A Gift and we are underway!

Wow, this has been a very long week. But one of my classes, gave me a really sweet gift this week. It was a gift certificate for a 60 minute Swedish massage!!! I thought that was so sweet, and much needed after the week I have had dealing with my other class. So I can not wait to put that to good use.

Finally, today I will begin taking the Clom.id and getting this cycle underway. Yesterday I also bought the Cle.arBlue Easy Ovulation moniter, which was pretty expensive, but it is important to monitor my LH and FSH levels so we can time the IUI correctly. I am excited about getting this all underway and feel like we are "doing" something!!!!

I will let you know how it progresses, and we are set for our first US this coming Friday April 2!! Hopefully my little eggs will get peculating :)

Thank you all for the prayers, and let's see what happens......

Finally....

Well finally AF showed up yesterday. SO now we can begin our journey with the IUIs, hopefully to get our baby!!!

So I called the clinic on Day 1 (yesterday) and we have the first US scheduled for next Friday, April 2nd. I begin taking the Clo.mid on Saturday for 5 days. After the US next Friday, they will let us know when the actual IUI will be. Will keep you guys updated!!!

Still incredibly late!

Well I just STILL have not started!!!! I am about 11 days late now and AF is still no where in sight. I called the clinic on Friday and they said to give it another week until net Friday and if I have still not started, then I will have to come in and get a blood preg test so they can give me Provera. You take Provera for like 5 days and then it causes you to bleed afterwards.

The nurse Wendy thinks that because I want to get a new treatment underway, that my body is just not cooperating. Soooooooo needless to say we are still waiting.......

On another note, I was offered a full-time position with a very nice salary at my current job as a college professor. I have to let them know on Monday if I accept it, but I am going to. We feel so blessed by this in such a terrible economy.

Also, I have been "toying" with the idea of going back to school to get my RN degree at the school where I teach. The reasons I am thinking of this are multi-fold, but the most important one is job security for the future, you can get a job as a nurse ANYWHERE. And the more I teach these students, the more I think I would really like it. Not to mention I would get an 80% tuition grant if I remain employed while going to school. And there in lies the problem. We just can not afford for me to not work, so I don't know how I could feasibly really work 40+ hrs per week and go through a very accelerated RN prgm. I could be finished in 12 months, but just so much to think about!!!! So we are in much prayer of this decision and would appreciate my peeps praying with us. I will let you know when we make a decision.

I think it would be pretty weird to have a PhD going back to school to get my RN degree but honestly having a PhD is not so great in this economy!!! You are so boxed in as to what you can do.

I will update again once I know when we will start the Clo.mid. Talk soon! Have a great weekend everyone!

You know it is always the same result....

So tonight, I went out with 14 girl friends for a ladies night out, and it was a welcome end to a VERY long week. Sweetness and I are still anxiously awaiting beginning our first OI with IUI this next cycle. Well I am 3 days late, and of course I have been thinking this COULD be "it". But I never get my hopes up.

So after getting home from dinner, I almost begrudgingly took a HPT, and of course it's negative. Sometimes I wonder if we will ever get to celebrate and not ache. But I quietly just came back into the living room and sat down with my sweet husband and said nothing.

So of course when I want AF to come, she won't, when you dread it and feel like this may be THE month, AF shows up early. I don't mean to sound depressed, because actually I don't think I am, just frustrated at the continual roller coaster. I am ready to get off now......

New Clinic and lots of Hope

Sorry to keep you all waiting after my visit yesterday. But it actually went very well.

I met with the new doctor at my new clinic and of course already had all my records, testing and all that fun stuff. He talked to me for a long while about what I have had done and what he would like to do next.

So we decided that we are going to do 3-4 months of Clom.id and IUI together. We have never done this, we just skipped on ahead to IVF, mainly because we thought we had a better chance and pooled our limited funds to that. But this clinic is significantly cheaper than my old place. It is going to cost a total of $535 for one round of Clomid with US and IUI, compared to $1625 at my old clinic, that's why we never tried this way, because we thought it would take thousands to do this.

So as soon as my cycle starts which should be in about 4 days, I will call the clinic and then take the Clom.id for days 5-9, then US on day 13, trigger ovulation that or the next day, and then IUI the next day. Then wait 2 wks to see if we conceived. He said we are more than welcome to do IVF after we try the Clom.id induction, if it does not work.

I left there felling so hopeful!!! I mean we can afford this right now, and it feels like I am "doing" something. I know the Lord is in ultimate control but this feels very exciting again. Thank you for your prayers as we undertake more fertility treatments, but these cycles will be much less costly, and invasive. When we did the postcoiltal test at my old clinic, it was inconclusive, so maybe we do have a sperm-mucous problem, and by "air-lifting" the sperm to the top of the uterus, it will overcome that.

So to celebrate our new found hope, we went to eat and while we were waiting for our movie to start, we walked through the mall. Sweetness pulled me in to the Bu.ild-A-Bear store. I have never been in there before, but oh how fun!!!

We built each other a puppy dog, and Sweetness said he wants me to hold this puppy while undergoing all these fertility treatments, and we named it "Hope". He is just so sweet! We had so much fun, almost felt like we were being kids!!!

Then we went and saw the movie celled "Valentine's Day" and boy was it great!!!! Definitely recommend it. We had such a wonderful day from start to finish and I could not ask for more!

I will definitely keep you updated as we progress through these IUI cycles!!!
To God be the Glory!!!

Let the games begin again!

I know I have not blogged in awhile, just been so BUSY of course.....blah blah blah.....

But I had some news I wanted to share. This past weekend, Sweetness and I went on a double date with a friend of mine and her husband. I met her because she is the nurse of one of my top doctors with my old job. Well we of course got around to talking about IVF and how bad this whole situation sucks and how we are looking forward to what comes next.

Well she proceeds to text the doctor she works for because his wife (Lisa) is one of the head nurses at the other infertility clinic in our area, the Jones Institute. This is where IVF was INVENTED, they are the ones who made the first test tube baby! Well Dr. E texted my friend his wife's cell number and told me to call her. So yesterday, I gave her a call and we talked about what all we have been through and what they may think is the next step for us to having a baby.
Well let's just say it helps TO KNOW PEOPLE!!!! So they called today and Lisa was able to hook me up and got me a consultation with the top doctor there this Friday at 1030 am!!! I would be lying if I said I was not excited. I am SUPER excited, I guess just to hear what somebody else has to say about our situation.

One other thing is that at this clinic, they have what is called a "Shared Risk Program" If you meet certain criteria, you can pay a sum for a chance of 2 or 4 tries with IVF, but the catch is if you get pregnant on the first try, then you have paid way more money than needed, but if you need several tries to get pregnant, (like obviously I will), you are assured of the other tries all under that one fee. So we are going to look into this for sure.

I am really looking forward to moving this along, and certainly will let you guys know what he says on Friday!!! Please pray that the Lord's will would be done and what He has for us would be revealed to us and God will make a way if it is HIS will!!!!

Thanks guys!!!