Injection Class

Well I haven't posted in quite a while, because we were just waiting for my cycle to get back to normal after our miscarriage. It seems to be moving along nicely now, never thought I'd say "Oh Hurrah there's my period!" But in this situation, it's a good thing to see.
Today I had to go to the "Injection Class" which is two hours of practicing giving yourself shots on a lemon with lots of other women going through the same thing. We had to watch a 30 minute video, while our tiny Chinese nurse (Tina - How appropriate was her name for her stature) scurried around giving us lemons, needles and pretend medicine. Tina had to give her little speech right before we started and I hate to be stereo - typical but she was VERY hard to understand with her thick accent. After every couple of sentences she would say "Don't worry about any thing you'll have plenty of surprise!" I was confused because this was her answer to everything. Finally at the end of the class I raised my hand to ask about our "surprise" and when it was coming - she said..."no, not surprise like party, surprise like extra needles, medicine, syringes...you know extra surprise" Oh SUPPLIES!!!
The last part of the class was the consent form - the last question I had to check a box saying that if I got pregnant with multiples it was acceptable or unacceptable to reduce the embryos. What a horrible question to ask a woman who is doing everything she can to GET pregnant and then she has to casually decide at the end of a piece of paper if it's OK to end the life of some of those babies she has worked so hard to get? It was obvious that every other woman in the room was struggling with this question as well. Pens poised over the end of the paper everyone just staring, not knowing what to check.
I didn't know which box to check, if I check acceptable I could increase the chance of 1 or 2 babies going full term or potentially end the life of 3 or 4 perfectly fine babies. If I check unacceptable I could end up with triplets that all have brain damage because they weren't able to go full term because I didn't reduce one. ACK!
Well, at least the class is over and I can check that off my fertility list of things to do.
Mike and I are getting excited for our October vacation and because this past year has been so emotional (especially the last two months) we have decided to not do the injections for the next two months (although I will still be on oral medications to keep my cycle regular) and wait until we are back in November with lots of time for appointments to do the injection cycle.
I'll keep you all posted!
Becky

The Healer

Well, I had my meeting with the "healer". He came to the houae at 6:00pm and stayed until a little after 9:00! I really enjoyed talking to him and he had some really good suggestions. I kept waiting for the "hocus pocus" but there really wasn't any.
He had some great suggestions on nutrition and energy. I have been eating LOTS of soy products and he asked me what the Dr's had said my problem was in getting pregnant and one of the problems is excessive estrogen. (Fat holds estrogen therfore I obviously have lots extra)So he told me that soy is pretty much pure estrogen and I should stay far far away from it!
We talked about chemical impacts on the bodies energy and just so many things. He teaches a Qui Gong class on Sundays here in San Jose so I will liely go to that and he gave me a good visualization technique (this is where Mike says it "gets a little hooey") for my uterus. But it can't hurt!
So, I will implement some of his techniques and we'll what happens!
Becky