Sock exchange for all you wonderful bloggers

There has been too much sadness in the blogging world lately.  My heart aches for so many, those who have had failed cycles, miscarriages, family illnesses… It can be too much for many of us to handle. Here is what I propose.  Let’s come together and do a little card/sock…

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Estrogen patches, Y U so unforgiving?

I know I have talked quite a bit on here about being your own advocate because no one in the clinic likes to help you out.  Or at least in my case.  Take, for instance, my estrogen patches.  I understand you are supposed to apply them to your stomach.  But…

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Fuck, I’m doing NaNoWriMo

Jesus, what have I done? It’s all Kasey’s fault. I blame her. And my medications. What else could have brought this on? NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month. You read that right. Where people race to write a goddamn novel in thirty days. Do you know how many pages 50,000 words…

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Let’s talk PIO

I looked up this IVF calculator today.  According to this, I am 3w3d pregnant.  How weird is that? With the retrieval and the transfer, I had every intention of discussing my PIO injections, but time got away from me.  So I have been wanting to post this for a while. …

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Bed rest for the second IVF

I had a lot of time to think while I was on bed rest.  Actually, my best friend and my parents were over all day Saturday, so there wasn’t much time to think which was good. But Friday I got home, and immediately texted my friend Emily and told her…

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