So….we’ll find out in the next week or so whether or not we’re pregnant….and if it doesn’t happen, then we’re going to be starting IVF pretty soon. That’s the big numbers I talked about a few weeks ago. We had a consult with the doctor the other day, and although Melody had already got all the information, it was helpful [...]

Just took some pictures for posterity of the medications Melody has had to take so far: The one that comes in a pen is the Follistim — it’s for telling the body to produce as many eggs (from follicles) as possible, to increase the likelihood that one of them will get fertilized. The process with this one is to attach [...]

This past week was the beginning of the cycle where Melody will be on hormone medication (injections that I have to give her) to induce what they call “super-ovulation.” The medication is expensive, but mostly covered by insurance (for now). If we go with full IVF, then the medication is not covered…which is BS if you ask me. Anyway…I’ve been [...]

Melody had an appointment with the IVF Study doctor a few days ago, and to cut a long story short (that Melody will be writing about soon), we didn’t qualify for the study. That means our hope of pursuing the cheap route to spawning is not going to happen for the time being. The going rate for IVF was going [...]

So…..doing my thing…stumbling around the webz as usual…..found this site: BabyZone.com You can click a button and get suggested baby names. Pretty cool idea right? Yes. Pretty bad implementation of that idea? YES! Here’s the names I got back when i asked for Girl’s names : Here’s the list that i got back when i asked for Boy’s names. This [...]

Last night went as well as we could hope. Melody slept through from about 1:30am until 6:00am, with only one wake-up. There’s been no more nausea, and the pain level on the smiley-face/frowny-face scale is now hovering around a 4 or 5. The most important thing though, is that the bowel surgeon came in this morning and said two very [...]

Last night was pretty difficult. Melody had a lot of pain, a lot of nausea, and not a lot of sleep. This morning she was still struggling, but trying to snooze as much as possible. I left around 9:30am, handing over the reigns to Melody’s parents for the day. Upon arriving back, i found Melody in 500% better spirits, and [...]

[EDIT: this post used to be 10:25pm Saturday..but i meant Friday....guess the sleep deprivation got to me] Melody’s been up and walking around a few more times, which is good. But just recently she started getting a pretty bad headache, and is now back to being nauseous. Obviously she’s getting some medication for it, but it’s a crappy thing to [...]

Most of this is as described by Melody’s parents, and also Melody. I’ve been at home since around 10:30am when we switched shifts. Melody is feeling much better than this morning, but still not anywhere near 100%. She has been up and walking a little on her own (while holding the rollable IV-drip of course), and has been able to [...]

Long night last night. Melody probably got about 2 hours total sleep by her account. I got about 3 I think, interspersed with waking up to help out, and try to pay attention when the nurses came in. The nurses last night were great. Kristen and Beth were the opposite of what you might assume about graveyard shift staff. They [...]