sigh…

i was laid off yesterday… ouch!
in the world of lay offs, it was a good one. i can stay through may 1st to produce the big round of meetings we have coming up (or leave if i wanted). they are giving a 6 week severance and allowing me to keep my company owned laptop. i [...]

20, 13, 10, 5 what a numbers game this all is…

hello all…
we are at 2 days post retrieval and here’s what we have at this stage in the game…
5 fertilized embryos
what started as just short of 20 follicles went to 13 eggs retrieved, to 10 mature eggs in the batch, to 5 fertilizing.
we wait to see tomorrow how many make it to the freezing…
in the [...]

Delightfully Inappropriate

Mulberry is lying in bed recouping from the retrieval, ice cream and gat.orade so I, Dakota, am again guest blogging.  At the risk of burying the headline let me first proclaim there were 13 eggs retrieved!   We won’t know until tomorrow how many are mature nor will we know for a few days how [...]

20… can you believe it?

well, the retrieval is tomorrow (friday) morning and it looks like there are about *20* follicles percolating in there. oh boy!
i feel like the biggest wuss… i am SO nauseous and have had a migraine more days than not in the last week. i am super tired and yet don’t sleep well, i have [...]

underway…

hello friends… i’ve been quiet on the outside, but busy and chewy on the inside…
we have a new plan, and it is well underway…
at the last minute we decided to add dakota to my new health insurance that started jan 1st. costly, and not a financially feasible plan for the long term, but woo [...]