I guess you could say I'm "over the hump." I had a really great after-Christmas with my family in town for a week followed by a week of no work and quality time with J. It was a blissful & much needed break!
Our New Years was pretty lame. We popped champagne of course and took a little walk to see San Diego by night. J and I had fully planned on watching the ball drop in NYC and being in bed by 9:05 PST. Surprise surprise, they didn't show the ball drop live this year! We had a great time playing acey-deucey and made it to midnight. There is a Mexican tradition involving 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight so we toasted, slammed our grapes, and made our resolutions. I came up with probably my most thoughtful New Year resolution to date: to be thankful for everything that I DO have (a loving family, an adoring husband, financial stability, a home, a job, etc etc) and to trust 'the path.' Things have a way of working out for J and I. It's weird, and probably partly because we make the best albeit hardest choices. I.e. J's deployment to Iraq 10 days after our gorgeous wedding. I know in time we will end up in a better happier place and this will all be worth it. So that's my goal for this year; head down, grinding forward with the faith that we are headed in the right direction and in due time our dreams will be fulfilled.
As far as the head down grinding forward part: I've been working my asssssss off! Over Christmas I earned a whole paycheck in 4 days. In January I've worked 2 weekends followed by extra days during the week making time and a half and taken extra call. Same in Feb. California has nurses unions and I get paid really well. It's almost sick. Though I do work hard - 16 hour shifts, anyone? The great news is I am on track to pay off our previous IVFs way ahead of schedule and can start banking for future Egg Ops very soon. Motivation to work hard and save beaucoup bucks is easier when it's to gain something you are dying to have!
Acupuncture has been going super de duper. Nothing new to report except a beautiful 12 day luteal phase for the past 2 and current cycles.
In my search to find an RE in SoCal I came across a Resolve support group and have gotten some good intel. I have 2 appointments coming up this week. One is mostly just so I can say I gave this guy a shot. Im worried because he is highly recommended by some and trashed as useless by others...makes me nervous. The other I am super excited about. A great fertility center in LA just opened a clinic near us that is a halfway decent drive and I have been super sold by their website (is that wrong?).... We had to drive almost as far to get to our last RE in Seattle so what the hell, right?!
Til next time, Happy MLK day, y'all.
