Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Preparing My Body

We are pretty sure we will be going back to CA in September (October that the latest).  So in the meantime I've been getting my body back in shape.  I gained probably 30lbs in the last year and a half since we started doing all the shots and stuff for our very first transfer.  If I'm not really careful with what I eat I gain weight very easy.  (Thank you SO very much PCOS.  NOT!)  Since I'm on hold for another transfer I figured it was high time I got this weight back off and get the scale moving in the right direction again.

This week I started a low carb/ high protein diet.  I'm following my own plan.  It's not like Atkins or anything like that.  I'm eating little to no bread, pasta, etc.  Instead I'm eating lots of lean meats, fish, and chicken along with having a protein shake every afternoon.  I've done a low carb diet before and after about 3 days my body is SO tired.  I know it's all due to the carb withdrawals.  I'm going through that today, but I also know that after a couple days like that then I'll have tons of energy and feel so much better.  I already feel less bloated.

So for the next 3-4 months I'm going to focus on eating better and getting at least some form of exercise 3-4 days a week so I can get these extra pounds off and be healthier for when we get ready to transfer my babies.  =) 

Saturday, June 18, 2011

A few less things to worry about

It looks like somethings around my house are looking up finally.  =)  As I type the A/C guy is on his way to install me a brand new unit.  YAY!!!  Praise the Lord!!!  Thanks to the help of my wonderful parents who loaned me half the money, we are able to have the new unit put in.  Now of course I'll need to pay my parents back, but with my bonus check I get in July I should be able to pay them back next month.

I also contacted Dr. K's office about the letter I got from my insurance that stated that they needed some sort of codes to process my request for reimbursment.  The lady at Dr. K's office said she would refile it for me and when they got the money they would send me a check!!!!  Woohoo!!!  That should be about $1500-$1800 we get back.  =)

We finally got our pool water cleared up.  It's been cloudy looking since we filled it up and I hadn't been able to figure out what was wrong.  I was getting really frustrated.  Well come to find out my sweet hubby had switched the filter to circulate instead of filter.  LMBO  So once I figured that out we now have crystal clear pool water!!!  =)

We are also planning a BIG vacation.  Greg and I talked last night and we want to take a big vacation for our 15th anniversary.  That gives us two years to save.  Even though it's for our anniversary it will also be a family trip.  So we will be taking Zach (and any other children we may have) too.....HAWAII!!!!!  I can't wait!!!  We are going to start saving January 2012.  We plan to invite some good friends of ours and their kids to go with us.  That is if they want to go.  We had a blast with them at Disneyland a few years ago so we hope they might like to join us on our 2014 trip.

So anyway I'm feeling so much better these days than I have in a very long time.  CA is still on the horizon, but for now I want to just live life and focus on the son I have already with me instead of the 12 that are still frozen in CA.  As soon as we pay off this A/C unit though, I'll be back to saving for the CA trip so I can go get 3 or 4 more of our precious babies out of the freezer.  =)

Sunday, June 12, 2011

My crazy life

Wow it's been a while since I posted last and so much has been going on.  I fully expected to be into my next cycle by now.  Unfortunately we have had to spend all of our FET money and are back to square one.  First of all AF has not ever fully come since before my last transfer in March.  My doctor says it will come and just give my body time, but I'm getting concerned honestly.  I've had spotting on and off the whole time, but none of what they call "full flow" which is what I need to start my next transfer.

So it's looking like we might be able to go in September for our last transfer (IF AF every shows up).  Everyone is so sure the devil is just causing all these problems to distract us and keep us down and so they have been praying that God won't allow that to happen.  Me on the other hand, I'm SO ready to give up.  Greg, Mom, Dad, and a couple friends keep telling me to keep going because this is the one, but I'm not so sure.  I just want to move on with my life and my family.  Miscarriage is SO hard both mentally and physically.  All the hormones are SO hard on my body too.  I'm just now starting to feel half way normal again.  Those telling me to keep going have NO clue what I've been through.  None of them have ever had a miscarriage.  None of them have ever had to take hormone shots.  Who are they to tell me to keep going?!?!?!  Then on the other hand maybe they are the voice of reason.  Maybe they are the ones that God is poking at because he knows poking at me doesn't work anymore.  I want to follow his will, but I'm tired.  Tired of fighting, tired of shots, tired of flying to CA, tired dealing with miscarriage.  I'm just T-I-R-E-D.

Anyway it's been so crazy these days.  First our A/C went out last Friday.  We were told about a year ago that if it went out again we'd need a whole new A/C unit.  Well it lasted all of one more year.  :(  We had Sears come out for an estimate.  What a rip off!!!  They wanted to charge us $7800!!!!  I then called a friend of mine's A/C guy and he said he would do it for $3000.  Much less money, but still money we don't have because we've been spending all our money going back and forth to CA.  Here we are a week later and we are using window A/C units in our living room and bedroom while Zach sleeps on a matteress in our bedroom floor.  UGH!  THIS is what trying to have another child has done to my family!!!!  THIS is why I want to quit!!!!

Then there are my inlaws.  They are the inlaws from Hell to put it lightly.  They want to see Zach and we have refused to let them.  Greg won't even answer their calls anymore.  They have verbally abused Greg and me for years and had started doing the same to Zach and that's when we cut all ties.  Last week we got a certified letter.  It was a handwritten letter from them stating that they had tried to contact us and we wouldn't talk to them and if we didn't want to be a part of their family that was fine, but that they want to see Zach.  Then stated we should contact them with good or bad news.  Ok, well......sorry but you won't be seeing MY son.  You have treated him like dirt.  You call him a snake, threaten to give him more of his ADHD medication because he's being "bad", tell him if his parents die you will raise him, tell him she is a better Mother than me, whip him almost daily (when he stayed every other week over the summer) because he was being "too loud", don't allow him to play with his toys, make him do yard and house work for you, and the list goes on and on.  That's just what you've done to MY son.  Not including what you've done to me and YOUR son.  Now why in the world would we want to let you see him.  REALLY?!?!?!?

Oh and they are threatening to file for grandparents rights.  First of all that law doesn't apply to this situation.  Second, go right ahead!!!  I'll fight you til my dying day to protect MY son from you!!!!  You won't hurt my son like you hurt YOUR son.  Let me bring out the pictures of you with your 14 year old when ya'll were enjoying a beer together.  Let me tell a judge how you drink and drive to this day even though your youngest son was killed in a drinking and driving accident.  Let me tell a judge about how you argued with me when my son was just 2 years old about giving him "a little sip" of your margarita.  Take us to court (IF you can get anyone to listen to you)!  Let me call all the witnesses to how you've treated your OWN son over the years.  BRING IT ON!!!!

Then in with all this mess there is a girl who I was best friends with in junior high and then we lost touch and found each other recently on Face.book.  She's down on her luck so I've helped her a few times.  Well now I've caught her in three lies in the last couple of weeks.  I HATE to be lied to.  You can do a lot of things, but don't lie to me.  I feel so betrayed!!!  I call very few people my friends.  I "know" alot of people, but you got to be really close to me to be called a friend.  I thought she was a friend, but boy was I wrong!  This is NOT what I need right now.

My life is all over the board right now and all I want is some peace.  I certainly don't need to be trying to have a baby right now with all this stress in my life.  Especially when Dr K says you need to do your best to be stress free.  Stress free right now is a word I don't understand.  My life is too crazy right now.  Hopefully by September it will be better and I can go back to CA one last time and then be done with this.