Friday, finally...

It's Friday and I'm looking forward to the weekend. A massage, acupuncture, starting my Progesterone, the Olympics, movie and dinner w/S, and just relaxing. Ahhhh...

Crate and Barrel(s of fun)

S and I went to the preview party for our very own neighborhood C&B store last night. The nearest store didn't have furniture, so they built a new, bigger store with their whole line. It was a mad house. I think the idea of free food and drink (and a drawing for gift cards) brought out the masses. We bought a few little things, reinforcing my obsession with globes. Excited that now I won't have to drive to whole 15 miles to the other malls that have the big stores.



Also, the latest (Feb/Mar) issue of Lonny magazine is finally out! It's the closest thing since Domino folded last year. Enjoy... www.lonnymag.com

Careful what I wish for...

I found out today that I will likely be going to Switzerland for business in early March. Cool, right? It's been a running joke since I started at Z in October, when/if I would ever get to go. Well, be careful what you wish for. Let me explain. I had planned to join S on his business trip to Utah at the beginning of March to get away, maybe do a little skiing and ensure that we are in the same state when I O'd, as we've been on hold for what seems like forever. Well now we may not even be on the same continent, as he won't be able to join me because of his work commitments and need for a visa. I also didn't realize that given the obscene amount of estrogen I've been taking, it's probably a bit risky to be making long trans-Atlantic flights. So I started taking baby aspirin again stat (thanks for the heads up Mom!). DVT's are super scary, but considering my sister E nearly died a few years ago from a pulmonary embolism, it's a little too close to home for me. Hoping now that the stars align in our favor in March so I O sometime when we are both in the same time zone. Ah life is funny...

Estrogen and Mucinex

So I'm on day 10 of my 21 day post-op estrogen protocol, and I feel like I'm drowning in my own fluids. Besides feeling like my pants are wet all the time (lovely), I have an obscene amount of phlegm in my throat at all times. So I went out and got some Mucinex. It seems to be helping a little, but not enough to overcome the 5 mg of Premarin I'm to ingest each day, which I've discovered is a hell of a lot of estrogen (as a point of reference estrogen replacement therapy begins at .3 mg). A side effect I'm not hating is that my boobs are getting really big. Great, except they hurt. I think it's time to go bra shopping. ;)

Great Finds

So I consider myself a semi-pro shopper, and some of my latest greatest finds are...

Frette Antonella Euro pillow sham ($25 from $190, Oak St. store move)



Earnest Sewn Keaton jeans ($38 from $198 from gilt.com, I'll take two)



L.L. Bean XL zip-top boat and tote bag in sweet pea, monogrammed w/'Ravinia' ($8 from $44)



James Gasowski contemporary art canvas ($30 from $50 from Ikea) I don't usually like modern art, but I liked this, maybe it reminds me of my life... ;)



Cole Haan Merit Jodhpur boots in black with Nike air ($100 from $250)

Post-op appt.

Can I just say that I love my RE. So it's a little strange that she is a just a bit older than me (maybe 35), but she's totally someone that I'd be friends with IRL if she wasn't my RE. She said my septum resection was "textbook" and she was almost giddy with how well it went. She said she wished she had a video of it, but was sharing the pictures of her handiwork with other patients (should I be proud?). She said the excessive discharge is a s/e of the estrogen, so I guess I need to just buck up. She warned me that my next AF would be bad, given all the drugs. She also is completely on board with our plan to try on our own for a few months post-op. She recommended doing IUIs, but didn't think we should jump into IVF, yet. She also told me that she has IVF twins (after her daughter), which I hadn't realized. So she understands why I'm a bit reluctant, if we don't need it. She said to come back after I get AF (hopefully late this month) and get another saline ultrasound, which will count as post-op (non-IF). She is very cognizant of our IF limit and is asking for a summation from the ins. company. While we could do OOP, sadly this drives treatment plans. We are aligned that injectables are not the tack we are interested in either. If we end up doing IVF, we'll exhaust our IF limit on the first try, which is a bit frightening given their 50% success rate. I'm afraid those odds don't put my mind at ease, as luck has not really been on my side in this process.
Good news today! S finally got his permanent residency conditions removed. After 12years in the U.S. for grad school, work, paying taxes, applications, interviews, endless biometrics, my husband is one step closer to citizenship! Hoorah for small victories!

Diversions...

So since we are in a holding pattern for TTC (on meds post-op, no sex, and won't get AF for another 3-4 wks. in a best case scenario), we have some time to think about other things. What a novel concept. ;) It feels like we are simultaneously getting off the baby making hamster wheel (which is very relaxing...), moving in the right direction and moving nowhere at all. So of course I'm trying to decide where we should travel next. While it's always been a favorite pastime of mine, travel was truly one of my saving graces last year. The planning and the doing. It gave me something to look forward to, when life was not giving me much else to work with.

On our list this year is Italy, Dubai and the Maldives, and another summer beach trip. We are still debating a ski trip to Utah in early March. S hasn't really skied very much, so we're not sure the mountains are the best place to start, as much I'd like to go. We need to decide on this soon. I'm trying to think of some other shorter trips to consider, since we always end up taking a lot of long weekends. I'm not sure where we go matters all that much, it just gives me something to focus on over which I can actually exert some control.

Everyone deserves to be happy and have "someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to..."