Hi, ladies. Missy - sooo funny! I think you are right that it is Claire doing the "jumping" on this board!
How wonderful to get a laugh! Those baby laughs are just amazing.
Michelle . . . I guess we "scared" you onto bcps!
With your history, perhaps it will be great for you until you are ready to ttc, and you'll have the same gl with a quick
post-bcps!
Claire . . . welcome back to ttc!
Kerry -
Randi - what kind of business, if you don't mind my asking?
Marleah - hello!
I think I got everyone . . . if not, I'm sorry!
The last week has been rough on me. I started getting sick on Friday, by Sunday I had full-blown bronchitis and had to go on antibiotics and decongestants and new asthma medicine. It was nasty. I started to improve, but then I got worse again . . . because I'm resistant to the main class of pregnancy safe antibiotics. Leave it to me to be difficult! They tried increasing my dose, and that seems to be helping, and my fever finally broke. I've been doing these hcg booster shots . . . and go figure, I had an allergic reaction to them. I did my last one today, and I knew the other injection sites were swollen and itchy, but I thought it was "normal." Well, today I started itching all over, and my chest got tight, so I'm now on prednisone, too, to deal with the allergic reaction AND the asthma. Oh, and did I mention my whole body hurts from all the coughing I've been doing? I swear, if I didn't cough these embies into oblivion, or drug them to death, I'll be stunned. Every time I cough, I have these images going through my head - my uterus contracting like a trash compactor and crushing the embies, or flinging them out my cervix like a sling shot. I've been pretty down about all the things that went wrong this cycle, from the meds, to the embies not growing like I expected, and #4 not making it to freeze, and then getting sick, and the meds, and the allergic reaction. It all makes it so hard to stay positive and believe there is any chance at all this is going to work. So, I'm trying to focus on planning IVF #2 . . . if I get a pleasant surprise, well, FANTASTIC! Hehehehe . . . bet you are sorry you asked how I feel! Beta is next Friday, so I have to just get through the next 9 days, and then I'll have my answer! Hopefully, this week will be better . . . although I doubt it. We have DH's entire family passing through on "spring break" this weekend - and DH and his brothers don't get along so well. I'm making a big dinner, and you should see what a mess my house is! Craziness! And since his family doesn't know what is going on with us ttc-wise, we have to "fertility-proof" the house - hide my meds that are in the fridge, make sure we empty all the pregnancy tests out of the trash cans, hide the booklets, instruction manuals, etc., and hide my syringe stash!