Under reconstruction

I'm in the process of  re-purposing this page as it's quite obvious that it's not going to be used for what it was created for. The new title is up... the colors and decor will come in a bit. The link will be changed to reflect the new blog but I wanted to give a heads up on that before just changing it.

Updating

Meant to share this months ago....

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/video.aspx?vid=12b2b2f9-7fdb-4745-9b77-511614bcea0b

August appt:

After a discussion with the ob/gyn in August, I've come to the conclusion that this is simply not going to happen for us. Hubby just doesn't want to do what needs to be done to see if things are on his end. I know a man doesn't want to have that info about himself, that he wants to feel invincible, however sometimes tests like that need doing. Anyhow, I am thinking it's a moot point. I told the dr that I even used the predictor kits for 3 months running to make sure the timing was right. She asked if I got the double lines and I told her yes. Her response? Well, we don't need to send you in for further testing because obviously your body is doing what it should be doing. Next steps? He needs to go back in and be retested and then they see about putting me on meds and such. I don't see any sense in it when there are other things that need to be happening too.... and they haven't been because he's always sick. So why waste the money on meds that will be of no use?

Anyhow, I suspect this blog will get deleted or simply repurposed in the next week or so.... assuming I'm up for working in the account.

So this month

... I decided to grab the bull by the horns (figuratively speaking) and get myself one of those 20 strip ovulation prediction kits. The box stated that you could start testing the day after your period if your cycle was less than 35 days long. If your cycle was typically longer than that, than you needed to wait 2-3 days before starting testing. As we all know from previous entries, mine is completely unpredictible. So I waited 2 days and started setting the alarm to get up at the same time every morning so it had the early morning urine to test on.

For the first 10-15 days, there wasn't anything. Not even the slightest hint that an egg was going to be dropping soon. *sigh* But I kept testing. The day I tested with the last strip, I had the barest of lines in the test area, but not nearly enough to denote an egg. That day, I ended up going out and buying another kit...this one was only for 7 days as I was getting close to another monthly period. By day 5 in this test, we got the result we were waiting on.

So I did what any woman, who's been wanting this for as long as I have, does when she gets this result....didn't give the husband a choice. NOW was the time. For 3 days I got the same results and then I ran out of testing supplies, but it doesn't matter. Why? Because after the first day, hubby came down ill....*AGAIN*....due to his friggin sinuses. Fever, nausea, the whole kit and kaboodle...again. So either the one encounter will be enough, or we've missed the window yet another month. I'm not getting my hopes up this time either. Just letting y'all know where we stand.

Hubby's going in for blood work this week and has his yearly physical with the PCP next week. I've told him he needs to get all of his appts squared away before he goes back to nights the middle of next month.