My latest and greatest frustration has been dealing with health. Back in May of this year (2011) I had surgery to remove a pesky cyst on my left ovary that was making my ovary twice the size of my right one. I thought I was finished with those darn things and as I so rudely found out last Saturday I have MORE cysts. Last time I wasn't in any pain and to be honest I didn't know it was there until I had an ultrasound done.
My pain started last Saturday immediately when I woke up. I brushed it off and tried to ignore it. The next day the pain continued even when I tried to rest and ignore my housework to hopefully feel better. About 2 pm I decided I should visit my emergency room to have them help me figure it out. I spent probably a total amount of 1hour 30 minutes there. They ask me a million questions including when was your last period, when was your last bowel movement, when did the pain start, are you sure it isn't just gas. Needless to say they sent me home with a prescription of laxatives and pain medicine. They didn't believe me when I said there was something wrong. They were just like ehhh you are just constipated and have cramps here you go.
Two more days go by and let me just mention that it was just a holiday weekend so I had suffered through 4 days of pain. I went back to the emergency room. They give me a whole battery of questions again. After being there for almost 2 hours they finally said ohh lets do an an ultrasound for you but not a normal one we are going to stick you with a catheter to fill your bladder up with fluid. Lets just remind you that one of the million questions that I had to repeatedly answer "Does it burn or tingle when you pee?" Ummm it didn't but it does now thanks to your catheter.
After putting the catheter in I have to wait 15 minutes before they took me to get the ultrasound. The ultrasound took nearly a half an hour. They then wheeled my bed out into the radiology hallway and said they called the emergency room and someone would be down to pick me up shortly. A little more than a half hour later the radiologist receptionist finally says I am just going to take you back over there. Hooray I am finally going to get this catheter out!
I arrive back to my little room where I sit for another 20 minutes! My husband finally gets upset because I am laying in bed in pain and super uncomfortable and annoyed that the healthcare professionals keep forgetting about me he hunts down my nurse who tells him that no one told her that we were back from my test. My nurse comes right away and takes the catheter out thank goodness! 15 more minutes goes by and another tech comes to see me from the CT scan department. Here you go drink this you have 40 minutes to get this down. Oh great I have to drink this stuff that makes me want to vomit. My nurse had to give me a medicine that would make me less nauseated. 45 minutes later I am walked down to the CT scan room where they poke me 3 times trying to get a IV in my body so they can pump me full of the stuff that highlights my veins. The stuff made me nauseated again.
On Thursday September 15, 2011 I had my second laparoscopic surgery to see first what was wrong with me and second to remove any cysts that the doctor may find because I was having pain in my lower right quadrant. I had went to the emergency room twice. The first visit was a disaster because I had a male doctor (no offense to those male doctors out there) but he immediately jumped to the ohh its just cramps and constipation diagnosis. It was very frustrating for me because I know my body and I know when I am constipated and this was not one of those days. Another thing that was annoying is that he sent me home with a prescription for laxatives and pain medication and said that I am not high enough priority to have an ultrasound done. Thanks for caring doc. So far so good an it has been several months and no pain!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
After finishing my kitchen stools by replacing the fabric on them because my son decided to cut a hole in one of the seats, I started getting into my crafty mood again. I purchased 2 1/2 yards of fabric for the stools. Knowing I had bought a little too much I came up with a great idea that I would use the remaining fabric to make a window valance to match the stools and let a little more light in my dark kitchen.
Halloween time is coming around and I am feeling very crafty. So to sooth my crafty soul I am going to be making Halloween and fall season decorations for my house! Adding to it I am taking on the task of making my family Halloween costumes. I am so excited!
My husband found a link that inspired me to make one of my chihuahua's a costume for Halloween that would work perfectly with our costumes.
http://woonq.com/uploaded_images/fox_terrier-723534.jpg
P.S. This is my first time using a pattern! Good thing I have two months to practice and finish the items :-)
Halloween time is coming around and I am feeling very crafty. So to sooth my crafty soul I am going to be making Halloween and fall season decorations for my house! Adding to it I am taking on the task of making my family Halloween costumes. I am so excited!
My husband found a link that inspired me to make one of my chihuahua's a costume for Halloween that would work perfectly with our costumes.
http://woonq.com/uploaded_images/fox_terrier-723534.jpg
Monday, June 6, 2011
Baby bump coming soon we hope!
It has been a long time since I have given a proper update so here we go! In March I went to go see my gynecologist for my yearly exam. Everything with that exam went great. With my track record of irregular cycles my doctor ordered a few different panels of blood work, a biopsy of my uterine lining, and a vaginal ultrasound.
My blood work came back completely normal which makes PCOS out of the question. The biopsy, which in my opinion was very uncomfortable came back normal and I felt good to hear that I apparently ovulated on my own. The doctor suspects I am not ovulating very frequently though. The ultrasound results were very disappointing for me but at the same time it was a relief to hear that they finally found something wrong with me and all of this trouble wasn't just in my head. They found that my left ovary was almost twice the size of my right ovary and it had a "complex cyst" the size of my left ovary,which turned out to be a benign corpus luteum cyst. The cyst according to my doctor was not going to go away on it's own so I had to go under the knife.
The doctor ordered me to abstain or use condoms to avoid getting pregnant before the surgery, I did that and awaited the month long time period before my surgery was scheduled.
I went in to the hospital in the morning, checked myself in and after some waiting I headed back to the pre-op room with my husband, mom and sister in tow. After everything was all squared away I got wheeled back to the operating room. Soon I heard the anesthesiologist telling me she was going to be putting the knock out medicine in my IV since I had told her I HATE the smell of the gas. Besides being so cold my teeth were chattering that is all I remember. The doctor did one incision through my belly button. The surgery lasted an hour and a half. I remember waking up in the recovery room panicked because I feared that the doctor would have to take my ovary out because the cyst caused too much damage. After some reassurance from my nurse who showed me the picture of my pink insides where my ovary and cyst were I finally stopped crying and calmed down long enough to fall back asleep until they started nudging me to wake up so they could take me back to the post-op room to meet my family. I felt like my nursed were trying to literally shove me out of bed. I know my body and I know how it reacts to surgery. I was not ready to get out of bed. They demanded that I get out of bed to try to urinate so I could go home. I felt nauseous and just needed to lie down. I finally appeased them and was able to painfully urinate and collapse back into the wheel chair. At this point the pain from the surgery was terrible! I felt every bump, every turn and felt nauseous the whole way. I knew I wasn't ready to be moving around but after that long ride, which really wasn't more than seven minutes long but sure felt longer, all I wanted was to be home in my own bed.
Once I got to my bed and sat down I knew I was going to get sick. I made a quick grab for the closest bucket/bowl/cup I could find and it turned out to be a painters trim tray. Thank goodness I made it in there that would have been a terrible mess!
For the next several days I could hardly turn myself over in bed let alone get out of bed to use the bathroom. I spent my time sleeping since the pain medicine made me sleepy 20 minutes after taking it.The doctor told me that I should be able to resume "normal" activity after a day or so... ha yeah right I was so tired, I hurt constantly, I had no energy and felt nauseous just walking across my house.
As of right now I am almost three weeks post-op and I am still sore at the incision site. My doctor gave me the go-ahead one week and one day after surgery to go back to "normal" activities which includes intercourse. I am not very confident that we managed to get pregnant during that cycle but I took my 10mg once a day for ten days of Provera and it is going on three days after the last dose. Last time I took Provera I started my new cycle the next day after the last dose, which made my cycle only 25 days long. I have VERY sore breasts and I am very tired. I think I ovulate in my 20's of my cycle.
I am waiting for AF to show up so we can start our first Clomid cycle but I would be perfectly happy with a positive pregnancy test. I got a little excited and did a due date calculator and my due date would be February 14, 2012 Valentines Day! How exciting would that be?!?! I will be testing tomorrow and again on Sunday. Since my exhaustion is getting the better of me I do believe I have to stop this post for now. Have a good night everyone!
My blood work came back completely normal which makes PCOS out of the question. The biopsy, which in my opinion was very uncomfortable came back normal and I felt good to hear that I apparently ovulated on my own. The doctor suspects I am not ovulating very frequently though. The ultrasound results were very disappointing for me but at the same time it was a relief to hear that they finally found something wrong with me and all of this trouble wasn't just in my head. They found that my left ovary was almost twice the size of my right ovary and it had a "complex cyst" the size of my left ovary,which turned out to be a benign corpus luteum cyst. The cyst according to my doctor was not going to go away on it's own so I had to go under the knife.
The doctor ordered me to abstain or use condoms to avoid getting pregnant before the surgery, I did that and awaited the month long time period before my surgery was scheduled.
I went in to the hospital in the morning, checked myself in and after some waiting I headed back to the pre-op room with my husband, mom and sister in tow. After everything was all squared away I got wheeled back to the operating room. Soon I heard the anesthesiologist telling me she was going to be putting the knock out medicine in my IV since I had told her I HATE the smell of the gas. Besides being so cold my teeth were chattering that is all I remember. The doctor did one incision through my belly button. The surgery lasted an hour and a half. I remember waking up in the recovery room panicked because I feared that the doctor would have to take my ovary out because the cyst caused too much damage. After some reassurance from my nurse who showed me the picture of my pink insides where my ovary and cyst were I finally stopped crying and calmed down long enough to fall back asleep until they started nudging me to wake up so they could take me back to the post-op room to meet my family. I felt like my nursed were trying to literally shove me out of bed. I know my body and I know how it reacts to surgery. I was not ready to get out of bed. They demanded that I get out of bed to try to urinate so I could go home. I felt nauseous and just needed to lie down. I finally appeased them and was able to painfully urinate and collapse back into the wheel chair. At this point the pain from the surgery was terrible! I felt every bump, every turn and felt nauseous the whole way. I knew I wasn't ready to be moving around but after that long ride, which really wasn't more than seven minutes long but sure felt longer, all I wanted was to be home in my own bed.
Once I got to my bed and sat down I knew I was going to get sick. I made a quick grab for the closest bucket/bowl/cup I could find and it turned out to be a painters trim tray. Thank goodness I made it in there that would have been a terrible mess!
For the next several days I could hardly turn myself over in bed let alone get out of bed to use the bathroom. I spent my time sleeping since the pain medicine made me sleepy 20 minutes after taking it.The doctor told me that I should be able to resume "normal" activity after a day or so... ha yeah right I was so tired, I hurt constantly, I had no energy and felt nauseous just walking across my house.
As of right now I am almost three weeks post-op and I am still sore at the incision site. My doctor gave me the go-ahead one week and one day after surgery to go back to "normal" activities which includes intercourse. I am not very confident that we managed to get pregnant during that cycle but I took my 10mg once a day for ten days of Provera and it is going on three days after the last dose. Last time I took Provera I started my new cycle the next day after the last dose, which made my cycle only 25 days long. I have VERY sore breasts and I am very tired. I think I ovulate in my 20's of my cycle.
I am waiting for AF to show up so we can start our first Clomid cycle but I would be perfectly happy with a positive pregnancy test. I got a little excited and did a due date calculator and my due date would be February 14, 2012 Valentines Day! How exciting would that be?!?! I will be testing tomorrow and again on Sunday. Since my exhaustion is getting the better of me I do believe I have to stop this post for now. Have a good night everyone!
Monday, May 23, 2011
Awesome Review and Giveaway!
As I was cruising You Tube and Facebook today I found a link to yet another product review and giveaway. One thing about this product is it is something that I have been wanting to add to my baby to be stash for a long time! It is the ERGObaby carrier! Yes, you heard me a ERGObaby carrier giveaway! Read this blog http://videoproductreview.blogspot.com/ for more details or watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cve7q83e6CY&feature=autoshare for the details on how you could win your own ERGObaby carrier. How awesome is this ! Who doesn't like reviews and giveaways?
Sunday, February 27, 2011
To Do List- This-check, That-check Yay! we finished
I had quite the busy Friday, my husband and I ran all over town paying bills, shopping and setting up our son's 6th birthday party. It is always a challenge to get everything we need done on Fridays because it is the only day that we have to do things together without our son complaining that he is SOOOO bored! He is in all day kindergarten which gives my husband and I time to spend together to pay bills or do something special. We like to call them Date Days instead of Date Nights, unless Brenner spends the weekend with Grandma.
Friday my package came from babyhopes.com and I was super excited. I immediately took my first dose of Vitex and brewed my first cup of Fertilitea. As soon as I opened the bag I got this amazing peppermint smell! I waited the whole ten minutes for it to brew. I really liked the taste of this tea.
Kids say the cutest and funniest things! Today my son woke up and told us that he had a dream last night so we of course asked him "Well what did you dream about?" He replied " I dreamed that I peed in a cup!" (as my husband and I start to crack up) Brenner gets upset and yells " It's not funny I dreamed I peed in a cup and I was at Grandmas house!"
Our son's birthday party will be at a bowling alley and will have ten kids ages 5-6. I am very excited about the party!
Something new my husband and I are doing is changing our system for dealing with bills and appointments. I bought a budget book, a monthly planner, a filing case (not to be confused with a filing cabinet which is MUCH bigger), a stapler (ours broke), and a PAID stamp. My goal is to sit down and make a budget every couple of months editing them as we go along if we add or delete something. Every time we get a bill I will file it in the correct labeled file and when we get all of the bills that need to be paid at the beginning of the month and pay them then stamp each bill with "PAID" and file them again and the same thing with the middle and the end of the month. I will keep six months worth of bills in my filing case, then move them to the filing cabinet for another six months. After the six months I will be moving them to the shredder! It may seem like a lot of work and it probably will be but I want to be prepared for anything and make sure we don't forget to pay a bill again. I like the idea of paperless billing but having paper bills keeps me more organized and I don't have to waste the ink and paper from our personal printer.
A little note on how Angel is doing: she seems much happier. Her ears are not so red and I don't see her scratching her ears as much. I'm not sure if this is going to be related to the medicine or the new food but Angel's pads on her feet are much softer and smoother. Normally her feet pads and elbows are really rough.
Spring is coming up and I've got an urge to "Spring clean" normally I'm not much of a spring cleaner but after our move last year I have found I keep coming back to things from previous homes that are still lingering and we don't need them. So in the next few weeks I am going to be purging this house of clutter and clothes that no longer fit!
Friday my package came from babyhopes.com and I was super excited. I immediately took my first dose of Vitex and brewed my first cup of Fertilitea. As soon as I opened the bag I got this amazing peppermint smell! I waited the whole ten minutes for it to brew. I really liked the taste of this tea.
Kids say the cutest and funniest things! Today my son woke up and told us that he had a dream last night so we of course asked him "Well what did you dream about?" He replied " I dreamed that I peed in a cup!" (as my husband and I start to crack up) Brenner gets upset and yells " It's not funny I dreamed I peed in a cup and I was at Grandmas house!"
Our son's birthday party will be at a bowling alley and will have ten kids ages 5-6. I am very excited about the party!
Something new my husband and I are doing is changing our system for dealing with bills and appointments. I bought a budget book, a monthly planner, a filing case (not to be confused with a filing cabinet which is MUCH bigger), a stapler (ours broke), and a PAID stamp. My goal is to sit down and make a budget every couple of months editing them as we go along if we add or delete something. Every time we get a bill I will file it in the correct labeled file and when we get all of the bills that need to be paid at the beginning of the month and pay them then stamp each bill with "PAID" and file them again and the same thing with the middle and the end of the month. I will keep six months worth of bills in my filing case, then move them to the filing cabinet for another six months. After the six months I will be moving them to the shredder! It may seem like a lot of work and it probably will be but I want to be prepared for anything and make sure we don't forget to pay a bill again. I like the idea of paperless billing but having paper bills keeps me more organized and I don't have to waste the ink and paper from our personal printer.
A little note on how Angel is doing: she seems much happier. Her ears are not so red and I don't see her scratching her ears as much. I'm not sure if this is going to be related to the medicine or the new food but Angel's pads on her feet are much softer and smoother. Normally her feet pads and elbows are really rough.
Spring is coming up and I've got an urge to "Spring clean" normally I'm not much of a spring cleaner but after our move last year I have found I keep coming back to things from previous homes that are still lingering and we don't need them. So in the next few weeks I am going to be purging this house of clutter and clothes that no longer fit!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Our Journey to Having a Second Baby
Some couples accidentally get pregnant, some couples get pregnant on their first try, some couples like my husband and I just can't seem to succeed in the whole baby making process. For us part of the issue has been my hormones going all crazy sometimes not giving me a cycle for months at a time. Another part of it is we just can not seem to get our timing right. This being a new year my baby fever has come back with a vengeance so I sort of have a plan... Here goes our plan:
* Get back control over my body and my cycles
* Start on a fertility tea to help better my chances of becoming pregnant
* Start telling myself positive affirmations ( I am fertile, I can get pregnant, This will happen for us, healthy body, healthy baby)
* Start charting my cycles again so I know where I stand
* Implement "Sperm meets egg plan"
Let me just say that the TTC community on youtube is fabulous. There is such support and understanding from these ladies who live so far away but yet feel so close to your heart because we all have the same goal of getting pregnant and having the family that we always knew we wanted. I came across a few ladies on Youtube.com who talk about the "Sperm meets egg plan" and for those of you who don't know what that is basically the short version is you baby dance every other night starting cycle day 8. On cycle day 10 start your opk testing and when you get that positive baby dance that night and two more nights in a row skip one day.You can do a pregnancy test 15 days after your positive opk if you haven't had your period.If you haven't gotten your period yet baby dance every other day until cycle day 35 and if you still haven't gotten your period you may want to do another pregnancy test. So my goal is to try this sperm meets egg plan on a cycle and see what happens. For me this plan may not work because at this point I am not even sure if I am even ovulating, but I have to stay positive and visualize my egg being released and meeting up with the sperm and creating my precious cargo.
So here is a run down of my current cycle. Currently on cycle #1, cycle day 69. I thought this was going to be my happy cycle where everything went back to normal and I had 28 day cycles again, boy was I wrong! Cycle day 28 came and went and I got more and more frustrated. I got to cycle day 36 and stopped taking my temperature. I took multiple pregnancy tests which came up STARK white. I had a positive opk and we baby danced on the right days. I suppose this just isn't my cycle. Here I sit, willing my body to start my new cycle already. I am pretty sure at this point I will need a doctors assistance in order to get pregnant but at this point in time I have to stay positive and keep trying to get our timing right. We put in my order today for my fertility tea (loose leaf) and a tea ball as well as vitex capsules. I hope that we get pregnant soon! Baby Dust to everyone who is trying!
* Get back control over my body and my cycles
* Start on a fertility tea to help better my chances of becoming pregnant
* Start telling myself positive affirmations ( I am fertile, I can get pregnant, This will happen for us, healthy body, healthy baby)
* Start charting my cycles again so I know where I stand
* Implement "Sperm meets egg plan"
Let me just say that the TTC community on youtube is fabulous. There is such support and understanding from these ladies who live so far away but yet feel so close to your heart because we all have the same goal of getting pregnant and having the family that we always knew we wanted. I came across a few ladies on Youtube.com who talk about the "Sperm meets egg plan" and for those of you who don't know what that is basically the short version is you baby dance every other night starting cycle day 8. On cycle day 10 start your opk testing and when you get that positive baby dance that night and two more nights in a row skip one day.You can do a pregnancy test 15 days after your positive opk if you haven't had your period.If you haven't gotten your period yet baby dance every other day until cycle day 35 and if you still haven't gotten your period you may want to do another pregnancy test. So my goal is to try this sperm meets egg plan on a cycle and see what happens. For me this plan may not work because at this point I am not even sure if I am even ovulating, but I have to stay positive and visualize my egg being released and meeting up with the sperm and creating my precious cargo.
So here is a run down of my current cycle. Currently on cycle #1, cycle day 69. I thought this was going to be my happy cycle where everything went back to normal and I had 28 day cycles again, boy was I wrong! Cycle day 28 came and went and I got more and more frustrated. I got to cycle day 36 and stopped taking my temperature. I took multiple pregnancy tests which came up STARK white. I had a positive opk and we baby danced on the right days. I suppose this just isn't my cycle. Here I sit, willing my body to start my new cycle already. I am pretty sure at this point I will need a doctors assistance in order to get pregnant but at this point in time I have to stay positive and keep trying to get our timing right. We put in my order today for my fertility tea (loose leaf) and a tea ball as well as vitex capsules. I hope that we get pregnant soon! Baby Dust to everyone who is trying!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Onward medication and potty breaks...road to recovery here we come...
So far so good with Angel's medication and food! She gladly ate every last morsel of food and didn't put up much of a fuss with taking her medication. We had a minor freak out when she saw the ear drops. She tried to go hide under my end table, but in the end she sat there like a good little eight year old dog. Poor girl has had so many ear problems she knows what the small bottle of liquid is!
Angel let me give her the medication without any problems! Yay! As the vet warned us the medication would make her hungry and EXTRA thirsty... boy did it ever. I split her food up in to two separate feedings to try to curb her hunger without increasing her food intake. So, she was fed in the morning and again in the afternoon. Normally I feed the dogs in the morning and they are fine throughout the rest of the day. Thankfully the new food did not make Angel's tummy upset, but she definitely had many more trips to the water bowl and in turn had to go out more but that is okay because she is on the road to recovery (we hope).
Angel let me give her the medication without any problems! Yay! As the vet warned us the medication would make her hungry and EXTRA thirsty... boy did it ever. I split her food up in to two separate feedings to try to curb her hunger without increasing her food intake. So, she was fed in the morning and again in the afternoon. Normally I feed the dogs in the morning and they are fine throughout the rest of the day. Thankfully the new food did not make Angel's tummy upset, but she definitely had many more trips to the water bowl and in turn had to go out more but that is okay because she is on the road to recovery (we hope).
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