I'm impatient, yes I am.

Terminology:

AF= Aunt Flo or my period
TTC=Trying to Conceive
CD=Cycle Day; the first day of your period is CD1 and so on and so forth until AF arrives again
BFP=Big Fat Positive. This is what we are working towards. A positive pregnancy test
BFN=Big Fat Negative. What we don't want and what I and most women in my situation dread seeing each month.
BD=Baby dancing or in layman's terms-SEX!
DTD=Do the deed, see above
POAS=Pee on a Stick. What you do to get that BFP or BFN(NONONONONO)
O=Ovulation or Oing, O'd etc
PG=pregnant or pregnancy
Prog=progesterone
SA=sperm analysis

That should get us started.


We began our first round of Clomid(fertility drug) earlier this month which means I was highly irritable from January 7-11. We are on a 5 day cycle of 50mg. Jason did survive with his head intact. I also experienced brief hot flashes which for the chick that is perpetually cold-MOI-I was in heaven. There was actually a day when Jason built a fire in our family room and I walked in and had to leave immediately because it was too damn hot. This is unusual for me. About the only time I get hot in the winter is around 2-3am in the morning when I have to turn our heating blanket off. I grumble, half-asleep to Jason that I'm hot and in the process throw the comforter, blanket and sheet on his side. In response, he reaches over or stumbles out of bed to turn on the ceiling fan. He never remembers doing this when he wakes up later.

Anyway, today is CD21 for me. My doctor likes to do CD21 bloodwork when a patient is taking Clomid to test her progesterone levels. My test last cycle was a whopping 1.9. This is bad people. Unfortunately, I just O'd yesterday or possibly Monday as I'm waiting for my 3 high temps in a row. Yes, some of this may go over your head. Don't worry about it. If you have never obsessed about trying to conceive consider yourself lucky. Just wish us lots of baby dust and pray that we get a BFP next month! Once the results are in I'll talk to my doctor and determine if I need to take prog. supplements. Low progesterone may have been the culprit of my miscarriage this past June.

So back to the title about my inability to be patient. My appointment this morning was at 8:45am. I arrived 15 minutes early. I'm told to sit and they will call the lab. My doctor actually has a mini-lab in her office. 15 minutes go by. 20 minutes. Within 20 minutes I've seen 6 women called back for their appointments who arrived after me. I'm getting antsy and pissed off. At 30 minutes I'm imagining myself as a cartoon character with the redness moving up from the neck to the top of the head before said head blows up or steam rolls out the ears. I watch the pregnant woman across from me sip her lovely orange blended whatever for the glucose test. Anyhoo, at 35 minutes I check my phone again and decide to take action. I ask the receptionist how much longer because I have a meeting at work(no lie, I really did) to attend. I truly think either the receptionist or the lab forgot about me sitting out there in the pregnant woman's waiting room.

No sooner does my butt hit the chair they are calling my name and telling me to walk on back into the holyland. The lab! About freakin' time! As I sit in the chair and watch the phlebotomist prep I think, "Why was I so anxious to get here and get stuck with a needle?" Then I remember, "Oh yeah, because we want a baby." The whole process takes 2 minutes. She was a little rough and the prick of the needle stung a bit but I'm a big girl. My husband on the other hand, major wimp when it comes to needles. Can you imagine him in the delivery room when they bring out the needle for the epidural? HA!

So now I anxiously await the results and hope for good news.