The Journey to the British Isles!

As some of you may know, we're getting ready to take a vacation to England, Scotland and Ireland!  I can-not wait!  Friday can not get here soon enough.  If you are one of my facebook friends, do not plan on me posting all that often, nor responding to any posts for a month!

Oh my goodness, that means that it's just that much closer to deployment...I can't believe that it's already that time of the year.  Tear, tear.  I'm going to be lost without my best friend!  At least I'll still have school, but when he was gone for 3 months to train at Ft. Leavenworth, I was lost then...and I was working and my mother lived with me for a short while.  Sigh.

I do have a wife, though.  One of my longest friends...a friend I've had since I was in jr. high school...will be mostly local while her husband is off working a variety of jobs throughout the US.  At least I won't be totally alone.  I feel like that prayer has been answered.

If it turns out that I haven't conceived before R's gone, I will try a couple of IUI's.  We haven't decided how many of those treatments I should endure before going to IVF...there's a significant cost increase with that kind of treatment.  In my mind, 3 IUIs before IVF...but, I don't know how much more successful an IVF will be.  As far as the docs know, we've already corrected the known problems, SO the IUIs should work...

Anyway, if I'm not pregnant this cycle (sniff, sniff), the upside is that I can drink my body's weight of vodka and various wines for a week or two before we try naturally...here's hoping...

The Journey to August

So, R is getting deployed a little sooner than we had anticipated.  :(  Such is the life of a military family.  I'm feeling tense right now.

I don't really know how he feels about it.  It is what it is, to him, I guess.  And it really is what it is...just something I need to work out on my own.  I don't blame him.  He didn't VOLUNTEER to go early (or so he says...watch out, I tend to be passive-aggressive...)

I start fertility hormones this week, and as the previous times that I've taken hormones, I get a little crazy (eh hem...slight underestimation, probably).  Luckily, R's VERY patient and tolerant.  And it's a good thing, too!  I highly doubt we'd still be married if he didn't tolerate my moodiness.  I'm less crazy since I've had him in my life and he's a little more outgoing too!  Perhaps I've just grown out of most of it...and now that he's getting to know my family better, he kind of understands some of my neurotic tendencies better, too.  In fact, he says I'm a lot like my dad, temper-wise.  We both blow up, but once it's done, it's done.  And then, we're fine!  LOL!

At any rate, we're going to deal and I'll probably just be a little neurotic between now and then...at least I was the last time we went through this...I think I know what to expect a little more than before and I also remember how I was thinking back then so I should be aware of things that I might do and try not to do those things.  I really hope that I get pregnant before he goes.  I really REALLY don't want to do IUI/IVF treatments while he's gone...

The journey to becoming a mommy

I recently went through a laparoscopic and a hysteroscopic surgery and have been given the green light to start trying again. I can also get back in the pool and lose the extra pounds I've been carrying around!

I start clomid, estridol and hCG hormones in June followed by an ultrasound later in the month. If I am not pregnant by late summer, we are going to get my husband's swimmers frozen for an IUI/IVF treatment.

I hope to have good news to share in a few months! :)