Happy Halloween

My girl friend had her baby so it turns out I will be in town. I don't have any firm plans yet, but the thought of a low key evening at home is sounding more appealing by the minute! I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Where did a week go?

Time is flying right now it seems!! Its been a whole week since my last post. I should finish my BCPs on friday, which means I should hopefully be on CD1 Saturday or Sunday. Unless of course the 2+ weeks of spotting has drained my ute of all its blood. I am SOOO hoping that we are able to get back to TTC this next cycle and that the cyst is gone. Only time will tell I guess. This little interlude has confirmed in my mind that I never want to voluntarily go on hormonal BCPs again.

The work stuff has taken an interesting twist, but based on conversations today with my boss it seems like I will probably end up managing the billion dollar contract rather than the other team. At this point I'm ok with either option, I just want them to make a frickin decision so the rumor mill at work will simmer down.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and is excited about Halloween! I am supposed to be visiting with a girl friend in Atlanta this weekend, but as she is 39 weeks pregnant today and having lots of contractions, I am hoping her little girl will be arriving this week!! (in which case I won't be going obviously)

Good News

Got a call from the RE's office today while I was in my training; luckily, I was able to grab it and step outside. The good news is that all the follow-up B/W came back normal. So who knows why the Dhea Sulfate was elevated? But the good news is we are ok to proceed next cycle assuming the cyst shrinks. 10 more days of BCP to go!!

I am pretty done with all the waiting crap. The BCPs are making me feel really bloated which is annoying. To be honest, I am feeling a little depressed about how fat I feel right now. I mean seriously,  I am gross. I have been going to jazzercise 3 days a week, but I still feel so fat and bloated. I hope that when I get off the BCPs I deflate. In the mean time I am going to continue to try to eat good (which I haven't been doing great at) and exercise.

Wow...

...9 years ago today my Husband and I went out on our first date. I can't believe its been so long!!

In other news there has been a bunch going on in my world!! 1st and foremost, I awarded a $100M contract on Friday that I have been working on for MONTHS!! I am super super excited to be done with it and hope to have a little calm at the office now that it has been awarded. Speaking of work, I have been presented with two very interesting promotion opportunities at work. The first is becoming a team leader in one of the other branches (so I won't be supervising my current peers). The nice thing about this option is that I stay working in my same location, and get to move back into a management role which I haven't been in since my last agency. The negative of this opportunity is that this branch has a large amount of seriously tedious work. The work they do is generally not high profile, and can be extremely time consuming. But the people I would be managing for the most part are great, and I think I would be able to make a positive change in their current environment. There is also a large need for training, which is something I love to do.

The other option is being in charge of a very special and high profile contract ($1B). The benefits of this option is obviously the high profile nature of it. If it succeeds, it would be a HUGE career booster. Its a different type of contract that we usually do which means professionally it will be really challenging. I was signed up by my boss to attend a 1 week training this week about this type of contract so once I learn a little more about it I will have a better feel for what it would entail. The downfalls of this opportunity is that I'd have to be on-site in a work trailer at the project location which is literally in the boondocks. I'd be the only one from my office assigned to the contract, which means I would be fairly isolated; and most importantly, I wouldn't have easy access to the wonderful subsidized daycare my work provides (which I fully intend to use should I finally get KTFU). It would still be available to me but because of where I live and where the project is located it wouldn't make sense to use it. The head of my office wants a decision by Wednesday. So we will see. I can't really decide.

In TTC news, I am dutifully taking my BCPs but have been spotting for about a week now which is really odd for me. I never usually spot between my periods. I will ask my Drs office about it when they call with the results of my B/W which I hope they will do tommorow!! (or I will be calling them!)

Hope everyone had a GREAT weekend!

Happy Anniversary!

3 years ago today my husband and I were married. I can honestly say I love him more today than I did that day. He's such a wonderful man and I am blessed to have him in my life.

Tonight we are celebrating by trying a new yummy restaurant. It should be a great evening! Below are a few of my favorite pictures of us from our wedding day!

Houston, We *May* have a problem

I got a message from the RE friday afternoon requesting that I call them back. Unfortunately, I got it after the office had closed for the day but I was able to reach them during their Saturday hours. My Dhea Sulfate was high (434) on my CD 3 blood work, so they requested that I come in for some follow up blood work this morning.

Dr. Google hasn't yielded much except, "Elevated levels of DHEAS may indicate an adrenocortical tumor, adrenal cancer, or adrenal hyperplasia. Increased levels of DHEAS are not diagnostic of a specific condition; they usually indicate the need for further testing to pinpoint the cause of the hormone imbalance." So we'll see. Results should be back in a week.

I have today off work for Columbus Day, so I am looking forward to a little shopping with a girl friend. After we find her some shoes for a BM's dress, we are planning on doing a little lunch and then seeing Capitalism: A Love Story. Should be a fun day!! Hope everyone had a great weekend!!

RE appt done

So I had my first RE appointment. It went really well, until the very end (more on that in a moment).

My husband and I arrived on time, and were taken back in a matter of minutes. They did weight and height on me, and took our picture for the file. We were then lead into an office, and we went over our medical history with the nurse (who is actually a patient of my mothers so was super excited to have us in the office). She was really sweet, and once she finished reviewing everything, she left us there to wait for Dr. D. He was doing an IVF ER so he ended up running really late (like almost an hour). DH started to get a little agitated, but luckily the Dr. came in right in time.

He went over our medical records and basically said that as far as he can tell everything looks fine. He said as of now we are technically "unexplained". He was very happy that I am on CD3 because we could actually use this cycle. He said he wanted to put me on 50mg of Clomid this cycle and try au natural. He was going to draw blood today, do an U/S and then have me come in again in 10 days for monitoring to see how many eggs had developed. Both DH and I were excited and off we went to the U/S room.

I got ready, and Dr. D and U/S tech came in to do my baseline U/S. My uterus looked good, left ovary looked great and then the show stopper came into focus. I have another hemorrhagic cyst on my right ovary. So now we can't do anything this cycle. He put me on BCPs for the cycle to hopefully help shrink/heal the cyst. I never got my follow up U/S from the one in April so there is the chance its the same one and just didn't heal, or there is a chance that its a new one. He is interested to know the results of my blood work are and asked me to call my hematologist to get them. He thinks maybe there is something that is going on that makes me prone to hemorrhagic cyst. So we'll see. The plan as of now is to do BCPs for 24 days (ending on Fri Oct 30th), then go in for baseline U/S and B/W on CD 3 of my next cycle. So I'm out for a cycle, but hopefully the cyst will clear itself up and we will be able to move forward next cycle. They did go ahead and draw blood today to check my CD3 hormone levels since it'd never been done before.

I'm kinda bummed. But on the bright side I really liked Dr. D and his staff, and look forward to working with him next cycle.

CD1 - Cycle 16

Blah.

I'm looking forward to my RE appointment on Wednesday.

Its October!

Spurred by a fellow blogger's recent post,  I realized that October is usually a really good month for me too!!

On a personal level, My husband and I met on Oct 18, 2000 as students at the University of Kentucky. We got married 6 years later on October 14, 2006. And in October 2007 we bought our first house together! So for us October has always been a really great month.

Professionally, October 1 signals the start of a new Fiscal Year in the government which means I usually have a few weeks of down time from the normal craziness of my job.

This October, I am really hoping we get our long awaited BFP, but if not we will be starting with the RE on Oct 7th which is definitely something to look forward to! And to start the month off right, tomorrow DH and I will be headed to the beach with his family. Its a short trip because I have to be back in time for work & school on Tuesday. But a long weekend at the beach is just what the doctor ordered!