We're everywhere

So I've been doing Jen.ny.Cra1g for the about a year and a half to try and lose the weight I put on after our wedding in 2004 and through 2005/2006 with the meds for the IUIs. Anyway, when I'd gone in to sign up again (I've done it before with great success) and mentioned to the program director that I had wanted to lose the weight because we were planning IVF with a donor. Needless to say I hadn't expected it to take so long, but you all know that already.

Fast forward to today when I was in the centre picking up food. (I'm down to 2.5 days of JC food as I work towards being off completely when we get to the start of the protocol.) I'm talking to the same program director explaining that I'm down to the 2.5 days of Jen.ny food because of the upcoming IVF, which she rememebered. It came up that she's one of us! She's 37 and had been trying for about three and half years with no success. She'd been through the usual stuff, seen an RE, had her tubes checked multiple times, and they didn't know what the problem was (hubby had already been checked out as fine). She said they had scheduled her for surgery to see if she had endometriosis when they found out she was pregnant naturally with twins! She's about 13 weeks I believe so we got to talking. It turns out the twins are identical and twins do run in her family. She commented how people kept telling them to "just relax" which totally pissed her off. She said they just don't understand that it's not that easy for everyone. She's thrilled with where they are now, but like the rest of us, doesn't consider it a foregone conclusion that she will be going home with two babies in 6 months.

I wish them well and good luck and hope it all works out for her and her husband. :)

Since everyone else is doing it...

No bad words were found.

Damn! Guess I'm not risque enough ;)

Weekend Update

So, it appears that the agency sends out weekly updates so you don't have to wonder about the status of your donor.

I just wanted to send you a quick update letting you know that your donor is completing her medical testing kit and is on track to travel and have the retrieval in the last half of August. Please call or email me if you have any questions or concerns. Have a great weekend, and I hope all is well!

So it looks like when I thought it would be. I was hoping with timing and such we'd be more into July but looking at the calendar, that's just not possible. I was looking at Daisy's schedule and it looks about the same as what ours will be, but I think, from what I've seen that we'll be on a slightly longer protocol. I was once told that it takes about 6 weeks from starting to retrieval/transfer. So that puts us at 2nd or 3rd week of July for the start for the donor. I'll know more in a couple of weeks.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Pam needs....

I got this from Gil and thought you all might get a kick out of some of these. Try it yourself.

Go to Google and type in "your name" needs? (ie. "Pam needs?") and then list the top 10 entries. I found that it worked with or without the quotation marks around the question. So here's mine:

1. Pam needs sperm donor. (no, thank you, I don't)
2. Pam needs no net to net a man!
3. Pam needs a bigger bra! (hmmmm)
4. Pam needs to tell Bill that it's Carl or her. (who's Carl?)
5. Pam needs 4-6 weeks to complete a basket for you. (I could do it faster than that)
6. Pam needs dynamic loading (what's that?)
7. Pam needs our help!
8. Pam needs some of these http://www.zchocolat.com/ (Yes, yes I do!)
9. Pam needs something in between (get your minds out of the gutter, thank you)
10. Pam needs to wear pants - she looks like a hooker (gee, thanks)