Finally talked to my doctor last night…

…and it was an illuminating, if somewhat discouraging, conversation.
I told him I was starting to get really antsy about getting started again, and that I’m tired of feeling like shit all the time, and that it seemed to me that my HCG numbers are dropping really really really slowly, yes?
He said yes, and that he [...]

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It’s Tuesday, my least-favorite day of the week

Mostly because that’s the day I go in for my weekly HCG tests at the baby-makin’ clinic. That’s where all my tests are classified as ‘preg.’ instead of ‘decidedly not-preg’. Which sucks.
On the good (good?) news-front, my HCG numbers are still halving – however, the bad news is that we’re looking at a [...]

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Thinking out loud

Still waiting to start to miscarry. Still waiting.
Not that I should really be looking forward to misery and blood, but I guess I’m really believing that this one is over, and I need to start looking forward to the next attempt.
I’m drinking a glass of hard cider, even as I type. Yum. [...]

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Oh boy.

So yesterday was the first day I wasn’t on prednisone, and I nearly didn’t make it home.
Started getting light-headed on the subway which, if you’ve never feared fainting on NYC’s subways at rush hour, is a treat not to be missed. Nothing like fearing for your life if you pass out instead of just [...]

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How I spent my summer vacation…

So I went in to the doctor, had the stupid ultrasound, and, sure enough, it turns out that my doctor had overlooked last week’s numbers, so he wasn’t really basing the “your numbers are so high” on anything at all.
Grrr.
We were able to get a bit of info, though. He showed me how massive [...]

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