It's been awhile since I've posted. The end of last year got pretty hectic for us. In October we put on our annual Gordon Haunted House where we seriously spooked more than 500 people! We're very excited about the expansion of our once small expirement which has now grown to be a haunted house of over 2000 square feet through our property! We spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with our family-November brought a visit from my cousin Sarah and her husband Isaiah for Thanksgiving.
At the end of October, I decided I would be taking the last of the horomones and Clomid. Nothing had worked for us up to this point and I really just felt like my body needed a reset perhaps. It would be nice to not have to stress about the meticulous charting and marking of the calendar. Mid November, I was talking with my brother's fiance Monique (who should be having their baby any day now!) and she didn't have a shortage of nicer things to say about her doctor. I had looked up their information and decided to go in for a second opinion.
The doctor I had been working with previously had been less than responsive. I would send her detailed recounts of how my cycles were going to which she would respond that we would see how next cycle went. I was getting frustrated that she wasn't checking my levels, I had only received two ultrasounds during the five cycles of Clomid, and was just overall unresponsive. When I simply stopped writing her providing her with updates, that was that and I just simply never heard from her.
I needed someone who was going to be more proactive.
Beginning of December, we went in for an appointment with Doctor Gordon (yes, same last name =) ) We talked about what I had been through previously, took a look at my charting, etc. She suggested bloodwork to start on specific days during my cycle. This, was already more than I had experienced with my last doctor. My cycles had defaulted back to their original sporadic timing despite the Progesterone discipline over the last year so this new doctor had me start taking Progestin-this time a synthetic form of Progesterone. That got things moving again, and I am now just shortly after the first blood test I was instructed to do...Mid January, I will go in for the second round and then hopefully we'll have some answers.....
That's all for the baby journey update for now. Among other things, Sean and I had a bout of less than unfortunate luck at the end of 2014. (I find that actually a lot of people had a very difficult ending to last year) On Sean's birthday we came home that evening to our ceiling "bubbled" up. "SHIT" we thought. What is going on? We had just experienced some pretty heavy rainfall (though quite insignificant in comparison to what the news stations were predicting-but a lot of rain nontheless considering we've been in a drought) and now our ceiling looked like it might have decided to take on an excess of water to make up for the dryness. (Way to overcompensate Home..)
It turns out, not only did we have some serious roof leakage around the AC unit on the roof, but we had also had a pipe burst in our attic. Wonderful. The insurance company that we're with has been less than helpful. I've never been more disappointed by a lack of communication in my life. You know when a nasty rumor spreads in high school and the situation becomes so overwhelmed with he said, she said and seriously lacking in actual FACT? Yeah, it's kind of like that. Anyway, long story short, we were left with crazy loud dehumidifiers that didn't work, dried out our Christmas tree, and left our wood flooring in the kitchen warped (for which the company replied that there was no problem at all) and are currently having our kitchen walls and ceiling knocked out completely. Awesome.
The good news is that we have my baby niece arriving any time soon! I'm hoping that this year brings new beginnings and and promise. My goal for this year is to push my optimism to new limits. I have a way of letting certain thing get me down and have a hard time fighting my mind that certain things are possible. Sean and I are a good team. I believe we're tested with adversity and that it's the down times in life that help us appreciate the good ones.
Happy New Year =)
