I know that I have not been blogging in a while, but life has been full of much to stress to think about this. Now it has all settled down and I am now ready to update.
Sammantha is now up at our house full time. We had to file twice, but it was worth all the stress, money, and time, to just know that Samm is now in a safe place. She just went back to school yesterday and has a vollyball game today. I will take pictures and post them later. We will go to court on Sept. 22nd and make everything final.
As for the surrogacy area, I am pregnant. It was a bit of a stressful time as on Friday Sept. 4th my beta was only 14. I had to wait till Tuesday Sept. 8th (stupid labor day) and it was 177. It only needed to be 56, so it almost quadrupled. No more betas, yeah. The ultrasound is on the 21st of Sept. Oh and I get to drop my progesterone to .5 mLs on the 20th of Sept.
Now that everything is settled down, life is grand. I am hoping that all of this is done for a while as I just want to enjoy being pregnant and a mom to now 3. Happy Hump Day :o)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Getting Back on the Blog
I know that I have been a slacker, but between the mini vaca at my sister's house and my husbands baby mama drama, I have been a little stressed.
OK so where do I start. My supression check went good as I have nothing over 6mm in my overies and my lining was 3.4mm which is great because that means I shed my lining. I started my wonderful Vivelle estrogen patches on the 7th and so far so sticky. I also started the estrogen pills today (2 times a day). I have been chuging along quite nicely. I go in on Wednesday for a lining check and blood draw for my estrogen levels.
As for the baby mama drama, Samm called us and we are now taking action according to what Samm wants. It is just so hard to trust a judge, who knows nothing about what is going on to make a desicion on what should take place. I just hope they talk with her and get where she is coming from and what she wants. I know that judges need to make sure that the child is not playing games, but this is the first and only time Samm has called us and said she was done dealing with her mom's verbal abuse. Here is hoping we get good news on Monday.
Everything else is just peachy. School starts for the girls on Wednesday the 19th. I have been trying to get them to bed earlier and up earlier so it is not a shock when they have to wake up at 7am. They seem to be doing good, just a couple of whines here and there, but overall not a problem. I am going to do better about making them eat breakfast this year. Ariel especially is not a big breakfast person and most of the time says she isn't even hungry. I just know that she is going to have to be on top of her game this year as we made the decision that she willb e going into the 4th grade. So she pretty much skipped 2nd grade, but still has a bit of catch up to do in language arts, but I really don't see a problem. She is a very hard worker and I have faith that she will accel. Alexya is going into 2nd grade and is right where she should be. I will have to kick her in the butt a bit to make sure she is understanding everything as the teachers don't really do a good job of that. Speaking of school I think I will head down there today to see if I can find out what classes they are in. Well TTFN :o)
OK so where do I start. My supression check went good as I have nothing over 6mm in my overies and my lining was 3.4mm which is great because that means I shed my lining. I started my wonderful Vivelle estrogen patches on the 7th and so far so sticky. I also started the estrogen pills today (2 times a day). I have been chuging along quite nicely. I go in on Wednesday for a lining check and blood draw for my estrogen levels.
As for the baby mama drama, Samm called us and we are now taking action according to what Samm wants. It is just so hard to trust a judge, who knows nothing about what is going on to make a desicion on what should take place. I just hope they talk with her and get where she is coming from and what she wants. I know that judges need to make sure that the child is not playing games, but this is the first and only time Samm has called us and said she was done dealing with her mom's verbal abuse. Here is hoping we get good news on Monday.
Everything else is just peachy. School starts for the girls on Wednesday the 19th. I have been trying to get them to bed earlier and up earlier so it is not a shock when they have to wake up at 7am. They seem to be doing good, just a couple of whines here and there, but overall not a problem. I am going to do better about making them eat breakfast this year. Ariel especially is not a big breakfast person and most of the time says she isn't even hungry. I just know that she is going to have to be on top of her game this year as we made the decision that she willb e going into the 4th grade. So she pretty much skipped 2nd grade, but still has a bit of catch up to do in language arts, but I really don't see a problem. She is a very hard worker and I have faith that she will accel. Alexya is going into 2nd grade and is right where she should be. I will have to kick her in the butt a bit to make sure she is understanding everything as the teachers don't really do a good job of that. Speaking of school I think I will head down there today to see if I can find out what classes they are in. Well TTFN :o)
Monday, August 3, 2009
Moving Right Along
This is what is going on.
Nessa's 1st birthday is tomorrow. They are not really planning on do anything big, which stinks, but I told them to take some pictures for her album at least. She has started walking now too.
Wednesday I have a suppression check ultrasound and then I am leaving for my sister's house at 6 pm to drive 10 hours with my two girls and both of my nephews in the car. I am driving at night so that they will sleep, hopefully.
I took my virology test and waiting on the results. I have to say that this is the first time I want to know what I got on the test. I have not gotten the results from my herpetology test either and it is killing me not knowing.
I went trail riding yesterday for a couple of hours, not long enough though. It is really cooling off here and I think I am going to take advantage of it while I am not pregnant and it is not hot enough to fry an egg on my forehead.
Oh and for the surrogacy, nothing really new. I missed talking with my IM yesterday, as I had no idea she was going to call. I am on the lupron and only one bruise so far from the shots that is, but I have to say that the aspirin I am taking is making it that I get bruises much easier. I look like my husband beat me. Well I am off to start studying for my next herpetology lab test :o)
Also the bank refunded all the fees and things are slowly moving in the other direction of luck.
Nessa's 1st birthday is tomorrow. They are not really planning on do anything big, which stinks, but I told them to take some pictures for her album at least. She has started walking now too.
Wednesday I have a suppression check ultrasound and then I am leaving for my sister's house at 6 pm to drive 10 hours with my two girls and both of my nephews in the car. I am driving at night so that they will sleep, hopefully.
I took my virology test and waiting on the results. I have to say that this is the first time I want to know what I got on the test. I have not gotten the results from my herpetology test either and it is killing me not knowing.
I went trail riding yesterday for a couple of hours, not long enough though. It is really cooling off here and I think I am going to take advantage of it while I am not pregnant and it is not hot enough to fry an egg on my forehead.
Oh and for the surrogacy, nothing really new. I missed talking with my IM yesterday, as I had no idea she was going to call. I am on the lupron and only one bruise so far from the shots that is, but I have to say that the aspirin I am taking is making it that I get bruises much easier. I look like my husband beat me. Well I am off to start studying for my next herpetology lab test :o)
Also the bank refunded all the fees and things are slowly moving in the other direction of luck.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
And So It Goes
4:30 am - Wake up and make Greg his breakfast and pack his lunch and send him off to work. Back to bed at 5:00 am.
7:00 am - Wake up for the second time and take a shower.
7:30 am - Get the kids up and ready to start the day.
8:00 am - Head out the door to go over to my dad's house and water the garden and plants and feed the chicken and collect the eggs.
8:30 am - Start the drive to Redding for my ultrasound and Samm's post-op appointment.
9:30 am - Get to Advanced Imaging for my ultrasound and then be in there for like 45 minutes while she poked and prodded to find my left ovary. She even asked if I was sensitive today, um no, when you are pushing on my pelvic bone with the weenie wand, don't you think that would hurt.
10:15 am - Head off to the orthopedic doctor to wait...
10:30 am - Still waiting and ....
11:15 am - Finally get into the room and then, yeah, wait...
11:45 am - Leave the doctor's office and head off to the Super Wal-Mart to get groceries in Anderson.
12:00 pm - Stop and eat at Subway, because at this point I am starving because in all the hurry to get the kids ready I didn't eat breakfast.
12:30 pm - Shop till I well, until I get everything we need and 1 hour later and $166.57 later...
1:30 pm - Start the drive home.
2:00 pm - Get home and unpack the groceries, get the clothes off the line, look at the dog bowl, feed the dogs, check the mail, stare at the bills, swear at the bills, and then go on SMO to get the latest gossip.
4:00 pm - Call my past IM, Angel, to see how her, Ben and Nessa are doing.
4:15 am - My phone call gets interrupted by my cell phone ringing the tone of my husband. Hang up with Angel and then talk with Greg. I find out that he just got a speeding and no seat belt ticket leaving work after 10 hours. I think OK I can deal with this.
5:00 pm - Start dinner, chit chat with Greg about his day and then find out that one of the journeymen that is working on the same job as him hasn't been paid in 2 weeks, which also means his benifits are not being paid. OK this is starting to suck.
6:00 pm - Eat dinner.
6:15 pm - Get online to pay some bills through online banking. See that is says $0.00 funds available. Go to the main page and see that the money we borrow from my dad via a check had bounced. We are over drawn by $1700.00 and there are 7 over draft charges of $35.00 each (and so you don't go and get you calculator that is $245.00) and then I start to freak.
6:20 pm - Call my dad and tell him and then he realizes he wrote the check out of the wrong account. Yeah I can see. I then call my bank and find out that not only are there the 7 overdraft charges, but there will be 2 more that will go through tonight (another $70.00) and that there are 4 more pending that will be going through tomorrow night ($140.00) and that is for a grand total of $455.00 I now owe to my bank thanks to my dad.
6:40 pm - Make myself a Madori sour, a big one too.
7:00 pm - Send Samm and Ariel out to get the horses so I can rind and unwind, relax, and just forget the day for a moment.
7:05 pm - Samm calls to say that the horse had stepped on Ariel's leg. I run out there and see a nice hoof print on Ariel's calf. Help Ariel limp back to the house. Check out her leg and watch it to see if there is any swelling.
7:20 pm - Ground Samm for 2 months from the horse for going out in the field in flip-flops and not putting the halter on the horses, she told Ariel they could just drag them by their fly masks.
7:30 pm till now - Just thinking how I am going to handle the bank account tomorrow, wonder if Ariel needs to go to the urgent care in the morning, how much Greg's ticket is going to be, and dreading the drive tomorrow to drop-off Samm because Greg has work on Saturday.
All this in one day. Enough to make me want to saddle up my horse and ride off into the night. They say what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, well after this night, I am superwoman. Well I am off to watch the recorded So You Think You Can Dance and drink a water.
7:00 am - Wake up for the second time and take a shower.
7:30 am - Get the kids up and ready to start the day.
8:00 am - Head out the door to go over to my dad's house and water the garden and plants and feed the chicken and collect the eggs.
8:30 am - Start the drive to Redding for my ultrasound and Samm's post-op appointment.
9:30 am - Get to Advanced Imaging for my ultrasound and then be in there for like 45 minutes while she poked and prodded to find my left ovary. She even asked if I was sensitive today, um no, when you are pushing on my pelvic bone with the weenie wand, don't you think that would hurt.
10:15 am - Head off to the orthopedic doctor to wait...
10:30 am - Still waiting and ....
11:15 am - Finally get into the room and then, yeah, wait...
11:45 am - Leave the doctor's office and head off to the Super Wal-Mart to get groceries in Anderson.
12:00 pm - Stop and eat at Subway, because at this point I am starving because in all the hurry to get the kids ready I didn't eat breakfast.
12:30 pm - Shop till I well, until I get everything we need and 1 hour later and $166.57 later...
1:30 pm - Start the drive home.
2:00 pm - Get home and unpack the groceries, get the clothes off the line, look at the dog bowl, feed the dogs, check the mail, stare at the bills, swear at the bills, and then go on SMO to get the latest gossip.
4:00 pm - Call my past IM, Angel, to see how her, Ben and Nessa are doing.
4:15 am - My phone call gets interrupted by my cell phone ringing the tone of my husband. Hang up with Angel and then talk with Greg. I find out that he just got a speeding and no seat belt ticket leaving work after 10 hours. I think OK I can deal with this.
5:00 pm - Start dinner, chit chat with Greg about his day and then find out that one of the journeymen that is working on the same job as him hasn't been paid in 2 weeks, which also means his benifits are not being paid. OK this is starting to suck.
6:00 pm - Eat dinner.
6:15 pm - Get online to pay some bills through online banking. See that is says $0.00 funds available. Go to the main page and see that the money we borrow from my dad via a check had bounced. We are over drawn by $1700.00 and there are 7 over draft charges of $35.00 each (and so you don't go and get you calculator that is $245.00) and then I start to freak.
6:20 pm - Call my dad and tell him and then he realizes he wrote the check out of the wrong account. Yeah I can see. I then call my bank and find out that not only are there the 7 overdraft charges, but there will be 2 more that will go through tonight (another $70.00) and that there are 4 more pending that will be going through tomorrow night ($140.00) and that is for a grand total of $455.00 I now owe to my bank thanks to my dad.
6:40 pm - Make myself a Madori sour, a big one too.
7:00 pm - Send Samm and Ariel out to get the horses so I can rind and unwind, relax, and just forget the day for a moment.
7:05 pm - Samm calls to say that the horse had stepped on Ariel's leg. I run out there and see a nice hoof print on Ariel's calf. Help Ariel limp back to the house. Check out her leg and watch it to see if there is any swelling.
7:20 pm - Ground Samm for 2 months from the horse for going out in the field in flip-flops and not putting the halter on the horses, she told Ariel they could just drag them by their fly masks.
7:30 pm till now - Just thinking how I am going to handle the bank account tomorrow, wonder if Ariel needs to go to the urgent care in the morning, how much Greg's ticket is going to be, and dreading the drive tomorrow to drop-off Samm because Greg has work on Saturday.
All this in one day. Enough to make me want to saddle up my horse and ride off into the night. They say what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, well after this night, I am superwoman. Well I am off to watch the recorded So You Think You Can Dance and drink a water.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Hot, Hotter, and Hottest
I know it is hotter other places, but I think there are times I am going to melt, like when it is was 111 F. It has been cooling off though to 99 F. I have to say if I could live in Alaska I would in a heartbeat, but I couldn't drag my husband there.
The rest of the meds came yesterday and now I am all set to start Lupron and baby asprin Monday the 27th. I have a supression check ultrasound tomorrow. I am sure things will be fine as they have been all along. I am getting a little more excited and trying to really keep positive as it is hard after 2 failed transfers. I have never felt like this before about things not working out. It is almost as if I have fertility issues. We as surrogates have one goal and that is to give our special parents a baby and feeling as though I am letting them down is hard. It really is emotional for surrogate. My heart is in this more then I could have ever imagined.
As for Samm she is a-okay, back to the same old snotty 13-year-old that she was before just minus Steve.
Steve before
After surgery
We are waiting till her hand heals and there is no scab to take an offical after hand surgery picture.Oh I forgot, I am leaving for my sisters house on the night of August 5th and driving 11 hours down south to lovely town called Murietta. I will be there for 4 days and then making the treck back home. I will be taking my 2 girls and both of my nephews (taking them home from visiting up here). All I have to say is thank goodness for the person who invented the portable DVD player.
Well there is my life this summer. I know not really exciting, but it is mine none the less :o)
Monday, July 13, 2009
It's Officially Official
OK so the transfer date is August 26th. My IM will be coming over again. I just found this out when I talked with her on Saturday. I was assuming that she would only be able to make it to the one transfer, but it was a pleasent surprise. She will probably come ont he 23rd and then drive up on the 24th. We are doing a 5 day transfer and the doctor suggested that we thaw all 8 embabies (I swear I should be a doctor LOL) and we hope for 2-3 good embabies to transfer.
So other news going on in my life: Sammantha is going to have surgery on her hand to get the ganglion cyst taken off (we call him Steve) on Wednesday. She is excited to be put out, but not for the IV. It is only a 20 minutes proedure so we will be in and out in a couple of hours. I am going to take her to dinner and then the midnight showing of Harry Potter tomorrow. Also we found out that Samm is a prime canidate for Invisalign and it will only be a 12 weeks timeline and half the cost of braces. We are going to do this next summer when she comes up and all her teeth are fully grown in. Yeah, no metal in her mouth for 18 months and $5000.00 that we have to pay.
That is all for now. I'll take a picture of Samm before and after the surgery to show you Steve and no Steve :o)
So other news going on in my life: Sammantha is going to have surgery on her hand to get the ganglion cyst taken off (we call him Steve) on Wednesday. She is excited to be put out, but not for the IV. It is only a 20 minutes proedure so we will be in and out in a couple of hours. I am going to take her to dinner and then the midnight showing of Harry Potter tomorrow. Also we found out that Samm is a prime canidate for Invisalign and it will only be a 12 weeks timeline and half the cost of braces. We are going to do this next summer when she comes up and all her teeth are fully grown in. Yeah, no metal in her mouth for 18 months and $5000.00 that we have to pay.
That is all for now. I'll take a picture of Samm before and after the surgery to show you Steve and no Steve :o)
Monday, July 6, 2009
I know I know
I have been a horrible blogger lately. I promise to be better. I have jsut been dealing with a lot.
So the transfer didn't work. Long story short, my IM is going to ask for a 5 day transfer instead of a 2 day and I think I am going to suggest to defrost all 8 embabies and then we transfer the best 4 (3 if all A quality). It has been a real struggle dealing with all the the failed transfers. I also found out that they are not going to persue egg donation, so if this last transfer doesn't work then that is it.
I also have started taking my tests to finish my classes that I took the incompletes in. Also I got an A- in my environmental science class (the only one I didn't take an incomplete in), so I am off to a good start. Only 4 more tests and 2 papers to go.
I will hear today or tomorrow about what is going to be going on with when the next transfer will be so I will update when I find out :o)
So the transfer didn't work. Long story short, my IM is going to ask for a 5 day transfer instead of a 2 day and I think I am going to suggest to defrost all 8 embabies and then we transfer the best 4 (3 if all A quality). It has been a real struggle dealing with all the the failed transfers. I also found out that they are not going to persue egg donation, so if this last transfer doesn't work then that is it.
I also have started taking my tests to finish my classes that I took the incompletes in. Also I got an A- in my environmental science class (the only one I didn't take an incomplete in), so I am off to a good start. Only 4 more tests and 2 papers to go.
I will hear today or tomorrow about what is going to be going on with when the next transfer will be so I will update when I find out :o)
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