Journey to being a stay at home mom

Well, it's official!  I'm pregnant!  The IVF worked!  After some discussion, we decided that it would be best that I stay at home and raise our baby.  It will be hard to give up school, but it is only for a while.  Rob's looking at getting an appointment to the Naval Post Graduate school in Monterey, CA and he will be starting school in less than a year.  It isn't practical for me to continue school while he's in school.  Someone needs to raise our kid!  So, anyway, it looks like I will be leaving school at the end of this semester.  School will always be there, but there will only be one time to raise my baby.

Journey of the Egg retrieval

I thought this day would never come, but it did...it came today.  We got 42 eggs from our donor.  ICSI was performed on the eggs and we will know tomorrow how many of the fertilizations took.  I'm very excited.  Hopefully the little embryos grow out to day 5 and that we can transfer 2 and freeze the rest for later or for a friend of mine who may end up adopting them.  We'll see what happens! :)

Journey to Transfer

Well, it's going to happen.  And happen soon.  We are now on donor #4 and she is starting to take her medications and I am going to start putting on my patches pretty soon.  Transfer will be the week of June 13th.  I'm pretty excited, but nervous at the same time.  It will most likely be on that following Saturday, but can't say for sure until we get closer to that time.  Based on past experience, she will have the retrieval on Monday the 13th.

Well, anyway, probably need to get some stuff done around here and get busy studying.  Trying to enjoy my day off as much as possible!

Journey through Nursing School

Well, it's official!  I started Nursing school this past week.  Didn't do a whole lot, just got through orientation.  Start classes on Monday!  Hubby's home for RnR.  Too bad I won't be able to spend a whole lot of time with him while he's here.  We've already lost 2 days due to orientation and I have to study all weekend.  He's being really good to me.  Fixing stuffed bell peppers...yummy!  One of my favorite meals!

Well, I'm off to finish some math/conversion problems and start reading the next three chapters.  Perhaps I'll be pretty close to done today so I can spend tomorrow with the hubby!

Journey to next week’s exams or the start of the donor cycle

I come back to school next week with three exams to look forward to.  Hum, look forward to?  I’m not sure about that, but will be glad when they’re done.  I kind of have myself into a little routine for my weekly exams in pathopsy, but completely unprepared for the next two which are both on Thursday.  Professors are cruel beings.

Update on my donor.  We had to get a different one because the first one freaked out and decided not to go through with it.  In a way, I’m glad that she decided she didn’t want to do it when she did and start the meds and THEN decide that she doesn’t want to be a donor after all.  My hubs and I found a new girl and she seems very excited about the process.  She’s got three kids and a husband.  Got a call from the agency and she went in for her day 3′s and had an ultrasound which made us very hopeful.  Will try and call my RE and see if they can let me know how the blood work came out and when she goes in for her FDA blood work.

In just a couple of months, hopefully, there will be teeny tiny embryos to implant!  It’s all very exciting.  Just wanted to give you a quick update!

Journey to Friday

One of my professors passed away this week.  I didn't know him very well.  I wish I had.  For some reason, his death has really hit me hard.  He was about the same age as my dad.  My dad has some health issues, as well.

Journey to Spring Break

What a hell-of-a-long-semester.  Forever busy and I can't stop playing around on facebook.  I am going to have to stop some of those games that I play because it is all time consuming and wasteful.  This week is midterms and then Spring Break.  If I can make it through this week unscathed, it will be a miracle and a half.  I'm doing really well at this point, but I have a feeling that this week's exams are going to kill me.  I'm worried about my Genetics and Pathophys exams.  Not worried at all about my First Aid exam...the instructor already gave us all of the questions and answers for that one...yeah, wow!  I don't care for that class, but I need my Red Cross certification for the Nursing program...speaking of, I need to get some titers done and TB tests done and blah blah blah.

Nothing really new in this world.  Hubby's still deployed and it's just me and my dogs and cat hanging out, enjoying the ride.  This weekend starts daylight savings.  As if I wasn't having enough problems getting up in the morning, this ought to make it easier...lol...that was sarcasm, just in case you hadn't already figured that out...

Alright, then, I've set my clocks and damn it's getting late.