Shocking News ...

Dec 08, 2011

Well, I fell off the WLS wagon! I got sooooo tired after that last post. I wasn't eating the way I needed to again.  I honestly didn't know what was wrong with me.  This is my story, and I'm sticking to it ....

My husband and I have been trying to have a baby for 4 years.  It has been an emotional roller coaster in all honesty. We split up twice during this time and almost divorced - mainly because of the stress that this was causing on our relationship.  We finally made the decision we were going to go the IVF/ICSI route after being told by 3 MDs that there would be no way for us to have a baby without intervention.  The short version is basically, my husband's boys weren't fast swimmers and were kind of stupid. Lol.  We met with the MD, got the testing done, and were scheduling to begin 3 cycles at a whopping cost of $23,000 beginning January 1, 2012. 

In anticipation of having the ICSI, I wanted to go ahead and get all the other medical issues taken care of.  Not sure if I mentioned it before, but I had surgery on my thyroid in mid-October. I had a tumor in my throat that was growing.  When they went in to get the tumor, they found that it was wrapped around the right thyroid, so they ended up taking it out.  They also found out that I have another tumor growing on the left side, but it is still too small to do anything about, so they said in 10 years, I'll probably have to have it removed. 

But I digress ... in preparation for the ICSI procedure, I have, of course, been tracking my periods.  Not too closely because I tend to be very regular.  I happened to look at my period tracker on my phone and I showed it to my husband.  I said, "Husband ... you see those dates that are highlighted in pink?"  He said, "yeah". I said, "you see what today's date is?"  He said, "yeah".  I said, "I'm a week past when my period should have started". So, we talked about it for a minute.  I am not typically late - UNLESS I'm stressed.  So, we decided to head over to Wally World and get a pregnancy test.

When we were buying the test, I was trying to decide which one to get.  There are SO MANY OPTIONS!  Before I could pick one out, he says to me, "Wife .. we need to talk about this first. Now, we are not going to be disappointed if it comes back that you are not pregant. We have a plan and we are still going to do the plan". I said "ok", but it was hard to think about taking this test and seeing that NOT PREGNANT again.

We drove separately to Wally World so that we could fill up the vehicles with gas, so I got home before he did.  I immediately took the test because I didn't want to really break down in front of him when it came back as negative again. It's SOO hard for both of us each time it happens.  THIS IS KINDA GRAPHIC: I peed on the stick, put the cover on it, and wiped it off, then placed it on the counter. In the time it took me to wipe down, pull my clothes back up and flush the toilet (so maybe 15 seconds - not the 3 minutes that it says), it came back as PREGNANT!!!!

I stood there and stared at it for a minute.  Then, I heard Alan coming through the garage door.  I was standing in the middle of the living room.  He starts talking to our 12-year-old, and I'm bouncing I'm so excited.  He says, "you have to pee?". I said "come here".  He says, "what?" and I said it again.  He hugged me and he said "what?". I whispered in his ear, "You're gonna be a daddy".  He said, "Get the hell out of here! Are you serious?".  I was like "YES".  I showed him the stick.

He IMMEDIATELY called his mom to tell her!  We ended up taking two more tests - one that night.  And the other with the first morning urine.  They all came back within seconds, not the 3 minutes on the box.

I went and got a blood test yesterday, and the MD called me at 7:00 this morning to tell me that it came back as POSITIVE. He sounded as excited as I felt.  I know that our MD is just as aware of what we have been through as we have been.

So .... WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!!

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