The Sisterhood of the Blue Stilettos

[Angie65]

Hey sistas - greetings from a sweltering hot Melbourne - we are holed up inside with the fans going - may as well be snowed in - same thing really!

Well thanks for the invites to visit NA - Amy in Sac (jeez even that has IVF/pregnancy connotations) - then I could visit Sassy in "End of Frayed Rope" - strange name for a town mind you! - then see Meggo and Wanna some where in the middle ? (where it snows alot) , thaw out in Florida with Vicky then do a stopever in Dubai to see Pattie and then Fee on the way home. Really must get my work trip sorted and then I could turn it into a round the world trip.

Amy - did like your fortune cookie sign - it truly is a sign. Unless going far in medicine means getting adicted to Greys Anatomy like everyone else seems to be - it is starting here on SUndays so I may get into it this season - haven't really watched it much but need to to talk to the sisters about it.

I like Desperate Housewives - we are behind US I think but we just had the one where Gabrielle and Carlos got their ivf baby courtesy of the surrogate house keeper - but it turned out to be chocolate coloured. Made my think of a funny joke I heard here about hoping that they mix up the embies in the lab, at least then we'd have a better chance.

Sassy - am with you on the thread question - I am a bit of a thread floozy - jump around from here to there but I do like this one alot - it gives me the most laughs - and laughs and rants are the best medicine -wasn't that the original motto? So I am here to stay. Glad you had a good shopping trip - I have been holding off too but looking forward to hitting the shops when the new autumn lines come in . After my first BFN I treated myself to some skinny jeans - bit worried I looked a bit like mutton dressed as lamb but with a longish top to disguise the muffin top look I think they look OK. So good for you with your high heels.

Wanna - glad your husband has fertiliesed you and not a cow - hope his pipes are sufficiently clear now. Good luck with the next step.

Fee - hope your assistant gets her swim in some other time - were the dangerous conditions due to sharks? - it about time someone else got eaten for breakfast over there. Ladies, Fee lives in the great white's favourite Australian habitiat- wouldn't get me in the ocean over there. I swam in the bay yesterday - very safe - just had to avoid the litter floating in it. It was so crowded it felt like the Mediterranean.

Hi to PAtie and VIcky.

I am off to my first follie count tomorrow - he's seeing me after 5 days rather than 7 as I said I was nervous about the OHSS and particularly about my ovaries exploding a la Fee. Feel perfectly normal - so far so good.

Bye for now - enjoy the rest of your weekends.
A

[FionaA]

Ladies

How are we???

I'm teetering on the edge of insanity. This wait is killing me. Last time AF came 7 days after ET. I'm now at day 6 and worried as hell. I've spent the morning in bed with a sheet over my head quietly freaking out...This is much harder than the first time...

Ang, the swim was cancelled due to rough seas, we had some unseasonal rain and high winds, and given there are 2000 swimmers plus many support boats it was deemed too dangerous. I imagine my assistant will still be drowning her sorrows. No shark sightings lately, there was on a couple of weeks ago. I went down to the beach and found it deserted, didn't know that there had been a shark but decided not to swim because it was too windy, lucky me...Enjoy the sweltering weather - i'm sure it will be heading our way soon, and good luck on follicle count cant wait to hear your numbers...

Mia and Wanna I'll try to hold off on the HPT until the morning of the official blood test - when I know I will succumb just to prepare myself...

Mia sounds like you are buying up all the ginger in LV...hope it works for ya and you are feeling better pronto and Geez don't worry about the dishes, if things get real bad start using paper plates, I know it's not environmentally friendly but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Wanna congrats on the ferts, you guys must be over the moon. Glad to hear that DH's "relief" was so productive. I'm sure that the local livestock will also be relieved that he has had his needs taken care of. Have you frozen any yet and if so, how old are they??? No you can't call your child Anna Nicole, what was DH thinking????

Patie, you poor thing working 6 days a week? what have you done to deserve that??? I like your porshe idea....hopefully you won't need to go down that track though.

Vicky , welcome back, furry child must be ecstatic to have u back... and AF what a cow....I hate her and would like to beat her with a massive stick on your behalf. Glad you had a great cruise, I am damned jealous!!!

Sass, I couldn't be prouder. Your shopping trip brought tears to my eyes, way to go, FIVE pairs of shoes. I only know of one other person who has managed that in one go and I hang with some pretty serious shoppers. Well done girl! Have you been into Zara on the strip. I love Zara. I am also in the same boat, being stingy about buying clothes because I'm thinking I'll have to fork out for fat clothes soon.... my work wardrobe is appalling. And I love your SIL, what a legend, a truly understanding fertile....so hard to find. I just really love her. Definately winner of golden dildo cam. What is with those people on the other forums and why should prayer only work for them???? I say that they earn a group punter award for this week. Shall we let them know about their award???

Fee

[sassynlv]

Yep, the friendly neighborhood post-whore is checking in...

I just finished watching Grey's Anatomy. ooooo i don't think she dies... there is a saying in medicine... 'they aren't dead until they are warm and dead". You don't stop coding someone until their temp comes up (at least if there is any chance at all... and in her case, i don't see them giving up until she is "warm and dead"). And last i heard her temp was 81'.... too low. I'm thinking she is just having a near death experience. did bring back lots of memories having worked in the trauma unit in Denver .

Just for sh*ts... there was this one guy who came in one night i was on call at Denver General... found "down" in an alley unresponsive... looked to have a superficial stab wound to the chest. He crashed in the ED, my attending grabs a scalpel, cuts btwn his ribs and pries his rib cage open right there in the ER and we were sticking our hands in, throwing clots of blood out of his chest. The attg then pulled his heart out to examine the pericardium... and get this... i ain't kidding you... the guy wakes up! I look up and see him look at me, then at his heart sitting there, and he starts trying to yell (he was intubated) and sit up. AHHHHH. Someone grabbed his head and threw it down on the gurney and it took 6 people sitting on him to keep him from moving until he got some drugs. Soon after, his heart stopped again. We prepare him for the OR and i am kneeling on the gurney manually doing CPR with his heart in my hands as we go running up to the trauma OR... which should have been prepped w/an anesthesiologist and nurses waiting for us... but NOOOOOO. We go flying through the doors... and it is pitch black!!! No one had notified them . While transferring him to the OR table... i still have his heart in my hands... his breathing tube comes out (oh, lordy). Long story short (or at least shorter ), he survives the surgery. The next am, one of my residents asks him on our rounds if he remembers coming into the ED. He says he doesn't. Hmmmm... i'm thinking by now he probably has some pretty nasty nightmares about a bunch of doctors with his chest cracked open . Now that i have written this, know it has absolutely no resemblance to Grey's Anatomy. Oh well. oooo girls, i've got some stories i could tell

[sassynlv]

Ah hah HRH.... i missed you while reminiscing...

Yep, group punter award is in order. Oh, and I am biting my nails for you... don't have much left to bite... how many more days?!!! i know this limbo sucks. Kudos to you for waiting for HPT.

So did a little fashion show for dh tonight. he likes it when i do that... but truly i do believe the importance of all of this is lost on him. He did, though, seem to very much approve of the baby pink high heels i got... he seemed to be perusing my lingerie collection in his mind to find something they would go well with...

[patie]

hello lovely ladies... bisous to all

Well Sass... you made me laugh and cry at the same time. .. and you read my mind about not shopping for clothes... i mean i also stopped shopping for outfits and bought loads of shoes and bags... but can't wear those with out any clothe on... or can we?? hmmmm
i like your quote...very philosophical... and deep...
btw great rant... i mean with my 5 BFN.... i must be a big sinner
Dont count the food intake...just enjoy!!!
Btw loved that heroic story...are u a dr???

Wanna, great news...8 fertilised... yippee! your DH is so sweet to think that!!! they are cute arent they?? btw do they get to watch naughty things??? poor DH had to provide in the toilet

VICKY...welcome back... i am glad you had fun... but that shmuck AF... she's evil....

Angie, i will be waiting for u in Dubai...btw dont call me crazy! but yesterday i had trouble sleeping so i was thinking how it'd be nice to get together in a stilletos trip...girls only!!!! I think i need a break... DH will be away most of this month....and in april might go to washington... i am thinking of going with him cos my inlaws live in houston... so we'd visit them.

Mia...how are you lady??? eat and enjoy!!!! ...

HRH...Fee, i love Zara too.. i guess half of my closet is from there... they are just trendy and cheap...and have nice cuts... i can totally undertsand the 2ww agony...but dont give up.... hang in there babe!

Mego...how are you???

bby ladies... a bientot...(sorry i use french in my hellos and bby...but its a bad habit...typical lebanese...we use 3 languages in one sentence )

[meg12]

Wow, weekends are getting in my way of being online---need to get back to work where I have time to post random messages all day!

Sassy--I'm proud of the shopping trip. Pink heels, huh? You're living up to your name! And I agree that your SIL is a keeper--I wanted to give her a big hug for being there for you. She most be really special---most people without fertility issues just don't get it (as we all know!) MMMMMM, twinkies! I'm sitting here eating M&Ms like they're going out of style. Love M&Ms.

Fee--I'm glad you didn't go swimming in shark infested waters. We'd miss your royal butt! I feel like I'm back in the 2ww with you---hoping it goes fast...

Angie--You're more than welcome to come to Nebraska on your work trip, although I've got to admit it's not very exciting. Maybe I can just come to New York and see you there---more fun for everyone!

Mia--Hope the ginger continues to help. I've pretty much accepted the fact that I feel like holy crap most of the time. It's a small price to pay, I know, but I can't wait until I get past this stage. Someone told me there's an old wives' tale that if you're pregnant with a girl (or girls in your case!) you have more morning sickness verses a boy--interesting but probably totally false!

Vicky--Welcome back! We missed you. I can not believe the nerve of that AF. That sucks. But look at it this way--April cycle could mean a Christmas baby. That might be kind of cool! (You know, because there's nothing else going on that time of year!)

Patie--I'm in on the Sisterhood trip. That would be a blast. Either that, or we'd all meet in person and hate each other. Wouldn't that suck?

Wanna--I laughed so hard about your husband and the livestock. Wowsers, good line! And congrats on the fertilization!!!!! That's amazing. When are you doing the transfer? (You probably said, but I'm a space cadet and am too lazy to go back and look!!!!!!)

Well, I'm off to find something a little more nourishing than M&Ms to eat!

[FionaA]

Hi Ladies

Thanks for your good wishes. My fingernails are a gonner too Sass, chewed em as far as they can go... I'm feeling like going for a walk at lunch, it'll take all of my strength not to pop into the chemist and get an HPT.

And Sass, congrats on pink high heels, will you be wearing them to an appointment. I don't thing it's possible to be too well dressed at times like that ... and bloody hell your hospital story. Man I could never be a doctor, ambulance driver, police officer or anything else that needs to see gory stuff, that poor guy waking up and seeing his heart...he is so lucky he can't remember that...

Patie good idea for a Sisterhood meeting...Sadly with the present state of my credit card I will not be leaving the Commonwealth of Australia for quite some time. I only have myself to blame for that. They have a Zara in Dubai??? There's none in Oz, I always have to get my stuff from Overseas...

Mego, isn't work the perfect opportunity to lounge around this forum. If I keep this up I'll be back in next weekend to catch up on all the work I should be doing right now...

Hey to the other sisters. Thanks for keeping me sane (well sort of).

HRH

[Angie65]

A sisterhood trip - I like the sound that Patie- somewhere mutually convenient to US, Dubai and Oz - will probably be on a island in the middle of the ocean somewhere - as long as its tropical and has a pool bar I'm there!

Fee - do not buy an HPT and remember all symptons are drug induced and mean nothing. OK? ( just remind me of my own words of wisdom in a few weeks when i will have conveniently forgotten them). Hang in there matey. Buy a trashy mag and chocolate instead.

Dildo cam for me first thing - fastest viewing ever - blinked and I missed it. Dr D's ever helpful comments today were "Mmm yes lots of littlies". Given my past experience of hyper stim, not sure if this is good or bad. But another date on Friday may reveal more details - have only been going 5 days so far.

Better go to my meeting.
Helloto all.
A

[FionaA]

Thanks for talkin me down Ang...I'll go and by a Who or NW and a box of Maltesers I think....I wonder if Dr D means Antral follicles by littlies??? I had quite a few of those suckers.... What does meds are you on? I take it pretty low.

Fee

[patie]

Fee..i like how you think!!! maltesers...arent they the best!!! yum... and how about a nice theme song to keep you positive and away from the hpt... "eye of the tiger"(rocky)...just listen to the music....tin...tintintin...

a quick hello to alll... i will post personals later! but wanted to tell you that yesterday we watched the "cirque du soleil" w parents... did anyone see it??? its amazing... OMG... they r so flexible, bending and twisting while i was sitting on the not so comfy chair (my bootie hurts like what today)... but wow...

ok lovely ladies... tata

[sassynlv]

Wanna: yeah, i am a doctor... and no heroics on my part in that story. Love working trauma... but mostly when i could just follow what the trauma surgeon told me to do (med school and residency). Could never do that full time. Very exciting, but too stressful as i am not particularly decisive. I don't practice anymore... just do admin work. After a few yrs ttc... thought it was the stress from my job. so i quit and now just get paid to do not much of anything part time. When that didn't work, finally got some testing done... and here i am in ivf limbo...

Fee: HRH.... i admire your strength. Any lecturing i would do in regard to HPT would be horribly hypocritical . so i will just second what angie said...

Angie: hmmmm.... "littlies", huh? Not sure what to make of that. Ah, day 5 is i guess too early to get a real good idea of how many growing anyway... hoping though, that you are growing a nice crop of good size ones in there!

*** baby alert**

This is essentially the same as i am posting on Dec/Jan thread. One of my 10 mo old twin nieces was admitted to the NICU with RSV this am and they are having a hard time keeping her oxygen levels up (this is my sil of golden dildocam award fame). I spent most of the day watching my other nieces and nephews as bil was out of town at family funeral and was rushing to get back. got all pissed off at a nurse who informed bil that she "doesn't do" diapers. WTH???? Having been a nurse, you can imagine how well that went over with me . Anyway, just got home, and my dh has been quite ill himself for the last 2 days, so now i have to get him taken care of as i have been gone all day. May not be around much until niece out of NICU as will be working (yep, no holiday for me tomorrow ), watching over niece, taking care of dh, and babysitting nieces and nephews.

Best to all of you.. will check in when i can. Oh, btw.. managed to eat only one twinkie today (mostly due to the fact that i wasn't home to eat them ). The night is still young!!!

[Angie65]

what are antrals fee? they sound painful. I think he just meant they haven't started to grow much yet. This time I am one 112.5 gonal f compared to 187 last time - by dropping it right down hopefully I will avoid the hyper stim but at the same time grow a decent crop - it's a fine line I am balancing on here!

Patie - glad you enjoyed circque du soleil - it's great to escape like that sometimes - i must do more of that - melbourne is full of culture and the arts but we so rarely take advantage of it.

Enjoy those twinkies Sassy - what are they - I am sure I would like them - I just a devoured a kit kat chunky - mmm!

[wannababyIVF]

Hi Ladies!

Sassy—Your new nickname is superwoman, doctor, nurse, chef, baby sitter, auntie, expert show shopper, Twinkie eater, etc. lol Hope your DH and niece get better quick. I will be keeping you and your family in my prayers. Please keep us posted. Your trauma unit story was amazing. I don’t see how people do it. I would have been puking all over the place if I saw a human heart close up. Let alone hold it in my hand. I know I picked the right career of computers. Lol But it sounds so exciting. I’m sitting here now with Dh watching discovery health. This episode is about a little girl that was born without a face. OMG!!! The poor baby. It amazes me how happy and unaware of her situation that she is. Children are so resilient. She is just as happy as she can be. All of her organs are fully developed. It’s just her face that is deformed but it can be corrected. It’s such a blessing to have a healthy baby. Your sister in law is so sweet. She deserves the award. It’s so wonderful that you have someone like that in your corner. She really is a special woman. Tell her I said Thank You for sticking up for us. My first IVF failed and I know it had nothing to do with prayer. We go to church and pray every night for a baby. But I truly believe God doesn’t give you anymore than you can handle. Maybe he didn’t think it was time, after our first IVF. Everything happens for a reason. It just wasn’t our time.

HRH—How are you hanging in there? Have you taken the dreadful HPT? Hang in there. You can do it! We did not freeze any yet. I think we decide on the day or transfer if we want to freeze any. Last time we didn’t have enough to freeze. Maybe we will this time. I think it’s about $1000 to freeze and then a monthly or yearly charge after that. I guess I need to start researching it.

Patie—Yup, there was a television (with movies) and magazines in the room with DH. He even had the nerve to record one of the naughty movies on his cell phone. He brought it back to the room before I went in for the retrieval. I told you my DH has issues. lol All I could do was laugh. He said he wanted me to see. He said the movies were very corny. They were like 1980’s naughty movies. He said didn’t do much for him…Yeah right. We know better. You deserve a vacation sweetie. Go for it!

Angie—A pool bar! Love it. Where do I sign up! I will be praying that you do not hyperstimulate. As a fellow slight hyperstimulator..I feel your pain. Aw damn, that remind me. I totally forgot to weight myself this morning! Oh well, hopefully I have not gained 4 pounds in a day and am not hyperstimulating. Sounds like your doctor has everything under control by having you come in so often. Is he also taking blood test, each time? On day 5 (or was it 6, my memory sucks), I had lots of little ones. I think my biggest might have been 11 at that time.

Meg—I am an M&M lover! Are they plain or peanut. I eat both but the peanut are my absolute favorite. I had a package of the special valentines’ color M&M’s. I’m a sucker for a cute piece of candy.

Mia—Are the gingersnaps helping? I love gingerale. I drink it every day! I had to laugh at your comment about meeting in person and hating each other. That would be something. We are doing the transfer on Wednesday.

Nothing new to report here. Probably won’t have any news until Wednesday. On another note, I had an awesome massage today. I have a friend who is a massage therapist but have never received a massage from her. With everything going on right now and trying to keep my mind of IVF, I decided to give it a try. It was the greatest. It was an entire body massage with the hot stones and everything. It was so relaxing. I’ve decided to get another massage next Sunday. I might have to fit this into my budget at least twice a month.

[FionaA]

Hello all

Welll I worked out yesterday that there is no point in me using an HPT because I am on HCG injections every third day so right now I would get a false positive.... Still feeling all crampy and AF like...freaking me out!!

Ang, I couldn't remember what Antrals were so googled it. I think that they are just small resting follicles. When I was on stims I had quite a few big follicles but also a lot of small ones came up (which is not what they wanted), I spose if they are all around the same size that's a good thing. Dr D sounds quite calm about things. How is stimming going, are you starting to blow up yet??? Ah great memories. I think it is a pretty fine line to treat us PCOS girls, on my stim cycle I started on 75iui Puregon which did not cut it, they amped it up to 125iui (still a pretty low dose) and I overreacted....

Post whore Sass, we miss you. Hope DH and niece are OK and you are not too frazzled. Sucks when people get sick.

Wanna, when do you transfer??? Must be soonish right? are you going for 5 day blasts? Wow your DH got porn? We had to get DH's sample at home and then race it off to the clinic trying to keep it warm on the way. Cracked me up with him recording it on his phone. what a character.

Patie I've been wanting to see Cirque for ages but never got around to it, sounds fab...

Well I'd better be off and actually try to do some work today..

Fee

[meg12]

Fee--I'm still crampy so don't even think about that....It could be implantation or even gas (hee, hee!) I'm glad you realized that about the hcg---I think it's good to stay away from hpts. They are evil. Of course, after you get the good news, it's fun to take them---I don't know about you, but Lord knows I've taken my share of negative hpts over the years. I'm still tempted to do them, just to see the positive! (Sick, I know!)

Wanna--Your DH sounds like he's a crazy man. Don't you love a man with a good sense of humor? Man alive, your porn story had me rolling!

Vicky--Where are you? You go on a cruise and suddenly we're not good enough for you? Geez. (Just kidding--bet you have lots to catch up on...that's definitely the down side to taking a vacation!)

Okay, so I posted a ticker. If it bothers anybody, please let me know and I'll take it off. Someone had asked me about it, so I had some extra time today and did it. But honestly, I'm not in love with it or anything. I'll gladly ditch it if you want me to!

Sassy--So sorry about your niece. Hope everything is all right. We definitely miss you, though!