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We're staying in Union Station so there should be enough to keep me occupied hopefully.
Brandy, I've been wondering after seeing your STL Cards shirts in your pic if you were from there! We won't be getting in til like midnight tonight. Yuck.
To consider an OPK positive it has to be as dark as the control line, but hopefully you're movin' in the right direction!
If you have never stayed at Union Station. Or if it has been a while, a lot of stores have moved out, but the hotel is gorgeous....I love the murals on the ceilings in the bar. My old office is actually tight accross the street in the Anthem building!! I work from home now though!
Dh and i are from the STL and the pic in my siggy is from an NLCS game this year when we were in the playoffs!
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A BIG thank you to Jaidynsmum for my awesome siggy!
Sorry for BFPing and running. The next morning I had to start on a cross country train trip, and still have limited connectivity. By the evening of 11 dpo (2 days ago) I got a totally there BFP. No squinting required. Then the next morning I FINALLY got a + FRER. This morning though I barely got a line on the FRER, but the Wondfo looks the same. I can't believe this is finally it! Please semd me sticky thoughts!
lots of sticky dust!!! and i hope we can see some more pictures!!! i love the BFP pictures... I usually stalk the "Am I Pregnant" bored to look at them Ahhhhh congrats again!!!
If you have never stayed at Union Station. Or if it has been a while, a lot of stores have moved out, but the hotel is gorgeous....I love the murals on the ceilings in the bar. My old office is actually tight accross the street in the Anthem building!! I work from home now though!
Dh and i are from the STL and the pic in my siggy is from an NLCS game this year when we were in the playoffs!
Thats sad that places have left but it happens. The hotel is really pretty though I haventventured very far out yet lol
Here's a little background info for those of you who haven't been here as long as others....
In August of '10, I found out the the fertilized egg that had implanted actually turned out to be a blighted ovum. (aka had stopped growing and wasn't viable). So during the appointment that this was confirmed, we scheduled a d&c for the next day. (I had the choice to let things "just happen" but I didn't think mentally I could handle that.) Well, that was on Thursday August 26. I of course took off Thursday and Friday from work and went back to work on Monday. I had almost stopped bleeding and thought I was healing well. Well early in the morning on the following Thursday, around 3am, I woke up to intense cramping and heavier bleeding. But I wasn't "filling more than a pad an hr" so it was thought to just be continued "recovery process." But in order to be able to work Thursday and Friday, I had to take some type of pain meds throughout the day(s). Well, come Saturday morning (September 4th), I was cramping so hard and the bleeding had gotten so bad that DH was feeding me pain meds (which didn't help) and was getting so worried. So I made a call to the on-call OB at the practice and was instructed to come in to the hospital's ER asap.....
Well, to make a long story short, I still had "products of conception" inside me and my body was trying hard to get rid of it but it wasn't moving. Thus the second, somewhat emergent, d&c which was done by the on-call OB at that practice. I had scheduled a f/u with that Dr.... but my "regular" Dr changed my appt to with him instead. (I think that was with reason, Price does, too. He wanted to kinda "make ammends" I guess?)
Come to find out, I was only the 5th case in his 15 years of practice where something like this had happened. (A repeat d&c having to be done) He also said that since I was so early on (9 wks, growth had stopped at about 6 wks), it is sometimes hard to "get everything." (which in hind-sight is understandable I guess) He gave numerous appologies for what we had to go through and yada yada yada...
I couldn't help it though, I was bitter. I guess I was bitter about the situation as a whole and I was looking at a way to place blame. So I placed the blame on him. (He didn't cause me to have a blighted ovum though. Plain fact. He was just easy to blame at that point.) After that follow-up I just decided I didn't want to go back to him. So I switched Dr.s, to one of the ones at the hospital DH is employeed at....
NOW, I haven't seen that (new) Dr since last February when I had my yearly done. I tried to call her office at least 4 times last week, no that was 4 times in one day... I probably at least tried to call her 5-7x to try to get some provera or something that would help me to start af and get back on track. BUT, the farthest I ever got was a nurse taking down my info and/or request and well never did get a reply. Even after trying to call several times, never got any results...
So I bit the bullet, DH and I talked about it extensively, and I made an appointment to see the Dr that I hadn't seen since that f/u appt almost a year and a half ago. Truth is, he is a good Dr. I'm just one of 5 freak cases that had a "difficulity." He's always been pro-active for me and he has been the Dr of several other women I know who love him. (He is the Dr that delivered my nephew and performed the "Assure" procedure on my Sister, she loves him!)
So for those of you who have stuck with me through this long story, that is why me going back to this Dr is a big deal for me. Mostly mentally, but anyway... there's my story! lol
First off YAY for a bfp on our board I am so excited!!!! And once you get done traveling we expect BFP pictures!!
2nd Tasha is sounds like the new dr wasn't going to work out and you made a good decision to go back to the original. A friend of mine had a blighted ovum at 6 weeks as well and she ended up with 2 d&c's too. While i know nothing about the d and c process I wonder if some of the complications could be attributed to us medically miscarrying, for obvious reasons,and then our body still wanting to go through the process as it knows how? Not sure if that seems realistic or not but i am thrilled you are getting back into a Dr!
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A BIG thank you to Jaidynsmum for my awesome siggy!
and to Natasha- I am so happy for you to be brave enough to go back to a doctor who you didn't want to see again. I hope he does great things for you!
an update on me post ovarian drilling... It is now 9 days post op. I haven't been taking any meds for a while now. The stitches are healing up quite well (self dissolving ones) and now I am getting cramping in my stomach.. probably my ovaries recovering. I was able to comfortably BD a week after surgery... and honestly, I don't know if it was the surgery or what not changing up my hormones but I've been wanting to BD 24-7. I my DH isn't complaining, though. So far, I am glad I did it. It isn't horrible to deal with.
Natasha it is so nice to learn more about you! I have been on this board for a while but wasn't always active and don't know as much about everyone as I'd like to. I am so happy you are pushing through (what seems as) a bit of an uncomfortable situation and going for it! I bet your decision to see your old DR will be a great one! I wish you all the best! Hopefully you can get things rolling more to get that BFP! <3
Thanks ladies, I really hope this decision is for the best!
Melissa- I'm so glad your recovery process is going so well! And maybe its the fact that your body has been able to release some of that testosterone that is causing you to want to bd so much?!? Who knows?? But I'm like you, I'd just roll with it!
What's everyone up to this evening?? I'm doing some paperwork before the work week starts again tomorrow.... I always dread Mondays, plus DH leaves Thursday and will be gone for a week so that will be wierd. We haven't spent that long apart since we were married! But he will be at school, and him doing this training will allow him to start his clinicals, which means he's one step closer to graduating!!
Plus, Saturday, I'm having some girls over Saturday afternoon for a 31 party which should be fun!
Ok ladies this is a big week and I need all of you to keep DH and I in your thoughts and prayers..here's why--
1) I am due to O this week. DH is onboard and started taking his "special" vitamins today (GNC Performance and Vitality) and while I know it would be extremely quick for them to start working it gives me hope. I think that hope spilled over into my dreams last night because I dreamed I got a and also that it was a baby girl. I would love love love to make that dream come true this month (well the bfp part).
2) We dropped the price on our house 2 weeks ago tomorrow (we are selling to build a new house, already have the land reserved and builder ready to go), I spent Friday night cleaning---really really cleaning. Low and behold Saturday morning we found out that we were having not one but two showings on Saturday. While the 2nd couple was here they called my realtor to ask for more information on the property. We found out today that the couple lost everything in a fire recently and meet with their insurance agent tomorrow to finalize their claim/get their check. They told their realtor they are deciding between our house and another house, but we should know something this week. We are trying really really hard not to get our hopes up but it would just be so perfect for them to write a contract this week with it being Valentine's day (We live on Valentine St. ).
Hence I feel like everything might be falling into place. So please, please, please keep us in your thoughts and prayers and send good juju that all goes well this week!
FX for you for sure ... Good Luck with the house sale and DH's "special" vitamins Maybe Cupid will be really super duper nice and send you some sticky bean dust so that everything falls in place at once for you
Same to you Aubrey ... I'm hoping today is my O day ... I've been getting brighter and brighter OPKs the last 2 days ... I will be sooooo excited if that's the case. Really hoping its today or tomorrow I even had some REALLY odd cramping today something I have NEVER had before (unsure if its related or not)
Wowza I'm behind! We had a great weekend away. It was so nice to just be the 2 of us.
Tot- I hate reliving your story with you. I remember so well all that you went through. Hard to realize that was so long ago now :-/ I know that OB must be hard for you but I for one can still remember the TTC process and you were very happy with him at the time. I'd honestly really like to see you on Femara again since that GOT you your BFP in the first place.
Melissa-I'm glad you're feelin' frisky! Hopefully you get that first O and get that BFP!
Brandy-GL on the house AND this cycle!
Today will be day 3 of Clomid for me. So far I'm still sleeping at night but I can't remember when that started happening last cycle. Maybe my S/E will be minimal this cycle? lol
