Well I survived and can honestly say surgery #4 was my best surgery! Along with the one ginormous fibroid, my doc ended up finding and taking out 2 smaller ones as well. I mean hey, he was already in there so why not right?? The fact that the actual surgery went well is awesome but its not why I am so happy about it.. drumroll please!Continue Reading
Surgery #4 here I come..
Yes you read that correctly.. yours truly will be having her 4th surgery next week. ∗sigh∗ I’m still in a little bit of disbelief right now. But how did we get to this point? Lets go back and start the story from right after retrieval day..
(insert 90s sitcom flashback music 😛 )
After egg retrieval and the freezing of our potential offspring, they told me I should start feeling better in a few days as my hormone levels normalized. That sounded great! I was SO ready to go back to having normal human sized ovaries. Welllllll 4 days goes by andContinue Reading
I’m going to need more glitter for this update…
There is no easy way to start this one so I’m just going to jump right in.. after healing from the 3rd surgery, we have had 5 months of trying to get prego with fertility treatments. All unsuccessful.. obviously.. So we have now officially jumped on the IVF bandwagon. Our doctor is getting concerned that if we wait too much longer, my fibroids will start coming back in a way that will prevent pregnancy and the last thing I want to do is have surgery #4.
Over the past few days we have been telling our friends and family that we are starting prep for IVF and I got the same first questionContinue Reading
Here We Go!
If someone told me 2 years ago that I would be starting an infertility blog, I would have told them they were crazy. I am not anything close to a writer and typically follow my own set of rules for things like punctuation! Why in the world would I write a blog??
Well.. my husband and I began trying for kids in December 2015 and were thrown head first into the heartbreaking world of infertility. I was diagnosed with a severe case of fibroids, PCOS, and excessive bleeding. We never saw it coming and were not prepared for anything that was about to happen to us. But we had each other. So together we started on this insane adventure that began with a doctor telling us they needed to remove my uterus.
Our infertility journey is still Continue Reading