Quick Update

Please forgive the bullets, things have been really busy around here lately and I have less time than usual. I can’t even put together one of my poorly organized rants posts.

• No insem for R this month. Maybe next month.
• I’m interviewing for jobs in NC and PA.
• I loved teaching and if we stay in PA, may get my sec ed certification in chemistry. If we move to NC, I don’t need it to get a job.
• We may be trying with my body in the next few months, we just need to get a donor which may be easier said than done. R is going to talk to her brother to see if he will. We also have a few friends that we’ve talked to about donating before. If none of them work out, spεrmcicles here we come! R would really prefer it if her brother were our donor. I completely understand the feeling that the non-birth mom feel some genetic/biological connection to the child.
• I am overweight, have PCOS and an irregular cycle so I know it won’t be easy, but I have to at least try or I’ll wonder for the rest of my life if I was able to get pregnant. Any advice from those with PCOS that have gotten pregnant without IVF? I’m currently on Pr0vera 14 days a month and will add Cl0mid when we start trying. I just started temping again. R and I temped together at first because she complained about getting up early just to take her temp. I abandoned it after a while though.
• If we start trying with my body we won’t be abandoning R’s body, just adding one more each month to try and increase the odds. If one of us gets kno.cked up, we’ll stop. No need to have both of us pregnant at the same time. Who would tie our shoes?
• I’ll be visiting family for the next week so no internet access.

Have I mentioned lately that I’m a dork?

So I went to this site with the intention of checking out the rating on my blog. It’s PG-13 for those of you that would care about that sort of thing. I ran across the 8th grade science quiz and it made me think of the stupid show (is it even still on?) where contestants compete against 5th graders. I only watched it a few times but was amazed that people actually didn’t know things. Where did they find these people? But I digress…back to the quiz, I’m a dork and didn’t even get a question wrong.

Free Online Dating

Brutus hasn’t had a seizure since Saturday. We still don’t know if we’re inseminating this month. AF was expected yesterday and is late again. Maybe it will be late enough to throw R’s cycles off 1 week so we can insem in July.
We’re going to Pittsburgh this weekend to celebrate our 9 year anniversary (the 10th is our anniversary). Pittsburgh may seem like a strange place to celebrate, but it’s where we were both living when we met.
Vee, I’ll get a post up about the weak ovulation thing soon. With the trip this weekend and the fact that next week is the last week of my teaching position things will be a bit crazy but I’ll try to compile all the info we’ve been given soon.

Another F*cking Cycle on the Sidelines

AF is expected today or tomorrow. We should be gearing up for another TTC cycle, but we’re probably taking this month off. R can’t get off work for the weekend she’s supposed to ovulate. I’m really pissed about this most of all. When we started TTC a year ago this month R went through and requested off around her ovulation days for the entire year. We never thought it would take that long (oh how naive we were in the beginning). I think R may have been able to get pregnant that fast if we were able to be more consistent with our trying but scheduling with our donor was a real bitch. So anyways, a few months ago R’s cycles got all out of whack. The weekends she had requested off no longer fit her cycle. She went in to change things for this cycle. Her boss doesn’t pay attention to anything. She’s a flighty twit (no seriously, she forgot that 4th of July was a holiday and R is working alone all day) and gave R off this coming weekend instead the following weekend when she will actually be ovulating. The boss, we’ll call her FT, refuses to change the schedule. FT already has plans to go away for our ovulation weekend. She doesn’t really go on vacation. She just goes to Pe.nn State, gets really drunk, has lots of sex, and then comes back to work hung over and complaining that she thinks she might be pregnant. How can you stress about an unwanted pregnancy and talk about how it’s going to ruin your life in front of a woman who is TTC? Really this woman doesn’t think. Our donor may be able to come visit, but things don’t look good for that either. He’s recently started a new job (way to go for him! he got a full time job within weeks of graduation) and doesn’t know if he can get off of work to visit for the weekend. I’m pissed, sad, worried that this will never work out, the list could go on and on.

The doc wants to up the Cl0mid dosage because the blood work still shows what he calls “weak ovulation.” She’s ovulating, but apparently just barely is what I’ve gathered from talking to his nurse on the phone. We’ll know in the next few days if she’s going to take the meds this month or not. No use wasting the drugs if we won’t have any swimmers this month. There will certainly be more blood work and I’m thinking of asking for some more invasive monitoring like ultrasound on top of the blood work.

We need to be more aggressive. R may be changing jobs and we don’t know if the new job will have insurance that covers fertility treatments. We are hoping we can get her knocked up before she loses the really crappy insurance that, for some reason, actually covers fertility treatments. It won’t cover everything since R isn’t married to our donor (chalk another one up for lesbian discrimination) but it does cover doctor appointments and meds so we’re not complaining (too loudly).

I had a dream Saturday night that I was pregnant. I woke up crying…