterday. So now I get to look forward to having a camera shoved into my uterus next Tuesday. At that appointment, I should also get a […]
So…pretty sure this cycle is a bust. I wasn’t even supposed to test until Monday, but I started spotting yesterday and expect to see an actual period tomorrow. At 12dpIUI#1-A. Can you say luteal phase defect? How much vitamin D do I have to take to rectify this shit? I’m attempting to fill the hole […]
If a two-week wait can be broken down into anything other than halves or sevenths, I am roughly 2/3 of the way through mine. I’m not feeling very optimistic at this point. No, wait. That’s sort of a lie. I swing wildly between hopefulness and certain doom. If I feel vague cramping somewhere in my […]
No, I did not test this early. Because I am not completely insane. (Just a little bit.) The good news for today is that the insurance company accepted our appeal, and we will be reimbursed for 50% of the back-to-back IUIs we paid for out-of-pocket last week. Of course, nothing can go perfectly, so instead […]
I’ve debated about how much of the not-quite-adoption story I wanted to tell. But I think I feel okay talking about what happened, keeping everyone anonymous, since there is now very little chance this woman or her baby will be part of our lives. And I need to get it off my chest. My niece […]
It’s amazing what you don’t notice until you do. Yesterday I lost my ever-loving mind–oh, and my wedding ring. I didn’t notice until I was in the middle of my last home visit of the day–a visit I had arrived to 15 minutes late because, for some reason, it didn’t occur to me that to […]
*I’m not writing dpo or dpIUI because a) I don’t temp or chart, so I’m not sure when exactly I ovulated and b) we did 2 days of IUI, so I’m not sure which day I should start counting from. More bullets! Because I can’t manage much else today. ♥ IUI 1-B went just as […]
What a day. I’m breaking it down for you, bullet-style: ∞ Thank you, everyone, for attempting to keep me sane during my latest bout of the crazies. If all of this were just up to me and my silly husband, I probably wouldn’t have even made it this far without going bananas. Your support is always […]
I would kill my husband. Strangle him. Really. I’m so pissed right now. The clinic called back within minutes. To our home phone. And my husband had the ringer turned off. So an hour later, I discover a message on our answering machine (yes, we still have one of those). Of course, by then, the […]
Something Out of Nothing 