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Thanks everyone. I had a major meltdown Wed. evening. I cried for about an hour and a half straight. Poor DH had to sit and listen and try to make me feel better. But I feel better now that I got everything out. I'm trying to focus on other aspects of my life and not have any expectations about next week. I see the RE on Thurs. to talk about options. I'm assuming he'll say injections and IVF...which I would be fine with. But we'll see. Like I said, I'm trying not to jump to conclusions or anticipate what's coming. Just let it happen.

One of my major issues emotionally right now is the desire to be a mother. And these fertility issues are making that difficult. When I talked to DH about it he was so sweet, and what he said really helped. He said, "don't worry, you WILL be a mother." Whether it be biological children, adopted, whatever, we will have kids. That was such a reassuring thing to hear. Even though I would love to have children of my own, I am not in control of that. But I WILL have children! That makes all of this much easier to handle. Neither of us is opposed to adoption, if we can't have kids of our own...or maybe even if we can.

Now I just have to wait 6 days to find out what's next. Michele, do you think that will be too early for the Dr. to do a pg test? I'm feeling lots of different symptoms right now, but I'm assuming they are just from the drugs and rising/changing hormones that my body isn't used to. I've been quite tired...was pretty much asleep for about 20 min. at my desk today...nothing I could do to stop it. Like I said before, I have much worse acne than usual. I've been peeing more frequently/urgently. My boobs feel fuller and a little sensitive (something I've never had). My C has been worse all week. The last few days I had cramps. Now it's just weird twinges periodically on my right side (side I O'd on). And my emotions are way out of whack. Like I said, it's probably just the drugs, but I'm holding on to that tiny bit of hope that I could be pg despite what the Dr. says/the low odds.

One other thing that I'm excited about right now...I don't have to take any drugs this week! No progesterone. No clomid. It's nice. And it's exciting that I probably won't have to take clomid anymore. That stuff is manageable, but not preferable.

I'll let you know what I find out next week.

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~Mary
Had surgery for rectal prolapse in Sept. '06 and feeling good now! Loving life with our IVF miracle #1.

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