So Many Reasons To Be Excited

I found out today that IUI #4 will take place on Christmas Eve morning! We will also be doing TI on Christmas since the RE's office will be closed for the holiday. I'm really super excited and that alone is scaring me. Every one of our IUIs has fallen on some kinda of significant date, and now it's falling on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. How can you not have hope that this will be the one to work? How do you try to tell yourself to not get your hopes to high? And the worst part is knowing that if this one doesn't work out, it's going to be a really hard fall. But right now I'm not thinking about that, I'm enjoying the moment while it lasts and then we will deal with things when they come.

Otherwise we are pretty much ready for the holidays. All the gifts have been bought and the ones that needed to be mailed are on their way. The only real thing left to figure out is when we are going to BIL and SIL's house. It sounds like that will be in the afternoon since we might be eating an early dinner up there. Ahh the holidays...so stressful! lol

5 Days To Go...Let The Craziness Begin!

So today is officially 5 days until Christmas and the annual tradition of "Let's see how fast we can drive you crazy" has begun. BIL and SIL were just here and we were discussing the Christmas Eve/Christmas Day events timeline. It amazes me how many people it takes to plan a "simple" family gathering. Not only do we have to figure out when all the adults can be there, but we also have to figure out when all the kids will be present (BIL has a daughter from his first marriage that divides the day between two houses...been there...done that). Ahh the joy of the holidays! On a postive note: Our house looks awesome this year!
Hubby and BIL did a great job this year and we have gotten so many compliments by both the neighbors and just randome people driving by. One lady even told hubby, "For all of us who are too lazy, thank you very much!" LOL

On the IF front: We are gearing up for IUI #4 which will happen sometime this week. Hubby hopes it happens closer to Christmas so that we have to do TI (RE's is close Christmas Day) because he says that would be an awesome present. Boys. lol We went Saturday for monitoring, hubby went for the very first time. It was neat having him be there to see the u/s and what they are looking for and at. Since he's never been, he's also never seen my PCOS ovaries. The RE was so nice and took the time to point out what we were seeing when hubby asked where my ovary was after the RE mentioned it. The funniest thing was watching hubby's face as the RE started counting all the little cystic follies. Even after the RE explained that's what PCOS is, hubby says to me "We are so going to have multiples. Did you see all those things?!" lol Gotta love him!

IUI #3...GO!

I started my Follistim injections again tonight. I can't believe we are on number three already. It felt like it took forever to get started into the first IUI and I just can't believe we are already to number three! (Pause for screaming..just saw the New Moon/Volvo ad..ok back to blog) The other thing I can't believe...my weight! I know I heard people say they gained some due to the hormones, but HOLY CRAP! I really don't think it's all that much...yet...but it's still enough that I have started to notice. Gah! As if I don't have enough to stress about, now I get to add that to my plate. Joy!

Stupid BFN

So Monday I had my Beta drawn and the results were supposed to be sent "stat" I made sure to point this out to the lab tech and then went on my way, anxiously waiting for a phone call. And I waited...and waited....and waited...and waited! Finally at 3:24 I called the RE's office. Three attempts and 15 minutes later I found out that they had only received ONE of the three levels they were supposed to get...and it wasn't even my beta!!! The lady said she had put in for the lab to do the rest of the tests, I guess they still had my blood?? After getting off the phone with them I called over to the lab (it's in the hospital where I work) I talked to someone about what the HELL was going on?! She said she was going to look into it and also called my RE's office. Later she called back and said the results would be ready in about two hours. Fabulous! My RE's office closed 30 minutes ago!!!!!! However I did get a phone call around 5ish from the lady I had talked to there who said that she would call me first thing in the morning with the results. So now I'm back to waiting......finally couldn't take it anymore at 10:30 and called! The RE's office was short some people so that was why I hadn't heard anything (completely understandable) and someone would call me back. Got the call shortly after, and the results...BFN! Got my instructions to stop my progesterone supp.s and wait for AF to show up so that we can start IUI cycle #3. So now it's time to do some more waiting......

Rainy Saturday

I've been on Prometrium supp.s since the day after the second IUI and let me tell you...I am EXAUSTED! All week I have been looking forward to today so that I could just sleep in and recharge my batteries. Well I successfully completed that goal today by not getting up until amost 11:30. It was so nice not to have to be up early or have anywhere to be. The down side to getting up that late is that we have no motivation to really do anything. We had talked about maybe trying to get more painting done, but that didn't happen. Now I'm wondering when we are going to get ready and head out to dinner because I'm starting to get hungery. Tomorrow is my get together with a groupd of girls from the message board I'm on and I'm pretty excited about it. It was a lot of fun last time, and I know it will be again. Still trying to not think about my beta on Monday but, with it getting closer it's getting harder to push to the back of my mind.

Work Is Hell!

We have a new boss and of course people are acting really stupid. All the slackers are now trying to kiss major ass and act like they have always been the best employee ever. Even my co-worker is trying to act like he has always been the boss in the office, when the fact is, he has been enjoying the extra cash and not fulfilling any of the duites of the title. Hell at this point I manage it more than he does! It's so aggrivating!! Plus the stress is so not what I need right now...damn it! lol I'm less than four days from my beta test. Oddly enough I've managed to not think about it too much...well maybe just not as much as last time. I think it's because last time was the first time and it was all so exciting. I have had to catch myself and try not too get too over opptimistic. I hate that I can't even be excited about what might be happening. If I let myself get too hopeful and it's negative, that just leads to an even bigger crash back to reality. I am very much looking forward to a night out tomorrow with my Friday night dates, we haven't seen each other in weeks! I just hope that I don't poop out early, damn suppliments have me so wiped out.