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[muscari]

Welcome to the Dark Side CAL What’s Up Wednesday!

Your rotating weekly check in leaders: cali , elliecat17 , muscari & @eliida

Goodmorning, loves! Welcome to Dark Side CAL What's Up Wednesday! 

This check-in is posted on Wednesday every week. Come on in and let us know how you're doing. If you need anything from us between check ins, or if you get a BFP, please PM any of us. Please, do NOT feel the need to reply to everyone else’s updates!

So, ladies…How are you doing? Please post an update including any news, thoughts or questions you may have.

NEWBIES: We are so sorry you find yourself here but are happy you have found us; welcome. Feel free to join in when you are ready! Also please check out our blog which is filled with a wealth of information. Make sure to post an intro on the board, and add in an avatar and/or siggy when you can so we can recognize you more easily.

Newbie Questions - to help us get to know you!

1. How are you?
2. What is your status? (TTC, TTA, etc.)
3. Tell us something about yourself - Hobbies? Pets? Favorite TV show? Anything you'd like to share!

QoTW: It's the fall equinox tomorrow, hard to believe summer has come to an end already again (though secretly I do look forward to fall!). Do you have any fall traditions, like going to the pumpkin patch, apple picking, baking certain foods etc?

[MissSally]

Hi muscari! How are you?

AFM...

CALR: Pretty much in the same boat I've been in for months now. Just waiting for AF to show so I can get on the Letrozol train. Annoyed as I am, I actually really want to lose some weight... so I'm using this opportunity as best I can.

NCALR: Work has been a ball of stress lately. But I've been doing a LOT of retail therapy. For the house. I got a new couch, and a little coffee bar/wine bar. I'm re-painting the dining room, and I picked out a few decor items from Joanna Gaine's line and I'm LOVING it all. YAY! I'll post pictures soon I promise. I've been saying I'll do that since April when we moved in... oops.

QOTW: Pumpkin patch. I love the pumpkin patch!!! I have also made TWO batches of my delicious pumpkin chocolate chip bread already. YUM. I'll give ya'll the recipe if you want it

[cali]

MissSally, I hope AF shows soon! I'm glad you're taking the time to do something good for yourself though!

AFM:

CALR: In the midst of a letrozole/TI cycle right now. Had my u/s yesterday and I had two decent sized follies (16 and 17, one on each side) but my lining was a little thin. So I started Estrace yesterday and I'll trigger tonight so we'll just be HIO. If this doesn't work we're moving right to IVF, stims would start around 10/21. We've decided not to wait til December (long story but we're both very happy with the decision).

NCALR: We've been slowly working on our living room/dining room over the past year. We're doing all the work ourselves as well, so it's a very slow process. We can't afford to do it all at once right now either so it's been kind of frustrating doing it piecemeal but it's coming along. It's the first room you see when you enter our house so it's been my priority house project. So far we've gotten new curtains, new hardwood floors, painted the walls, and we just installed a new light fixture in the dining room this weekend. We also found a hutch on Crai.gslist for the dining room that was super cheap and I know I can refinish to make it perfect. We're so close to being done and I love it. All we need now is new baseboards and some wall hangings!

[elliecat17]

cali Pics!!!
muscari thanks for the check in lady!
MissSally Hope AF comes soon.

AFM:
CALR: AF came today on CD28. This is a first for me. For the last 14 years my cycles have been 25 days long. That's why we have been doing progesterone for the last 2 years. But this is the first cycle in over 2 years that I did nothing with since we were TTA. I wonder if my body has finally figured it's shit out.
Anyways now H and I could try this month is we want. But I'm not sure what our plan is. I think we may just NTNP.

NCALR: School and work combined is kicking my butt. Catholic Social Services is coming Monday to talk with H and I about fostering and adoption and we are very excited!

QOTW: I love everything fall. Having grown up in Hawaii this is still novel for me. I love going out and driving around to look at trees, apple picking, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, wagon rides etc. LOL I also like everything pumpkin so any new recipes are always welcome.

[AmazingTulip]

So it appears I am going to need to find a new doctor. I was feeling really hopeful when I started the RE process, and now I'm not feeling hopeful at all.

I had my post op appointment today and he said everything looked find, just give us a call when you get pregnant? WHAT??? I'm here because I haven't been able to get pregnant in the last year! So he gave me a brochure for Clomid and IUI. I didn't feel like we actually discussed anything that could be the root cause of my problems and all of a sudden we're at IUI? There's no other type of intervention we can try before that? I'm just kind of flabbergasted.

[cali]

elliecat17, I hope your meeting with Catholic Charities goes well! That's super exciting!

AmazingTulip, fuck, there is nothing worse than feeling blown off by your doctor. I would definitely say find a new RE if this one isn't addressing your issues or answering your questions. Having a good relationship with your doctors is so important.

[cali]

@eliida, I was just thinking of you and wondering how your cycle was going. I'm sorry to hear Lupron sucks so bad! I'm glad you start stims tomorrow!