Surgery!!!

I'm going to have endo surgery!!!!!  WHOOOOO HOOOOO!  

Yep, I am WAY TOO excited about the possibility of surgery!  The things IF will do to you!

I had a great appointment this afternoon with my fertility guy, Dr. G.  Doug and I met with him to discuss all my messed up female parts.  Dr. G, Doug and I all agree it's time to get this baby making show on the road!  Nothing has happened in the almost 2 years we've been married and now that my weight is at a good place, it is time to move forward.  Hearing that was music to my ears!

We had been in a waiting pattern as far as fertility surgery, meds, etc. this year due to my surgery last December.  It would have been fine if we had gotten pregnant on our own (ha!), but Dr. G really wanted to wait to do surgery for my endo until I was almost or at 1 year post-op from my gastric bypass.

I have been having so much pain lately, it is almost unbearable.  I wake up in the night from pain.  I have trouble getting out of bed because of the pain.  It's there all the time and it's getting worse.  I have a gut feeling the majority of the pain is from my right ovary being stuck to my abdominal wall.  Ouch.  It's in a very specific spot and Dr. G agreed that that is most likely the cause of the worst pain as well.  However, to be safe, we are doing a repeat CT scan next week to make sure nothing else is causing this pain.  If the scan is clear, then he will schedule surgery ASAP!  Whoot!!

I'm beyond excited.  I literally did a little conga line dance out of the office.  I think Doug was a little embarrassed and I have no idea what the people in the waiting room were thinking.  He he.

I know this might not be the fix we need to conceive, but it feels like it is a step in the right direction.  I sometimes am filled with SO MUCH HOPE about conceiving and then I will remember that one tube is totally blocked, one is partially blocked, I'm not great at ovulating and I have endo all over.  Then I am SO LOW.  This can all occur within a matter of minutes.  It's crazy.  After surgery, surely some of this up and down anxiety will be lessen.  He will be removing endo, unsticking (that's my technical term for it) my ovary from my abdominal wall, delicately flushing out my tubes and opening them and removing any adhesion's that I have.  How could this not help??  At the very least, I'm hoping for some pain relief.  And in all honesty, I really am hoping for much much more!

This Thankful Thursday (really Wednesday) is...

Dedicated to Hebrews!!!  WHOOO HOOOO!

What am I thankful this week???

A BFP for my great friend!!!!  I was just smiling and smiling all day just thinking about how happy she and her DH must be!!  Woozers!  As down as I can feel when I hear a pregnancy announcement, hearing one from a fellow (now former) IFer is SO DIFFERENT!  I AM BEYOND ELATED!!!!!!!

Someone else is pretty psyched too!!  Congratulations Hebrews!!

Thankful Thursday!

Rebecca over at The Road Home is doing Thankful Thursdays!  I love reading what she is thankful for... so I thought I'd steal the idea and give it a try.  Click on the icon to see what she is thankful for!

1.  I am thankful for this man.  He is my everything and more than I ever dreamed of having.  I'm thinking it might be time to do a separate, "Why I love my Husband" post soon!

2.  I am thankful for the wonderful gift of marriage and so thankful that my parents have been such wonderful examples.  They have been through it all: the Vietnam War, infertility, for richer and poorer, living in several states, starting over again and again, illness, having some rebellious kids (well one - and it's not me!), deep pain and heartache and growing old together.  If they can get through all that and more... they are the bomb!  Love them!

3.  I am thankful for protein! LOVE IT!  Bet you didn't see that one coming, huh??

4.  I am thankful for my fenced in back yard.  We got the fence after we had had Daisy a few month and it is wonderful!  Granted, we still have to supervise her out there or she will eat rocks and sticks and mud, but it still rocks my world!  I'm also thankful for these two in the fence.  They are so cute!

5.  I am thankful for my godson Leo, even if he does have the most distinctive baby hair ever.  Hehe.  Love him. 

6.  I am thankful for great friends.  Here is am with Deacon Dominic.  He's going to make an amazing priest next year!  I am also thankful for all my friends who love love love Big Brother like I do.  You know who you are!

7.  I am thankful that I get to play hide-and-seek with this little pup.  She is not that good at the game.

SO MUCH FOR ME TO BE THANKFUL FOR THIS WEEK!

See ya later!

First... Thank you for all your kind thoughts and prayers last week.  It was not a great week, but I felt lifted up by all your thoughts and prayers.  They are so appreciated!!  I just kept reading the comments and eventually the tears stopped!  Thanks ladies... you are the best!!

Second... I had ONE goal for this weekend:  Clean out the bedroom closet!  It was getting all messy and I could not take it a minute longer.  I could not find a thing and there were piles of clean clothes all over the place ready to be put in the messy closet... but there was no room!

It was also time to say See Ya Later to my second round of fat clothes and trade them in from skinnier fall clothes!   Whoot!!!  Whoot!!  Whoot!!  Man, I had a lot of clothes, including hot pink work out pants!  Not sure what I was thinking when I bought those!

See ya later second round of clothes!! I will not miss you!

A recent progress pic.

Last summer ..............................................This summer!

Just for fun... Me and my loves.  

Doug is actually in the car too, you just can't see him.  He he. 


One more progress picture... but of my little pup this time.

She is growing at lightening speed... and I love it!