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Phat, I can stalk you now :-)

Jace's, I'm so glad to hear you are going to jump right back on the band wagon! And again, I am so sorry you had to go through all this. Maybe your body will pick right back up and you will get another BFP :-)

Tara, fruit roll ups!!! LOL they do! I literally LOL'ed at the baby making cabinet! I finally cleaned mine out the other too. A lot had expired and some of it wasn't working for me so I trashed it. By not working I mean giving me crazy side affects!
The cake looks AMAZING, I seen it on FB and showed my hubby and we both agreed you should move to Texas! And cook and bake for us :-) I'm glad everything turned out so great. I bet you will be glad when you can start TTC! I dread having to take birth control if we have to move to IVF. I haven't taken birth control since High School. I hated it.

Astrid, I have 28-30 day cycles as well with a 14 day LP but on Femara I know I can have up to 16 day LPs so it sucks. Plays tricks on you. I always said unless I am a week late I am not testing. So far, I haven't!

@Late, holy cow! I just read your post and I bet you were having one hell of a day at the Dr. What a roller coaster ride! YAHHHHH for ovulation! Good luck on your TWW. So glad your insurance covered it. Our insurance covers ZERO fertility treatments and 100% of the fertility testing.. SUCKS! BCBS offers IVF coverage and we use UHC but own our own business and ours is "Small Group Coverage" and UHC only offers fertility treatments to groups with more than 50 or 150 employees enrolled, I can't recall what she told me. Either way our company will never employ that many people and I hate switching coverage after having it for so many years but BCBS may be a better option for our situation.

AFM, well 14DPO today so I should start no later than Saturday going by my other treated cycles. I do not feel pregnant, not at all so I expect to start. Still fighting a semi cold. It got better thank goodness before we left for Arizona Friday. Arizona was a BLAST!!! Did some shopping in Sedona, took a helicopter ride around the Grand Canyon, and ate wayyyyyyyyy to much fast food! Oh my goo9dness, I gained almost 8 pounds in 4 days!!!! That is why I do NOT do hotels! We usually rent houses when we travel so I can cook real food. Lol.
We started, well the floor people started demoing our floors today :-( and I am freaking out. I do not do well with out of order things and things I can't control. My house stays CLEAN, like really clean 24/7 and I left it this morning having so much anxiety that I dread going home! I just can't wait for it to be finished. We leave next Thursday for Colorado and I know they will not be finished with it by then and that makes me even more crazy. BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I haven't even thought about what to do if this IUI didn't work. Hubs is leaving it up to me, however my Dr doesn't do any IVF procedures (retrievals or transfers) the month of December and that is where our IVF would fall if I started it this cycle so we may do a couple more IUIs but I am not even sure if I want to or just go back to doing it naturally until December when they can start my birth control then do retrieval in January and transfer in February. So stressful. Why can't we be lucky like everyone else. The only positive from all these infertility bull crap is I have met some of the best friends on here! You ladies are great, I love y'all! It has also made me appreciate the whole process that much more and has definitely taught me patience which is something I lack tremendously. LOL

If I missed anyone I am sorry, it only lets me go back so far!

A helicopter ride around the grand canyon? !!!! That must've been amazing Mandy!! So glad you had a great trip to Arizona :) and if I could find you on Facebook I'd totally be stalking you too! Lol

I'd been getting o pains yesterday & today, if the d&c was cd1 then it would've been right on time.. but I didn't use any opks cuz I thought there's no way my body is o'ing yet! So I really hope I didn't miss it. We went to a car lot just to 'look' but I fell in love so we ended up bringing it home!!!! In really excited about it. I don't think I've ever owned a vehicle that coat over 500 so I drove like 45 MPH the whole way home. And sooo glad I did cuz this stupid idiot pulled put right in front of me & I had to slam on the breaks cuz there was a car to my left & I couldn't get over. I was SO pissed, talk about some road rage. If she'd made me wreck my new car before I even made it home from the lot I would've beat her black & blue!!!! I'm very thankful I was going slow cuz had I been going the speed limit I don't think I could've missed her. Stupid drivers kill me! I can't believe the amount of trust we put in these people just to be out ob the road with them!

Okay this is nasty & TMI but - I woke up around 7am with excruciating pains & was covered in blood.. ran to the bathroom & passed a lot of clots. What scared me was the size!! One was almost 8 inches long & bigger around than a hot dog weiner!!! Is that okay or normal? ?!

WOW! I'd give your dr a call just in case.

I agree, call the doctor, Jace's Mom. And good luck with the new car. I am glad you made it home ok!

Thank you Phat, Mandy, Jace's Mom, and Waiting for the outrage on my behalf. I am still barely able to breathe when I think about last weekend. Good grief.

Mandy, there is still hope! Crossing fingers for you. We did our floors in June. All our stuff is still in boxes jammed in the closets. I like the place better emptier! It was a mess for a couple of weeks, but it is worth it! I am glad you had a good time in Arizona.

The insurance sometimes makes no sense to me. I may not get approved with my new insurance. They may make me do 3 more IUIs before allowing IVF. I had Oxford/United before and my new one is GHI/BCBS. I know it is stressful to make these big decisions.

2Firsty - The digital test is so disheartening with the big no. Sigh. You're not out yet, right? Not Kansas, NY.

Astrid, thank you. And fingers crossed for you, too.

As for me, 5dpo and just waiting.

Oh my, I have missed a lot ladies and I am so sorry for that! I spent 4 weeks in the hospital, this pregnancy is trying to kill me though baby is thriving while momma is nearly dying.

I'm home and even allowed to work a bit so I'm hoping to catch up on what's been going on with all of you. I'm wishing you all luck and baby dust and health!

Soooo aggravated! Dh had been looking for a cheap work car, just something cheap on gas where he drives almost 3 hrs everyday for work. Found a buddy that was gonna help him put & let him make payments on a car he was selling that gets 40 miles to the gallon .. defense not easy on the eyes - but its a work car that'd be great on gas. He goes to get it & it broke down before he made it home. I know he wouldn't have have meant to sell us anything if he'd known, it just shows our kind of luck. He's getting a trailer now to pull it back over there. I just pray that he doesn't say 'oh well your problem now.' Don't think he would, but I wouldn't doubt it with our luck. Sucky day so far. This is his weekend off, which he hardly ever gets, and he's already been gone moat the day trying to get all this lined out. Just want him home to spend time with us & not to be stressing about anything the rest of today!!

*update - as he's pulling the car back over there on a trailer the brake lines busted ob my blazer!!!!!! I'm telling ya this is our luck every single day its something .. takes a month or 2 of bad luck to have 1 great day!
Sorry for b*tching just had to let that out lol

Jace's - that sucks about the clotting & the both cars. I feel like my whole last year and longer has gone exactly like that.

Mandy - send me a FB message!

Late - still pulling for you!!

Missdani - I'm so sorry to hear about your hospital stay and how you feel. I hope you continue to feel better.

I'm really starting to wonder how much is left in there. I haven't had much bleeding at all .. only spotting until a clot passes then its a little more but not much. Then I'll go 2 or 3 days with nothing then another clot then spot the rest of the day then a couple more days of nothing. Nothing near what I thought it should be.

Well Friday was CD1! My Dr's office didn't return my calls and yesterday was CD3 and here I have no Femara. In a way I am relieved. I am mentally and emotionally drained. I checked my flow chart online Friday and it shows my lining was only 4.6 and if that is correct I am making them credit me back the $550 I spent on the IUI cause my Dr will not do them if your lining is less than 7. He was not there to measure, the girls in the office did all that. I was so pissed. I'm still pissed. We want to move forward with IVF but now it's like we question do we stick to this doctor or do we meet a couple and get a feel for them? It is such a HUGE step and Friday I just cried and cried. I felt so defeated.

I still do..

My house is still ripped apart cause of the floors. We kicked the travertine guys out! They started filling it wrong so it is at a screeching halt. We have to meet the owner out there today, hopefully it doesn't have to all be busted out. They start the wood today. Hopefully that goes smoothly. We leave Thursday for Colorado. I decided with the Colorado trip and everything going on in the house I am not doing an IUI this month. I am way too stressed to even bother trying.

Jessica, that sucks about the cars! What did your friend end up saying about fixing it? Hopefully your bleeding stops soon, I can't imagine going through that. As much as my miscarriages killed me, I was glad they all happened very early on. They have all been around 6/7 weeks so I only had a couple days of heavy bleeding and it come naturally.

@MissDani, I sure hope you start feeling better! What are they saying is wrong? My sister is 13 weeks and she has been sick every single day almost all day everyday of this pregnancy.

Hi Phat!!!!

Tara, how are you lady?