Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A funny thing happened at the gas station

Last night I HAD to stop at Tar-J to buy the Sex and The City movie. I also picked up some more pregnancy tests to have on hand for next cycle. Anyway, as I was cruising around I noticed the Mapco had gas....regular unleaded....AND there was no line! So I whipped into the station and filled my tank. As I'm standing at the pump I hear a faint, "Excuse me."

Me: "Yes?"
Him: "Hi, gay man here. I love your top. Where did you get it? How much was it?"
Me: "Thank you. I bought it at Target...oh months ago. I think I paid $15 or $16."
Him: Oh. Well it looks great on you, shows off all of your curves in all the right places and the color is fantastic!"
Me: Well thank you very much.

And off he goes. I had to smile to myself and it definitely gave me an ego boost. Compliments from gay men are awesome. It's been awhile since I've had one. I'm still smilling about it today. So thank you unknown gay guy for brightening my evening and now my morning too.

And yes I did watch the movie last night and yes I started crying at the opening credits. J had a friend over so I had to keep my sobbing to an approriate level. J watched the first 15 minutes or so and the last 15 minutes or so. I told him he missed all the good stuff so we'll have to watch it again...soon.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Beautiful floors

I mentioned last month that we decided at the spur of the moment to have our hardwood floors refinished. Our contractor did an amazing job! I love my floors. Our animals do as well. A few photos to give you an idea of the really bad state of our floors prior to refinishing. After much debating on a stain we decided to just clear coat the floors and bring out their natural beauty and color.

























Infertility Update

Our appointment with Dr. Hill at Nashville Fertility Center was this past Tuesday. It went well. He's very nice, soft-spoken and he seems very determined. We went through our history and he discussed everything with both J and I. I had another vaginal ultrasound. I have a cyst...most likely from the Clomid and of course that polyp is still there. Dr. Hill examined me. Poor J-I think he was traumatized. He sat in the examination room with me the whole time so he saw my uterus and ovaries on TV.

We sat back down with Dr. Hill after my exam to discuss what the tech found on the u/s. I have either a uterine septum(I think this is the proper terminology) or something else which I have completely forgot the term but it is a deformity of my uterus or a uterine anomaly. That may pose a problem. Dr. Hill confirmed the cyst and the polyp. On CD1 I have to call to schedule another HSG. Dr. Hill mentioned doing a hysteroscopy and laproscopy. He wants to move quickly on these procedures so we can move forward and he can see what we are dealing with, especially in regards to my uterus. I spoke to him about Clomid and he wants to try a Clomid challenge which will involve a lot more monitoring than I just had or had in the past. It will also involve an HCG trigger and an IUI. Unfortunately, Sally did not send my records over in time so things may change a bit once he sees those results.

J and I went ahead and had the blood test to determine if we are CF(cystic fibrosis) carriers. J kind of balked at this but I pushed him to say yes. The man hates needles with a passion. I just reminded him that one little prick is nothing compared to how many times I've been poked and prodded thus far and what is still to come.

I told Dr. Hill about not being told I was not a good candidate for IVF and he said he doesn't think that is the case but he needs to review my records from Sally first. However he did say we may be closer to IVF due to my age. He doesn't want to wait and he said he will do everything in his power to help us and that he does not give up easily.It was a pretty good visit so I'm happy. I think J is scared of all of this. We didn't really have a chance to talk about it afterwards as he had to get back to the office.