I have a son who is 18 days old. And I have a lump in my breast that I thought was a blocked milk duct, but my midwife and GP dislike it enough that I’m going for an ultrasound this morning. Please let it be nothing. UPDATED: The radiologist looked at the images right away [...]
Archive for the ‘Medical issues’ Category
Perspective (with a good news update)
Posted in Baby, Medical issues on May 26, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Gotta love those sweet sweet orange drinks…
Posted in Medical issues, Pregnancy on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
So bub and I have survived the dreaded two-hour fasting gestational diabetes test. I was prepared for it to be an ordeal, as I know some of my blog friends have had TERRIBLE experiences with it. I organized my schedule so I had nothing I had to accomplish today, so I could just go home [...]
Relief
Posted in Medical issues, Midwives, Pregnancy on December 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My midwife just called with our IPS results. For my age, my risk of Down’s is 1 in 769. The point where they start to get worried is 1 in 200. My result came back at 1 in 6620, which is the equivalent risk for someone who is less than fifteen years old. And my [...]
Miscellaneous musings
Posted in Medical issues, Medications, Pregnancy on September 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today I am hive free, and almost entirely not itchy. Granted, I woke up at 4.30 a.m., but hey, at this point, I would take even more prednisone if it meant I could continue to wake up each morning without having to worry about which parts of my skin would erupt into red welts as [...]
Blogging APPT (after the positive pregnancy test)
Posted in Medical issues, Pregnancy, Soapbox on September 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Hive update: Benadryl was controlling them by yesterday evening, but I woke up this morning absolutely COVERED yet again, with the added bonus of having my eyes nearly swollen shut. I’ve made myself go to uni, as I feel fine, so it would be purely for vanity if I let myself stay home, but man [...]
Irony
Posted in Medical issues, Medications, Pregnancy on September 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Q. and I had a conversation this weekend where he said that maybe I would prove to be good at being pregnancy as a sort of karmic make up for the fact that I am so shitty at getting pregnant. The reason for this conversation was that I’m still not experiencing any really nasty symptoms- [...]
IVF #2- transfer report
Posted in Emotions, IVF, Medical issues, TWW on August 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Here is what you DON’T want to hear your f/s say as she peruses the report from the lab: “So we’re not freezing any today then.” Q. and I both absolutely freaked out inside when we heard that, but things turned out to be not quite as bad as we feared. A significant number of [...]
IVF #2- Blastocysts are go!
Posted in IVF, Medical issues, Medications on August 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The clinic called this morning around 8:45. The nurse opened with “I’ve got good news!” The f/s who is filling in for my usual one had reviewed our embryo report and decided that we are “perfect” candidates to go to blast. I wasn’t able to get precise numbers out of the nurse, as I guess [...]
IVF #2- and the fertilization report is in
Posted in Emotions, IVF, Medical issues, Medications on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This morning, while we were eating breakfast, I asked Q. what number of embryos he was hoping for. “High teens,” he said. I agreed. I figured, if we got twenty-something mature eggs from the 34, and ended up with seventeen or eighteen embryos as a starting point, that would be about as good as we [...]
IVF #2- Day 15- Retrieval report
Posted in IVF, Medical issues on August 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
34 eggs. Can’t say I was expecting that. I am in a really bad state. I needed a lot of medication to get through the procedure- they gave it to me too early and then my f/s didn’t show up, so it wore off and I needed more. As a result I’m still (five hours [...]
