CD 22

and i'm feelin' super moody and PMS-y

Yesterday I craved chocolate like you wouldn't believe...typical sign of my 'riod coming on...

I hope this means my cycles are back to the 28-30days they used to be...

Wouldn't that be nice.

My husband

is adorable

he doesn't usually sleep like this, but, i had the T.V. on

and i guess he just couldn't stand the sound.

I couldn't resist taking a picture of him and our snowman sheets.

where we're at...

I should know by now, that life never goes according to plan...

I've lightened up in the way that I do not get as hysterical or frustrated when my plan doesn't seem to be panning out. I think it only ages me more. LOL

Mike and I had 'planned' on getting pregnant last November, and had succeeded. Unfortunately, the pregnancy didn't stick and we had a D&C in January.

We then 'planned' on trying again in June/July, but we were so sick, we only managed to BD a handful of times and not on the good-temp days.

Went to a family reunion and came back and my period had never arrived. It was a 50d cycle. My longest ever. Saw a doc who said I have PCOS.

Got bloodwork done and it was all out of whack, but the PCOS results came back negative.

Got bloodwork done again b/c my general practicioner had a feeling the results weren't mine.

The 2nd set came back and it was confirmed, the results were not mine, except for some vitamin D deficiency I apparently have.

The Vitamin D Deficiency turns out to be more serious than I had figured. With the numbers I have, it was recommended that we not try again until we got my numbers up. (b/c we'd be at high-risk for another miscarriage)

So, right now - I am on Vitamin D3 supplements and some prescription Fish Oils (b/c the non-prescription brand 'sometimes' can have a side effect of fish-burps. EWWWWW) Seafood makes me gag.

I've been keeping busy trying to get the house in order to sell. It's a lot bigger of a task than we had anticipated, but it's underway.

Mike's grandmother is not doing so well and was told that she was going to die. She's not handling it well, neither would I. Mike is not taking it so well either, which is to be expected.

Everything just seems to be happening so fast.

New Picture Post @ Typette

Honeymoon post & lotsa photos!!

Got married almost a year ago -- and never posted a honeymoon post.
FINALLY got to it today.

Check it out on my other blog!!

awesome dream...

i dreamt, last night, that i worked for NASA.

Wow.

My husband was called b/c NASA couldn't reach me and it was an emergency. They told him all the details and that I had to report to NASA ASAP.

There was a negative side to it, in that my role in this particular dream was to be the team leader for a group of local NASA Astronauts and help on a mission to rescue a team of other astronauts that were currently stranded in space.

My dream consisted of 'on earth' stuff, review the information we had about the current 'accident'. The legalities and confidentiality of it all. What our main task would require us to do. How we were going to do it etc... Since me and my local team of astronauts had not prepared for something like this, we were being tested on some other things. Math (with really funky fractions that just boggled my mind) they were questions that really were impossible to figure out. I hate it when dreams become impossible.

Anyway, it was just a test to see how we would react to impossible situations haha.

I passed.

I was so scared about going into space...I mean b/c really, i had NO clue what to expect.

Alas the dream didn't get much further than that. But, it was satisfying and I very proud of myself for holding a position like that.

I interpret this dream to mean ... i wish I had a job that required more responsibility and credibility from me. Don't get me wrong, pet-sitting is extrememly rewarding, but in a different way.


Anyway, it's definitely better than the dream I had the night before in which I would voluntarily electrocute myself about 20 times a day with an electrocution hat. It didn't hurt, it was just friggen weird.

NEW SITE ADDRESS!!!

reverting back to ye'ole blogspot address.

http://mrsmoomoo.blogspot.com

in the next 2 weeks.

and that be that.

hmmm confused, again.

So, just got my riod again.
Which makes the cycle only 28 days. It's the shortest one I've had since the D&C. And 28 days was the length of my cycles before we got pregnant.
Well I'm glad we decided not to pursue trying this month, b/c we would've been disappointed. According to TCOYF I was supposed to be ovulating yesterday and be getting my period on Sept 21st. Ha.

I don't know if this means I'm going 'back to normal'...and that maybe the steroids just got my cycle a bit off last month or what.

All the blood test results I had just recently gotten... they are questionable at this point. I saw my GP doc and she has a gut feeling that they screwed up in the lab or something and mixed my results with someone else. To have the liver of an alcoholic when I don't even drink or take meds is absurd. Also I have no signs of liver issues - no pain, no swelling in that area, no jaundice, all my bowel movements are just fine. Thanks for asking ;)

My blood pressure and EVERYTHING else are completely normal... so what is this all about? -- My GP gave me a prescription to get the tests redone, and I went somewhere OTHER than the OB/GYNs office.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that those results were not mine.
If they are, well then -- I have another prescription to get an ultrasound of my liver and some other blood tests to take. I have been super paranoid in the meantime, b/c of the C-Reactive Protein, Cardiac results being so high. When I asked my GP if I was at high-risk for a heart attack with those results, she said yes. Great.

So I've been watching what I eat, no trans-fats, no white carbs, no high-fructose-corn-syrup.

My Vitamin D deficiency -- well, all docs at OB's office said to take 1000mg Vitamin D a day (supplement) and my GP said NO, b/c vitamin D is fat soluble and goes through the liver and can have a negative affect if we don't know what is wrong with it. Have to diagnose the liver issue before moving on to the others.

We will see.

So, tonight we are having Mike's family over for dinner. I'm making Baked Ziti of all things. Talk about Heart Attack!!

I found a low-fat healthy(er) way to make it.
I use part-skim cottage cheese, part skim ricotta, part skim mozzarella, a little bit of parm. Wheat penne or ziti and reduced sodium tomato sauce and crushed tomatoes. 1 serving is 2.5cups, which is TOO MUCH for me. But, It's definitely healthier than the typical type I used to eat.

It tastes great too.

For the recipe -- check this out.

Ellie Krieger has a ton of healthy recipes.

I'm gonna make YOU something.

Was reading my bloglines feeds today and signed up for this via Coco's website.

It seems like a cool idea and motivation for me to get my craftiness going. I'm not sure I actually possess craftiness, but I will find out during this event.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me, especially for you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:


1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make but I hope you will.

2- What I create will be just for you.

3-They say I have a year to get it to you. But I promise it will NOT take that long.

4- You have no clue what it's going to be. (nor do I at this point! :)

The catch? You must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog.

So the first five people who post, and are willing to pass it along,will get a handmade gift in the mail from me. When you get it, make sure you post a pic on your blog! Let's have some fun!

Went to my follow-up....

and I was really pleased with the Nurse Practitioner.

Maybe it's because she said more of what I 'wanted' to hear, but either way, I heard her out and tried to think if it was logically right.

She asked me if I had acne and if I had facial hair. Yes, I have slight acne, that started while planning my wedding, I thought it would go away, but it hasn't. Do I have facial hair? Yes, I have fuzzies...but, there are also a few random coarse hairs under my chin.

She says these are the 'physical' signs of PCOS.
Another physical sign is abdominal weight. Which, I DO have. Not in denial there.

She said LOOKING at me, do I look like someone who has PCOS? -- Yes.

But, according to my blood results, nothing is off enough for her to confirm that I actually have it.

For all she knows, I come from a hairy family (half Italian hehe) and I have oily skin.

I asked her if my recent weight gain of 5lbs (since the D&C in January) could be a trigger, and she said yes, it 'could'. But still, there is nothing strong enough to confirm the last doctors suspicion of PCOS.

She said there is no way she would treat me with meds now, b/c that is bad medicine. I agree! Finally! w00t!

She would want to do more testing, like an ultrasound of my ovaries to see if I have little pearl looking things on them (cysts). And she would also treat my husband.

She says 40% of the time there is a problem with the male, 40% of the time it's female related and 20% of the time it's both.

I also asked her if I were to lose some weight -- would that 'reverse' the PCOS? I think she said YES. But also, if I don't actually have it, I COULD be at risk to get it, so to avoid that it wouldn't hurt to diet. Luckily -- I just started Weight Watchers and have already lost 5 lbs. So I'm back to the starting weight. Joy.

Okay -- so, I'm happy she is not concerned about infertility and me, since we tried 1 month and got pregnant, and the next month that we tried -- we didn't try so much. Also, another reason she believes my last cycle (of 50 days) was so long, is because I had taken a dosage of Prednisone steroids b/c I was sick when I traveled. Joy, I thought the same thing.

So, in the meantime, we are NTNP for awhile. My liver function test levels are way off and my vitamin D and C-Reactive Protein, Cardiac ... are way off too.

To read more about that part of my life, click here, to go to my personal blog. I'm going to my GP to discuss and get more testing done. She seems very concerned and now I'm kinda freaking out.