The wonder of it all...

It's been a while since I've posted, but truly not much has changed. We are still trying to have a baby. Though I went to a preconception visit with a highly recommended OB/GYN today, just truly a meet and greet. She did a standard information gathering and a quick internal and declared me perfect. That is at least one good thing. Now we are going to get a semen analysis and see how the swimmers are. If there are issues with them, we will end up with intrauterine insemination. I am hoping that we can just keep trying the natural way. I have started taking FertilAid and Fertile CM, I will let you all know how it goes. Oh, and I found that in cycles that I work the night shift, it adds two days to each portion of my cycle. Weird huh?

I am still hoping to take ACLS in the next few months. If I can get that, I might pick up some per diem ER work at a critical access hospital, and get myself some ER experience while waiting. I really want to work ER in a level 1 trauma center. We have had so many nurses leave, that there is a lot of extra time available. So, I am working a lot lately. Hopefully it will slow down, but the money is good while we are trying to buy a house.

I am starting a running program. Attempting to get into better shape. I have let go of the scale, that damn thing never moves. Now I just want my clothes to fit better and maybe to feel comfortable in some summer clothes. We shall see.

I suppose that is all for now. Not too much exciting new.

It's the waiting that sucks

Anyone who has tried to have a baby, on purpose, can probably relate. It's all about waiting, waiting for the right time, waiting to test, waiting to see if martha rears her ugly head, and then waiting again. It really sucks.

It also seems that those around you are dipped in fertility juice, especially the ones who don't want kids. I am hoping that we are not in that group that try for 5+years.

On the upside, if it doesn't work out, we are only 2 years away from an adventure. Once my stepdaughter graduates and figures life out, we are going to hit the road with a travel nurse company and do some adventuring. I imagine my husband can work on his master's degree and we can find little nooks in the world we never knew existed. He has traveled a bit, but I have not.

I was hoping to take a photography class starting on Thursday. I traded work on Thursday (a day shift) for a night shift tonight so I could make the first clas. As luck would have it, the class is full. That is what I get for my procrastination. Oh well, I can spend the next 8 thursdays doing something.

I'm off to the gym, and then a nap.

As always...remember to hug your pit bull :) And if you don't have one, make room for one. http://www.pitbullrescuecentral.org/