Come on January

I know I have been MIA for a while but I have been busy. First they told me I had Diabetes and then 8 days later they called and said “Oops. The test results were wrong, you’re not diabetic”. I’m not going to mention the boatloads of money I had already spent on the blood test, the doctor’s visits, the medication and the testing materials. Also the panic they put me and my family through. The only good thing that has come out of this is mine and Wilson’s decision to stick with the diet and the workouts. I am trying to walk for at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week along with watching what we eat. We usually have one cheat day a week and that is my favorite day!! Yesterday I went to Dr. Rodriguez (baby doctor) again and found out that I have lost 7 pounds so far. That certainly made the treadmill time easier to handle today.
So I mentioned yesterday was baby doctor day. I called in sick to work and Wilson and Bev and I went and ran around all day long. Going to my doctor’s appointment with her there kinda made things difficult but she just thought I was up there getting my diabetes checked again. Anyway, Dr. Rodriguez said we can go ahead and get started, once they find me a good replacement to my blood pressure medicine. The bp meds that Dr. Geip (the diabetes dr) put me on are HORRIBLE. They give me Parkinson’s like syndrome and I am NOT living that way. It is scary and not necessary. Also he wants me to continue to take the Metformin he gave me for the elevated sugar levels. This is my thinking on that – if I don’t have diabetes why do I need to take diabetes medication. Besides that this medicine makes me SICK. If I do not have something on my stomach I feel like I could pass out. I don’t know if it’s making my blood sugar drop too low or what. I called them today and they said I can take 3 pills a day instead of 4. Oh, wow thanks doc. I have an appointment with him on the 30th and I think after that we are done with him. I have been told the Metformin will help with getting pregnant, not sure how – something to do with the ovaries or something. I need to do a bit more research on the subject.
Anyway, back to the baby situation. He said that once I get my blood pressure medicine together we can get started. That would bring us into December. Well guess what – they take a break in December and don’t do any egg retrievals!! It’s that nice. I wait 13 months to get to this point and they take a break!! Seriously. So now we are set up for the first week on January for and IUI. (Intrauterine insemination).
First I will go on Letrazole for a few days, then they will do what they do and 14 days later we take a pregnancy test. Now, here is the bad news. It’s expensive. Here is the worse news; it only has a 10% chance of working!!!!!
That’s not a great percentage but we are going to pray and if you would all pray for us that would be greatly appreciated. We are keeping our fingers crossed!!

Type 2

Dang, October was a crappy month!!!!
We went back to the baby doctor on Tues., Oct. 27th. I thought we were going to get started on some fertility treatments or something like that, you know – get this process moving along. Well, not so much. We found out I have Type 2 Diabetes and I have to loose about 50 lbs and have my blood sugar under control before they will even start seeing us again. I understand it because if I’m not healthy how can I possibly have a healthy baby but I sure don’t have to like it.
I have to watch my carbs – which I have discovered is all I eat and work out 5 times a week. I went to see a specialist on Thursday (10/29) and he knows that I want to get pregnant and that I am trying to put this on the fast track so hopefully that will help. As soon as the new Dr gives me the go ahead Dr Rodriguez (the baby doctor) will start to see us again. I am watching everything I eat and walking at least 30 minutes a day. I test my blood sugar a couple of times a day and it’s always normal. I am hoping they made a mistake but it doesn’t really matter I need to get all this extra weigh off of me anyway. Wilson is doing this with me. He has switched from Dr. Pepper to Diet Dr. Pepper and he HATES it. LOL It’s not the greatest thing in the world for sure. This is not going to be easy but the hope of a growing family keeps me motivated. I found out today a girl in my office is pregnant so maybe seeing her everyday will actually help me. Who knows. I just gotta find all new foods to eat and none of them I like but oh well, they never said life is easy and none of us are going to get out alive.