As I said in my very first blog entry, I was always told that if you let a penis touch your leg, you’d get pregnant. This is the impression most 5th grade health teachers leave you with. If you were in a two-mile radius of sperm, you’d get knocked up, have no money and the […]
3 eggs, 2 Weeks & 1 Blog Read More »
I spent twenty minutes today explaining what IVF is to the Russian woman giving me a bikini wax. I don’t usually have such conversations when getting the “hedges trimmed” but when I took off my pants and hopped up on the table, she noticed the bruising on my stomach and asked me what that was
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As of yesterday morning, I still hadn’t received my HCG shot from my mail order pharmacy. It seems like every time my doctor calls my them, they come up with something else that needs to be completed before giving me my medicine. It’s like they are holding my HCG shot hostage and won’t ship it
Pharmaceutical Purgatory Read More »
Between eating egg white omelets almost every morning (they are low in fat and no cholesterol), Easter eggs and the hormone shots I’m taking to produce more eggs, I’m on egg overload. I’m also premenstrual. If I were Justin Timberlake, I’d be bringing crabby back. This morning, at our favorite diner, our chipper waitress asked
Green Eggs and Sam Read More »
I believe it was around the time I turned 15 that I noticed I developed some extra fat in my lower abdomen. It’s almost like a pouch that I can’t store anything in. Even when I was only 105 pounds, I had this little extra something at the bottom of my stomach. Sit ups, diets,
The Benefit of the Bagel Read More »
Do you ever have one of those days where nothing horrible has happened but everything seems to be going against you? It’s raining, your umbrella breaks while trying to open it, your hair isn’t cooperating, you can’t find your keys, your bra is uncomfortable, you just missed your train/bus/subway, you can’t remember if you put
At present, I’m suffering from an evil, annoying cold. It’s one of those colds when breathing out of your right nostril just for a few seconds is a treat. Your head hurts, you’re sneezing constantly, your throat is sore and you sound as nasal as Fran Dresher on helium. Bottom line – I am NOT
The Connection between Twin Peaks & Trying to Conceive Read More »
If you’ve been reading my blog postings regularly, you’d know that our first IUI was around my birthday and Thanksgiving. Oddly enough, our second IUI ended up happening a week before Christmas. And although we didn’t know it yet, our third IUI would end up being on Valentine’s Day. It was like getting inseminated was
The Second Failed Insemination – “The Feliz Navidad Incident” Read More »
As you may know from reading my blog, we are aiming to start my first InVitro process in the next few weeks. Today, I saw my doctor to touch base and see where we’re at in terms of timing. I’ve had the NuvaRing in for almost three weeks to give my ovaries a much needed
The Uninvited Cyst Read More »
The first time we tried insemination (“IUI”) was just after my birthday and right before Thanksgiving. Instead of Sam giving me a big ol’ expensive gift, he gave me a sperm sample. If life were perhaps like a David Lynch film, this might be considered romantic. As is typical, I took 150 milligrams of Clomid
The First Failed Insemination (A.K.A. “The Starbucks Incident”) Read More »