30+TTC 1yearish or more June - Page 2

[djs_girl517]

Korin - : :

Jodi - It's great to see you! Does this new revelation mean you're going to be stocking up? I guess it can't hurt, right?

ST - How awful that hackers would target something like that - that's completely hopeless! I hope you're able to get everything (or at least most things) put back together.
That really sucks about your insurance!

Adina -

Velveteen -

I just went to the local Christian store to pick up Father's Day cards for my dad and dh. I obviously avoided Mother's Day, but I had no idea that Father's Day cards would be such a mine field!! So many of them talked about "I love watching you play with our kids, I'm glad you're the father of my kids, blah, blah, blah. I had one picked out for my dad, but left it sitting on the shelf as I rushed out of the store to keep from breaking down in front of complete strangers...again. Well, I guess DH isn't getting a card from me for Father's Day.

[chiromama]

Wow.. we're getting chatty again! Much better than when we're all depressed and never posting!

ST - I'm so sorry about the hackers! :!!! Why can't they just hack a porn site? why do they have to hack something as delicate as your site? Bastards. Also. sorry about the horrendous COBRA payments. If you lived here, you'd have free chiropractic care. You are soooo lucky to meet W4B! She is one of the sweetest women alive! We seriously need to plan a meetup somewhere in the country... so we can all have a : Wouldn't that be amazing?

Jamie and Sleepy - good luck with the weight loss... I promise to eat your share of cookies for a while.

Ary - I really love the song reference... Things ARE going to change. Seems like I haven't produced any good songs lately.. someone give me some inspiration!!

Happy birthday month Annie!

[waiting4baby]

Thanks for all your support!! This is the best place ever!!!!

ST - What an awful thing for hackers to do!!! That's unforgivable. Ouch about your insurance! I can't imagine what it would be like to have to pay for those things out of pocket. I went through times without health insurance, but I really take it for granted now. Oh, and I would love, love, love to meet you in NYC!! You seem so amazing and cool!! Jim and I will be there from July 1st through July 6th. He's in conference many of those days, so I would be twiddling my thumbs without some distractions. I'll pm you with the schedule this weekend and my cell phone number so we can plan.

Korin - Awwww!!! Boy, I must have you fooled! :LOL I'm not quite as sweet as you let on! Camping sounds like fun! Dh and I have off the first week of August. If that doesn't work for everyone perhaps we can plan something for some other weekend this summer! Oh, and I hope the IUI tomorrow goes swimmingly!!!

Johanna - You got my name just right! It's hard to imagine you down in the dumps at all, or engaging in any self-pity. All of your posts are pithy and funny, even when you are describing something hurtful (like you being excluded from the local playgroup - how stupid are they??!! ). You are what I should be when I get down on myself - a humorist! It would definitely make my bouts of self-pity shorter if I could keep it all in perspective! I'm sorry you will soon be spermless - any chance the USPS will deliver??

Annie - Those cats sound sooo cute! I'll bet there's some t-shirt store that would make that shirt for your sister. That would be cool! Happy, happy birthday! I turned 33 last year and have really enjoyed being 33!!

Disgirl - I'm thrilled you have the ball rolling too! It feels so good to be doing something, ANYTHING, that might give you direction and answers!! And yes, why don't people get their heads on straight? Is it that difficult to see things from someone else's perspective and just have a smidge of sensitivity? How unkind to send those pictures to you! I'm looking forward to the time when mother's day is joyful, and not a day when I just know I'm going to be hurt by someone's lack of consideration. : Thanks for the quote - it's good to be reminded that someday ALL of us will be parents.

Squeaker - I'm hoping removing the polyp will work too. It is in the exact wrong spot for TTC'ing. And, my insurance will cover it (which is GREAT!!). So, that will happen mid-July and we can start TTC again in August - our 3-year TTC mark. Bleh!!

Adina - I wish there were a combination of herbs that would "gently guide" your body back into balance. 4 months without af sucks!! :

Velvet - Your dh is funny! If only a lot of hayrolling would do it!!

Sleepy - Looking forward to the day when I can use your cute products! Didn't you post your website with a diaper covered with pictures of sock monkey?? Tooo adorable!!

I'm better this month. May just must have been the month to wallow. It was also dh's and my 6th anniversary, and I had always told myself we would have kids after we had been married for 3-5 years. We started TTC after we had been married for 3 years, and still have no baby to show for it . . . but I feel so much hope from the women here!! Thank you!!

[Annie]

Hopefully you'll never need a TTC 1year+, and that your TTC journey is short and sweet.

to all

[polka123]

cd 1

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[Ary99]

Polka, I'm sorry hon. That stinks.

I'm on day 13 of "high" on the magic fertility machine without a peak reading anywhere. And, my eagerly awaited phone consultation was postponed until tomorrow morning with Dr. Berkley. I'm terrified I'll scre up because of the New York Texas time difference (I'm smart in some ways but a complete idiot at the whole time zone thing).

More later,
Hil

[Ary99]

Korin, thinking about you and your IUI tomorrow! : and I was looking for the one with the fingers crossed but I couldn't find it!

GOOD LUCK!

[djs_girl517]

Polka & Ary -

[Stone Fence]

Hello

I've been stalking all of you for months now. People have come and gone and come back again.

We're at 40 weeks now and Junior doesn't seem to want to come out. Just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you. : for everyone.

[Annie]

ST-sorry you got hacked, that sucks, and so does the cost of your insurance,

Poka & Ary

Korin Good luck with your IUI :

Adina Im sending you O fairy and hoping AF comes your way soon

Sleepy Im really looking forward to the day when I and all of us can use your cute baby stuff.

Sorry I i've left anyone out

I'm 9 DPO and my temp is still up, and it's higher than usual, so hopefully I O'd a good eggie this month, and I'm really postive our timing was perfect this month :

Everyone :

[polka123]

Originally Posted by Ary99

Korin, thinking about you and your IUI tomorrow! : and I was looking for the one with the fingers crossed but I couldn't find it!

GOOD LUCK!

I must have missed this post

WOW - Good luck hoping for a :

[Sleepymama]

Go little spermies go!!

[chiromama]

thanks for stopping by Amy! Glad to know you're doing well!

Polka.. sorry about CD1. I'll be thinking of you.

IUI went fine. Count was good (as usual) motility was good, basically, if we didn't know that the antibodies were there, we'd think it was a normal semen sample. However, we know about the antibodies, so we're cautiously optimistic.
Our Doc wants us to consider a few more IUI's with R on the steroids, before we consider ourselves "IUI failures"... but we'll see, I'm thinking on it.
I wrote a whole post on my LJ.... if you're interested.

[Annie]

Go spermies go :

[djs_girl517]

Originally Posted by Annie

Go spermies go :

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[Johanna]

Korin - I really hope that antibodies be da*$ed you get knocked up from an IUI before you do the IVF. *hugs* I hope you are assuming I'm thinking about you. Cuz you'd be right.

Jodi - too bad I don't like yams. Maybe I could find a recipe that makes them reasonably palatable.. oh, and FIND some yams (maybe I'd luck out and find some at the store, I'm not holding my breath though).

ST - much to my dismay I've pretty much resigned myself to just be veggie while I'm here. Its hard enough to make certain I don't get fish/oyster sauce or animal stock in my food I'm not even going to battle with minute amounts of dairy and/or eggs. I miss having a nice health food store handy. I did, however, find a pretty good online healthy/organic site that ships out here. Just gotta save up for a nice big order And, thank you, btw, for thinking of me. Makes me a happy girl I'm really sorry about the board getting hacked into. What a psycho to do that! I hope things get more or less back to gether there for you guys. I can't imagine! I'm sorry about the health insurance thing What a nightmare. Don't get me into a discussion over the pharmesutical (sp?) industry, btw. I worked for a short time for a non profit place where I was very much educated on the workings of those Anyhow.... Its just like them to charge a lot for a shot that you need. My dad had $100 pills. For ONE PILL! He had to keep 5 of them on him at all times. Of course it was for his cancer so you can just imagine what it would have been like without them. *grumble*

Adina - I hope you're able to get to a naturopath and that maybe they can figure a way to help you with your cycles and you won't have to resort to getting on the pill

Velveteen - Thanks for the thoughts. I'm thinking of you enjoying the weather/area that I miss greatly. Especially because there's now a Trade Joe's closer to you hehe

Jamie - In instances where I can't find an appropriate card I just find a blank one and add my own stuff. Or find another card that says how you feel in the "love" section or whatever then add "Happy Father's Day" or whatever. I do understand your frustration, however.

L'Nayim - I'm jealous you get to meet the famous ST And you're all going camping? I'm SO jealous Maybe by some divine intervention or pure dumb luck I'll be able to be able to visit the lower 48 while Brett is in the academy. : I can't imagine being here for 3.5 months without him Pithy and funny, huh? I'll have to add that to my MSN name (I change it from time to time). "Johanna, pithy and funny, " hehe. I hope I come off funny. The humor is a defense mechanism. Its better than saying "I HATE THIS PLACE AND I WANT TO DIE!!" Of course, I don't really want to to die... its just better to be funny than to say THAT. Right? UPS doesn't deliver anything, really. But I'd love to see their faces carrying semen and KNOWING what they're carrying. That would be remarkably amusing. Happy Anniversary, btw. Hopefully, this TTC crap will end soon with a nice chubby baby in your arms. Anyway, good to see you again!

Polka - sorry for CD1

Hil - I'm so excited for your talk with the doctor! You MUST tell us everything that he says!

Amy - its great to see you poke your head in! We adore our graduates, you know

Annie - : that your timing was right on the mark and that that nice, fat eggy results in a nice fat baby

And me? I'm entering in what hopefully will soon be fertile time. BDing is not an issue as we are more than happy to fool around. Wouldn't you be after only seeing eachother for 3 out of 6 months not too long ago? Pig is in the tub, loudly splashing away. Brett is at work (has been for an hour now) and I'm debating on my next course of action for the day. I know I need to finish up a simple project for my MIL. I'm such a nice DIL.

I need to make new tea. I don't like this berry garbage. yuk.

[May-lily]

Hi all

Korin, fingers crossed this is the one.
Johanna, lucky you to be bd'ing away...not a bad way to pass the time up there...
Polka, sorry about cd1.

I dont have much energy for personals, so hugs to all...

I had my LEEP today and other than being really tired from the Percocet and the emotional intensity of having half a cubic inch removed from my intimate anatomy (I also saw the piece floating in serum in a bottle on the counter as I got dressed....) I have to say it went FAR better than I feared. In fact it was not as bad as the colposcopy. Even the first injection (the most painful) was not as bad as I thought it would be. Now I'm a little crampy but they gave me a bunch of strong painkillers.

It's just emotionally very hard because of a) the possiblity that it will show something even worse than the first diagnosis b) the feeling violated and "cut" c) having to wait 6 weeks (minimum) before gio or IUI. Which means because of the trip we're taking in July/aug that we may not be able to do any IUi over June, July and August and completely miss the summer...I feel pretty depressed about this. Basically since we've had the antibodies diagnosis in Jan it's been one thing after another after another and now who knows when we can resume...

Thanks for all your support over the weeks. It helps so much.

M

[Johanna]

May-Lily - I'm glad your LEEP went.. well, as well as possible. Hopefully its just the 6 weeks and no more so you can continue on your road to getting your baby

[Velveteen]

May-Lily, hoping you will heal very quickly!! Thinking of you.

[fenwickmama]

May-lily