i've got bad plumbing

the frantic (in)fertility odyssey of a woman of 47 to get knocked up

Beta 2

beta 2 = 1.2 Not much else to say on this one. My WTF phone appointment is Tuesday at 12:30PM. I usually don’t bother with them … but this time I agreed to do one. I can’t imagine that there’s anything he can tell me that’s new save for, “Let’s do it again and this [...]

Posted on | March 6, 2010

Beta #2? Seriously?

Amazingly, my RE wants me to do a second beta to see, as the nurse put it, “if it’s going up or coming down”. Alrighty then. I was prepared to bring a bottle of red to my hair appointment today to drink with my hairdresser as she did my highlights and new cut. She’s has [...]

Posted on | March 4, 2010

The Day After Heartbreak

My site has been down for a few days so beta day came and went without a post. Since my last post on Sunday, any indication that I was pregnant disappeared with those stabbing cramps I hate late on Friday night. Swollen and tender breasts? Gone. Crampy uterus? Gone. Quantitative bHCG: 3 It’s clear as [...]

Posted on | March 3, 2010

Crash and Burn: On the Fringes of the Bell Curve

The call about my beta never came yesterday. I had to, in fact, call THEM at Dr. Z’s because my results were sitting around waiting for him to review them, THEN he would have to confer with the nurses, THEN they would call me. But by 3:30PM, I had it with waiting. I was a [...]

Posted on | February 16, 2006

Beta Day

The nurse at Dr. W’s phoned about an hour ago. (Dr. W is the urologist I saw last Friday when I was sure I was having another bout of UTI). The urine culture came back and it was totally negative. Not a thing grew in there. Wow. So the wild cramping I had on Wednesday [...]

Posted on | February 15, 2006

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