Unless I hear otherwise, we’re a go.

So, I had my appointment this morning with – Dr. Bigshot!  Some of you may remember that he’s the one who failed to find the fetus still hanging around in my bleeding uterus a month after the miscarriage.  You might also remember he’s the fellow who cavalierly diagnosed “the worst case of adenomyosis” he’d ever [...]

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I’m in Brooklyn.

The boy’s on his way to Calgary.
My cycle started at about 10 this morning, just after the time I might have considered going into the clinic & claiming, “No, really, it started last night…”
Good news is, of course, that it DID arrive, because I’d be beyond pissed if it started on, say, Saturday, when I’d’ve [...]

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PBJ instead of glamorous parties with high-flying editors.

*sigh*  This is my life.  And the worst of it is that if I don’t get to go to Calgary, I’ll have to go to work.  So instead of flying to a foreign country, meeting up with interesting people I haven’t seen in a year or so, instead of being all dreamy and romantic with [...]

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AARRRGHHHH!!!

That is the sound of a woman who is not, for a change, bleeding.
At all.
Nada.
I would have given a lot, over the summer, to have found myself writing those words, but right now?  All I wanna do is start this damned cycle AND go to Calgary.  Is this really too much to ask?
Apparently.
Ahem.  (deep breath). [...]

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Argh.

So much for this being day 1.
Argh.
Because I have to go in for my baseline numbers on day 2 or 3 of my cycle, and because I’m going to be in a foreign country from the 30th through the 2nd, I figured this would be no problem because I am – and always have been [...]

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