99

last night, my husband and i got to go on a date. kinda. my mother came out to babysit for us (she is the only one we leave our daughter with). we decided we were going to go shopping for our ALMOST 2 year old who has a birthday in less than a week. seriously, this is breaking my heart. more than i ever thought it would. maybe it's because it reminds me of all the birthday shopping i will never get to do for the triplets, yet planned over and over in my head for 22 short weeks....maybe it's because she is growing up so fast and i never ever want to take a second for granted, because the next second may just not be there to appreciate. none the less, it's hard thinking she is having another birthday already. after shopping for her birthday we went shopping for a new ceiling fan for her bedroom. hers is a dinky "cheap" one that we had put in for an empty room when we built the house. now, she needs a serious one to cool down her room and not just wave a little air around. have you shopped for ceiling fans before? most are ridiculously ugly. the few that are not are not flush mount, which is what we want. so we walked out with nothing and will have to keep looking. then we decided to get coffee and dessert. yummy. when we got home we spent hours (yes, WAY past both our bed times!!!) playing family feud, and some logo game on our itouch...laughing...it's nice. enjoying time with my husband, while my daughter is safely sleeping in the room across the hall. i love my family. as we were playing and talking, we talked about how my blood work went that day. the lady was complaining non stop about her stomach pain, and i really didn't want to hear "oh my tummy" one more time if she had to be near me taking my blood. then, the prick mark wouldn't stop bleeding, so she told me to wear the gauze for an hour. WOW! that's the longest i've ever been told to wear it. kinda ridiculous looking, but i know my vein is super tired of getting pricked, and no other veins give blood. i promise. it's been 3 years trying. stick with what works right? so i took it off after an hour and it was still bleeding a bit. annoying. guess it's going to be a long blood draw thursday because we will have to try another site. off on that tangent to say we were talking about that and how i get to find out from dr's what my numbers were tomorrow (which is today). we were anxious to see if this new medicine would work. my husband guessed 70. i guessed 60...oh the "games" you will find to play in the monotonous, emotional days of infertility. i then said "wouldn't it be funny if they jumped to 100 already!?" haha, like that would ever happen. they started at 30 if you remember/follow my blog. so...i called this morning. the receptionist who really needs a class in phone etiquette answered and put me on hold before i could even take a breath. i waited a few minutes and then explained i was calling for my numbers. she read "the board" (those who use fertility meds probably know the board i'm talking about). 99!!!!!! my numbers were 99! ha, funny indeed! looks great on paper! that's the quickest it's jumped in a LONG time. i won't get my hopes up too high though, we still have to make sure they don't drop, which they are notorious for doing....also, we have to take a look to make sure only 2 or 3 follicles are developing at most....because we've also gone in to see a million follicles ready to release and had to quickly abandon ship. so...i'm excited the meds seem to be working to raise my levels....and hesitant to be excited that we could have 2 pink lines in less than a month.