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Life is Good

Well, as always, I’m impressed as anything with BabyBeat.com’s customer service.  Placed my order for a rent-a-doppler yesterday morning, and by yesterday noon had received a shipping notification from UPS. I’m hoping it will arrive before the weekend so that I can play with it, without having to hurry up and go to work/go to [...]

No news

In this case, I am assuming it’s good news.  My doctor was going to call if anything changed today, so I’m going to assume that all 4 little proto-sprogs are still alive. First PIO shot tonight, and I started the pessaries last night.  Blech.  However, today also began my “pineapple for breakfast” week, so that’s [...]

Thinking out loud

Still waiting to start to miscarry. Still waiting. Not that I should really be looking forward to misery and blood, but I guess I’m really believing that this one is over, and I need to start looking forward to the next attempt. I’m drinking a glass of hard cider, even as I type. Yum. I’m [...]

Oh boy.

So yesterday was the first day I wasn’t on prednisone, and I nearly didn’t make it home. Started getting light-headed on the subway which, if you’ve never feared fainting on NYC’s subways at rush hour, is a treat not to be missed. Nothing like fearing for your life if you pass out instead of just [...]

Ah, now I see…

…why Menopur is the preferred FSH drug.   Or at least so I assume.  Unlike all my other injection sites, the Repronex one from 16 hours ago is still tender – like a deep muscle bruise.  This is going to get uncomfortable very quickly, since I only have so much room to inject, and 4 shots [...]