And we are on our way....

Finally, in true Heather fashion, AF showed yesterday a full 14 days late!!! UGHHHH

So I called the clinic and reported cycle day 1 and then they called back and gave me my tentative dates!!!! So here it goes:
7/9/10- begin BCPs
7/23/10- begin daily Lupron injections
7/26/10- stop BCPs
7/29/10- baseline visit, pay all the $$$, baseline scans, begin stimming meds
8/9 or 8/10/10- egg retrieval
8/13/10- egg transfer (hopefully)

Now all these dates are estimates and may change a few here or there, but this is what we are looking at! I am so excited to get started!!! Even if it is taking a birth control pill every day for right now, we are moving forward!!! Thank you for the prayers and I will certainly keep you updated!!!

Love is in the air !!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!!!! I know Sweetness and I did!!! We started off the weekend by attending the wedding of our sweet friend Kristen. She married her love Josh on Saturday, July 3rd, and it was so beautiful!!! So without too much rambling, I thought I would share some pictures with you of the highlights!!

Ready???? OK!!!

Ok, the first picture here is my precious friend Tara......Love you!!
Sorry this one is blurry, but they were walking so fast! This is my other precious friend Robin! She is due in almost 7 weeks with her sweet baby girl, Brehana!!!

There were 3 other bridesmaids, but I did not know them! LOL!

And without further addo, here comes the beautiful bride and her dad!!!

The lighting of the unity candle!

And finally THE KISS!!!

Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Snyder!!! Love you guys!!!

Now onto the reception!! Here is her beautiful cake!!!! Obviously her colors were red, black and white. So nice!

The newlyweds at their sweetheart table!!

Oh and hey, who's that???!!! It's me and Sweetness just kickin back and enjoying the festivities!!

And here is a close-up of me and my precious Tara again!!!

And we finally got our turn to take a picture with the bride!!

And now let's cut the cake!!! That cake was so delicious!!

And they were very sweet and did not mash it all over one another!

I love this picture!!! Here is me and my posse!!! These are all my bestest buds! Love them all!!!

The funny thing about this picture to me is I actually look pregnant!!! I am not, and my stomach does not stick out like that, I think it was the ruffles on the bottom of the dress that made it look like I was PG!! Someday soon.......

The gift table!!

Then the dancing began! Sweetness would not dance any of the line dances with us, so he was the photog!!!

OK enough crazy dancing pictures. Later on in the night, we danced several slow songs and it was so nice!!!

And to close it out, here is a picture of Sweetness and me, just as we were leaving! We had a great time Kristen and Josh; thank you so much for letting us be a part of your special day!!!

And just a quick note on the IVF story. I AM STILL WAITING ON AF!!! I mean seriously, no wonder we cant get pregnant, when I am SOOOOO irregular! So the clinic said yesterday to let's wait until this Monday, and if still no show (that means 2 weeks late) then we will do some hormone testing to see where my cycle is. I feel like it will come eventually, just not in my time table!!! Thank you for hanging on this journey with us...... we will start soon!!!

I have a great doctor all lined up!!

So I went to my MFM doctor yesterday to get the final expert answer about me taking morphine while pregnant. Dr A agreed that the benefit here in my situation outweighs the risks to the baby. And when I say risks, I am not talking about birth defects or teratomas, I am talking about the baby may be born needing some morphine and be taper off. He agreed the injury to my neck is severe enough that it warrants this. So I am relieved that is over and decided, because I was really worried that I was going to do if they said no. The pain is just so severe.

And on the IVF front, I STILL HAVE NOT STARTED!!!! I am now a full 7 days late, and no I am not PG!!! Don't I wish! So here we wait for AF to show, and then I begin the fun!!!

Hope you guys have a very safe and fun 4th of July weekend!!! I will update more later!!!

Yep.....Shingles!!!

Hey ya'll!!! Well in the adventures that are our life, we have had one thing after another.

1. Our AC broke, only a mere $700 to fix it!
2. Huge falling out with my best friend!
3. and now we have Sweetness being diagnosed with Shingles today!

So of course AF was supposed to show up last Friday, and in true fashion because I actually WANT her to show, she wont. So I am waiting on it, and then I will begin the BCPs!!

So, I have called the clinic and they said shingles on hubby should not be a problem, as long as I dont get it. So Sweetness being the precious one he is, has set up his bedroom in the guest bedroom until he is no longer contagious. But we must endure I do not get this!!!

And one more thing, I have an appointment with Maternal Fetal medicine on Thursday. Reason is, I have a serious neck injury to my occipital nerve, (from a roller coaster in case you are wondering) for which I just recently began taking morphine extended release. It has been a god-send. I actually have gotten my life back-and I mean literally! Anyone close to me knows how much I have truly suffered, and I am a new woman. I did not realize just HOW MUCH pain I was in.

Well my new RE is all nervous-nelly about me taking it, when my pain doctor said it was absolutely fine. Believe me, I do not want to take medicine, but I am in a serious situation. So my RE is sending me to the MFM guys to evaluate the situation. I will have a better idea on Thursday, and will let you know.

It feels exciting to know we are on our way now, come on AF, lets get 'er done!!!

The plan....

Hey guys!!! It seems most of the invited people have let me know one way or another that they are now on the blog with us, now that we are private!!!

So just wanted to give an update on where we are....... I am due to start my cycle any day now. The day I begin, we start Birth control pills (BCPs) and we are on those for 8 days, and then I begin Lupron injections. Lupron will function to basically put my ovaries into menopause, meaning they do not want my ovaries active AT ALL, then I will start injecting the stimming medications to mature many eggs at one time all at the same stage of development for harvesting. We are looking at being done with this cycle (and will know whether we are pregnant) by the end of July or early August!!!

We are so excited. I am trying to clean out everything and tackle some of the jobs on my list.

I am very stressed at work, and it is not good. I have caught some of the higher ups in lies and it is just not a good situation. I am trying really hard to be thankful I have a job in this down economy, but it is real tough some days. I do not need to be stressed at all during this stage, I don't want to waste $20 000!!!

Thank you for all coming along this journey with me!!! We will have an amazing ending!!!

We are private!!!

Hey everyone!!! So we are now officially private!! I will post more later, and I have some cool pictures to share. But for now, please leave a comment and let me know you have found us again, and everything went okay with the inviting process!!!

Talk again later!!! And thanks for following me on this journey!!!

Going Private......

UPDATE: Wow, I did not know I had so many people reading this blog!! I have gotten almost 40 emails to send an invite to them to keep reading! So that is great! Sometime at the beginning of the week I will post some directions on how to read once we go private, and then I will be sending the email! We are having a glorious weekend, and we will talk next week!!!


Hey ya'll!!! Hope you guys are having a great Monday!!!

Due to some reasons I will not elaborate on here, I have made the decision to take my blog private. So basically only invited readers can access it. In many ways I hate to do this, but in other ways, I need to.

So what I am asking is, if you read my blog, or care to continue reading as we move through our journey, please send me an email to heathermarsden117@gmail.com. I will have this up for one week, and then I will go private the beginning of next week. If I do not know you IRL, its still okay to ask, and I am pretty aware of who my blogger friends are. And I am so thankful for all of you that I have met through this blog, that have prayed for me and helped me through this.

Thanks to all of you, and we are super excited to begin our cycle in 2 short weeks!!! Hopefully we will be pregnant by the end of July!!!