well today was the first ultrasound/bloodwork day of our final invitro attempt and it seems as though 7 is the lucky number! i had 7 follicles on both ovaries, all measuring at 7's, 8's, and 9's (for the lucky ones that need translation, just know those are good measurements! haha) Maybe we will name our child after the number 7 like the Beckhams did! haha silly celebrities! (but hey, we still may if this all turns up successful! ;) this was the first time i had to go to an appointment without Chadd or my mom but i was a big girl! since chadd started his new job its a little hard to hop on over to meet me at the clinic when he works all the way in Mertzon now! i wasn't too worried though since i knew by the hot flashes and cramping ovaries that more than likely everything was growing as it should!
i have another appointment thursday, same as todays, then if it all looks okay we will head to san antonio friday night for an appointment saturday morning! we will know more by then as to what exact days retrieval and transfer will occur, since my ovaries are in control its their call! short and sweet! I will try to update thursday for anyone interested in keeping up!
He has made me who i am...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Big Change in the Brown household!
well tomorrow is the big day for Chadd! He starts his new career at Town & Country Wholesale in Mertzon as an operations manager/sales! He will get a company truck which will help with the commute and a company phone. He's super excited and if anyone needs someone to purchase fuel or other related products give him a shout! I'm so happy and so proud of him for taking this leap of faith and taking a jump at bettering his future as a successful man and providing for a family we long for so badly! I have the most amazing husband i could ever ask for! (which, i guess their are no bad ones since we all think we have the best of them? or atleast most of the time! haha)
Weve been taking it easy today since our weekend was filled with celebrating chadds last day at work thursday night, helping Cody, one of our bff's, throw his parents a surprise anniversary party, then we helped Miss Tayler, my brothers girlfriend, celebrate her 21st birthday last night! Whew! Makes me tired again just recapping! Haha Also resting today to prepare ourselves for not only Chadd starting a new job, but going for our (hope to be) LAST Invitro cycle attempt!
I am a little nervous having to go to the first 3 ultrasounds alone since Chadd will be in Mertzon working we know its rather pointless to make him ask off work and drive all the way back into town just for a couple quick blood draws and ultrasounds! Maybe I can get my mommy to come! ;) I have my first baseline set for this thursday, then if all looks good i will start injections this coming saturday! we will follow with two more ultrasounds to check progress not this week but next, on tuesday and thursday then will head to san antonio that friday for hopefully the final ultrasound! its all a play it by ear journey of course so i will do my best to update either on here or facebook when the time comes!
were also looking forward to spending the weekend in Dallas with some great friends this weekend! Maybe our last hurrah before getting prego??? haha wouldn't that be nice! we've invited a set of friends for a fun filled weekend in Dallas, but they dont know what surprises lie ahead of them!!! Can't wait Wes & Micha!!! They are very special friends that did a very special thing for us in our invitro journey to help out so this is our way of thanking them!!!
Anyways stay tuned! the next 3 weeks should be quite interesting!!!! as usual with the IVF process! chadd and i are just so ready to get this crazy, emotional, whirlwind of a rollercoaster ride over with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaater!
Weve been taking it easy today since our weekend was filled with celebrating chadds last day at work thursday night, helping Cody, one of our bff's, throw his parents a surprise anniversary party, then we helped Miss Tayler, my brothers girlfriend, celebrate her 21st birthday last night! Whew! Makes me tired again just recapping! Haha Also resting today to prepare ourselves for not only Chadd starting a new job, but going for our (hope to be) LAST Invitro cycle attempt!
I am a little nervous having to go to the first 3 ultrasounds alone since Chadd will be in Mertzon working we know its rather pointless to make him ask off work and drive all the way back into town just for a couple quick blood draws and ultrasounds! Maybe I can get my mommy to come! ;) I have my first baseline set for this thursday, then if all looks good i will start injections this coming saturday! we will follow with two more ultrasounds to check progress not this week but next, on tuesday and thursday then will head to san antonio that friday for hopefully the final ultrasound! its all a play it by ear journey of course so i will do my best to update either on here or facebook when the time comes!
were also looking forward to spending the weekend in Dallas with some great friends this weekend! Maybe our last hurrah before getting prego??? haha wouldn't that be nice! we've invited a set of friends for a fun filled weekend in Dallas, but they dont know what surprises lie ahead of them!!! Can't wait Wes & Micha!!! They are very special friends that did a very special thing for us in our invitro journey to help out so this is our way of thanking them!!!
Anyways stay tuned! the next 3 weeks should be quite interesting!!!! as usual with the IVF process! chadd and i are just so ready to get this crazy, emotional, whirlwind of a rollercoaster ride over with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaater!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES...BUT STONES THEY JUST MIGHT KILL ME!!!
ok so hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!! boy was mine a little heartbreaking for a day, but then it shaped up! read on for the story...haha
well i had my surgery last wednesday the 29th and everything went smooth! we checked in and waited and waited with my mom then they called me back and we waited some more in the hospital room then chadds mom showed up but we didnt wait too long so it was ok! the anaesthesiologist came in, Dr. Igler which ive had before and i totally love him by the way! he is hilarious!!! so they got my IV going and wheeled me back and placed me on the table. the last thing i remember talking about was we (all the staff in the surgery room) were going to meet at InVino Veritas after the surgery and boom i was out! haha. i woke up and all was good, went to recovery then my chadd came in and karyn and tamra then within an hour or so we were good to go home! i recovered the rest of the day and slept most of it as well!
by thursday i was feeling better so me valarie and bowen ventured to the grocery store to prepare for the weekend! my moms side of the family, along with anyone who wants to tag along, all go to Junction every year since i was about 3 for the 4th so i wasnt about to miss that!!!
well, all in all the camping trip was awesome as usual except for around 5:00 friday to saturday mid afternoon i was pretty much all tears!!!!! yep, debbie downer right here, but i had a totally valid excuse!!!!!!! as we were swimming in the river us women decided to get out and i got splashed from behind so naturally i turned around to return the splash and swoosh! there goes my wedding ring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes i said wedding ring!!!!!!! all 5 bands, (yes i'm gaudy) all 2 1/2 carats into the Llano river!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i instantly scream, cry, yell, and cuss like a sailor that my ring flew off! then i look up and see chadd literally running through the water with his beer in one hand, he drops the other hand to the bottom of the river immediately to start searching! as did everyone else in the water, which was about 10 or so people, more or less because they were probably scared i was going to go all lunatic since i went on a yelling rampage that lead into sobbing that finally lead to my mom pulling me out of the water holding me while everyone searched and prayed!!! props to bryan munn for taking off to the dollar store as well as meme to load up on goggles!!! well we didnt find it, so Tamra calls her husband david, since he hadn't left angelo yet, to bring the metal detector his parents own! yes, how ironic that the last one to arrive in our group hadn't left yet and conveniently had access to a metal detector??? ya crazy! so night falls, no ring...morning comes...no ring...so everyone is down at the water swimming around lunch saturday and david looks at me and says, "im going to find that ring shelby, its gonna bother the hell out of me until i do!" so i said have at it brotha! so he goes down to the water after making another trip to the store for a fresh battery...about an hour later chadd, kysha, josh, sloane and i were all up at the camp when everyone down at the water started freaking out!!! THEY FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they decided to submerge the metal detector and everytime it beeped my Uncle David, (not to be confused with brother in law david) would dig wherever it beeped while B-I-L david maneuvered the detector and right as my Godmother Gina was praying, david pulled up a handful of mud and rocks and voila! there it was!!!!!!!!!!!
needless to say mine and chadds weekend got a whole lot better as well as everyone elses! they didnt like seeing me so sad! chadd reassured me the whole time it was missing that he didnt care it was just something materialistic and he would get me a bigger one! but boy did he lay it on when we found it!!! haha not too bad though but he did put it in the ash tray in his truck and i wasnt allowed to touch it the rest of the weekend!!! thank the lord for my brother in law david and his family for making a special trip in from grape creek to bring him the detector before he left town!!!!!!! also a HUGE THANKS to all my friends and family that helped in the treasure hunt! your efforts WILL be rewarded i promise!!!!!!!! oh and please forgive me for my sailor mouth that went nuts in the heat of the moment! trust me there was no other way to react!!!!!!!!!! haha so thankful knowing the one gift, besides his heart of course, that chadd gave me did not have to be left behind! the sentimental value is totally irreplaceable!!!!!!!!!!!
well i had my surgery last wednesday the 29th and everything went smooth! we checked in and waited and waited with my mom then they called me back and we waited some more in the hospital room then chadds mom showed up but we didnt wait too long so it was ok! the anaesthesiologist came in, Dr. Igler which ive had before and i totally love him by the way! he is hilarious!!! so they got my IV going and wheeled me back and placed me on the table. the last thing i remember talking about was we (all the staff in the surgery room) were going to meet at InVino Veritas after the surgery and boom i was out! haha. i woke up and all was good, went to recovery then my chadd came in and karyn and tamra then within an hour or so we were good to go home! i recovered the rest of the day and slept most of it as well!
by thursday i was feeling better so me valarie and bowen ventured to the grocery store to prepare for the weekend! my moms side of the family, along with anyone who wants to tag along, all go to Junction every year since i was about 3 for the 4th so i wasnt about to miss that!!!
well, all in all the camping trip was awesome as usual except for around 5:00 friday to saturday mid afternoon i was pretty much all tears!!!!! yep, debbie downer right here, but i had a totally valid excuse!!!!!!! as we were swimming in the river us women decided to get out and i got splashed from behind so naturally i turned around to return the splash and swoosh! there goes my wedding ring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes i said wedding ring!!!!!!! all 5 bands, (yes i'm gaudy) all 2 1/2 carats into the Llano river!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i instantly scream, cry, yell, and cuss like a sailor that my ring flew off! then i look up and see chadd literally running through the water with his beer in one hand, he drops the other hand to the bottom of the river immediately to start searching! as did everyone else in the water, which was about 10 or so people, more or less because they were probably scared i was going to go all lunatic since i went on a yelling rampage that lead into sobbing that finally lead to my mom pulling me out of the water holding me while everyone searched and prayed!!! props to bryan munn for taking off to the dollar store as well as meme to load up on goggles!!! well we didnt find it, so Tamra calls her husband david, since he hadn't left angelo yet, to bring the metal detector his parents own! yes, how ironic that the last one to arrive in our group hadn't left yet and conveniently had access to a metal detector??? ya crazy! so night falls, no ring...morning comes...no ring...so everyone is down at the water swimming around lunch saturday and david looks at me and says, "im going to find that ring shelby, its gonna bother the hell out of me until i do!" so i said have at it brotha! so he goes down to the water after making another trip to the store for a fresh battery...about an hour later chadd, kysha, josh, sloane and i were all up at the camp when everyone down at the water started freaking out!!! THEY FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they decided to submerge the metal detector and everytime it beeped my Uncle David, (not to be confused with brother in law david) would dig wherever it beeped while B-I-L david maneuvered the detector and right as my Godmother Gina was praying, david pulled up a handful of mud and rocks and voila! there it was!!!!!!!!!!!
needless to say mine and chadds weekend got a whole lot better as well as everyone elses! they didnt like seeing me so sad! chadd reassured me the whole time it was missing that he didnt care it was just something materialistic and he would get me a bigger one! but boy did he lay it on when we found it!!! haha not too bad though but he did put it in the ash tray in his truck and i wasnt allowed to touch it the rest of the weekend!!! thank the lord for my brother in law david and his family for making a special trip in from grape creek to bring him the detector before he left town!!!!!!! also a HUGE THANKS to all my friends and family that helped in the treasure hunt! your efforts WILL be rewarded i promise!!!!!!!! oh and please forgive me for my sailor mouth that went nuts in the heat of the moment! trust me there was no other way to react!!!!!!!!!! haha so thankful knowing the one gift, besides his heart of course, that chadd gave me did not have to be left behind! the sentimental value is totally irreplaceable!!!!!!!!!!!
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