Nervous or Anxious????

I am not sure what the correct term is for the way that I am feeling right now, is it nervous or anxious??. We just scheduled our final IVF appointment. It is for the ultrasound with "mock" transfer and to get the information on our treatment protocol. I can not express in words how much we want this to work and hope that God's will and our "wants" are the same.

No Furniture!!!!!!

I went for the diagnostic hysteroscopy yesterday. The procedure was more intense than I had thought it was going to be. I originally thought that it would be done in the exam room, BUT NO it was actually in the OR. It is the same room that I was in for the HSG, egg retrieval and embryo transfer last time. I had to put the sterile head cover and feet covers on. Dr. Jaffe came in and was trying to convince me how awesome it is that we were going to be able to look at my uterus. The more I think about it now I realize the "awesomeness" of this whole procedure. There was some pain that Dr. Jaffe called "pressure", it felt like a bunch of needles being stuck into me. The pain was worth it. The scope had a camera on the end of it and there was a TV for me and also for Garrett (who was in the waiting room) to see what was going on. I saw the inside of my uterus. AWESOME!! But even better than that was that we did not see anything inside my uterus, or as Dr. Jaffe put it "NO FURNITURE"!!!! Yeah!!!! She said it was an empty room waiting for someone to occupy it. They also did a biopsy to check for some kind of endometrial something ( I can't remember the term she used-but something they could treat with antibiotics). We will have to wait a couple of days for that result and then we should be able to move on. WOO!!!HOO!!!! NO FURNITURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IVF

Here is some info about our ivf journey. I went for blood work on Monday (5/5/08) and they did not get enough blood to do all of the tests that they needed to do. Luckily, they did get enough to do the day 2 or 3 tests that were needed. I received the results yesterday and everything looks good so far, estrogen level =110 (good), FSH=7.2 (good-needs to be under 10), LH=4.39 (good-needs to be under 11). I went to Quest for the rest of the blood work today. The technician that took my blood was wonderful. I did not even feel the needle. I thanked her for being so gentle. Tomorrow is the next step. I am scheduled for a hysteroscopy at 10:30 am. It will allow Dr. Jaffe to look inside my uterus and make sure that everything looks good.

Our boys

How can we have a blog and not talk about our dogs??? Call this post "The Dog Blog."

Chief (left) and Luke (right) are our "boys." We love them to death and look forward to seeing them every day.

First, let's talk about Chief. There's so much to say about him. Chief is a very sly dog; he's very smart and knows how to get the best of us. I've even seen him open the porch screen door by jumping up and pressing the handle with his paw (probably an accident, but it worked!). One of his favorite things to do is sleep, but he probably loves eating just as much. He gets a little crazy sometimes, too.

Luke is the baby of the family. We adopted him two years ago from the pound in St. Cloud. We love the little guy. His original name was Sniper--who would name a dog Sniper? We hated the name, so naturally we changed it.

More than anything, Luke loves tennis balls. He will do anything for a tennis ball, and it's rare to see him without one in the immediate vicinity. Try taking his tennis ball away from him and see what happens!

We love our dogs.

Next week: our cats!

I have OPTIMISM!!!!

Kinda sounds like a disease of the eye. We had an appointment with Dr. Jaffe today and usually when she does a sonogram she does not like what she is seeing. Today she said that my ovary looked nice and she did not see anything that she was concerned about. So on the ride home from the appointment I said to Garrett " I have optimism" and he thought that I was having trouble seeing!!! We are so excited!!!!!

Hair today---gone tomorrow

As much as I love my husband's hair----he hates it. He has been saying for weeks now that he wanted to shave off his hair. So last night he yells from the bedroom that he is going to shave it off. I am against it, but I want him to be happy. So I walk into the bathroom about 3 minutes later to find a sink full of beautiful hair and a shiny bald head. He is so happy and that makes me happy. Plus, it is only hair and it will grow back. Won't it????????

First Post

This is the first blog that we've done together! Right now we're at FCC on my (Garrett's) work computer. Yeah, this is how I work.

Our purpose in creating this blog is to keep people informed about the things that are going on in our lives. Between work, school, pets, family, etc... we keep pretty busy! We want to share our lives with you as you share yours with us!