a definate no, nope, nada, no way jose

we are not pregnant… not even a little bit…
even feeling sure that the big *no* was a-coming did nothing to prepare me for the intensity of the disappointment/the funk/the perpetual weepy frown that started to settle in after the first negative test…
i am one unhappy gal
[thanks for all the well wishes, your [...]

8am on sunday…

* the kitties are home, such a relief… they are a little skitish, but full of energy and MISCHIEF. we may never know for sure what they had, but we do know that their white blood count was so low that the were on the edge of death… sobering
* it is 8am on SUNDAY and [...]

because we have got to stick together

as you know, a while ago dakota and i had a had major blow to our baby plans from our insurance company… if you read eva’s post at eggdroppost, you know she is currently in insurance hell…
if you have ever wanted to fight it and just didn’t know where to start, this article is a [...]

feline distemper :(

we think the little kitties have feline distemper… dakota and shenandoah had to leave them at the animal hospital overnight (heartbreaking… trouble jumped back into the carrier, ready to go home and they had to take her OUT and leave her and squint actually used his kitty voice to show his great displeasure – something [...]

cranky! R-E-A-L-L-Y cranky! [with edit]

4 more days till we test… both kitties are barfing and have the runs (dakota and shenandoah took them to the kitty emergency room in the middle of the night and it looks likely that *rubber bands* have played a role – they are on their way to get x-rays!!)… 4 more days till we [...]

loooooooong week

tomorrow will be one week since our insemination. i CAN’T believe how loooooong this week has been. and they say that the second week is harder… oh boy!
i don’t *feel* pregnant, what ever that means… but i soooo want to be.
dakota is sick, coughing and sore throat – poor sweet thing. i guess this is [...]

4 little embryos sitting in the freeze

4 little embryos sitting in the freeze
c  -  h  -  i  -  ll  -  i  -  n  -  g
we got our updated report from the embryologists and we have 4 great looking embryos that we froze today where they will stay till we get approved to put them where they belong… in my waiting uterus!

meanwhile [...]

we converged…

it was one stop shopping for us today…
- we arrived and i went upstairs while dakota put car in lot
- i checked in so i could get blood and u/s done before dakota went in for retrieval
- dakota got very delayed by the evil elevators being out (stressed my poor sweetie)
- dakota arrived and went [...]

shine on, shine on harvest moon… [with edit]

tomorrow (monday) is dakota’s egg harvest… i can’t believe it is finally here!
we made it through 9 days of shots with the grand finale last night at 1am – the trigger shot that i had to give dakota in the rump. it is hard to plunge that needle into your sweetie’s tender flesh – those [...]

convergence…

dakota had u/s today and our RE says that she is responding well to the meds (yay) and we are looking at retrieval sometime next week. she did note that the folicles were lining up in a curious way… don’t know if there is anything to make of it – she mentioned possibility of PCOS [...]