The end of July is here already...where has the summer gone? The last week has been pretty eventful. Wednesday morning I had another follow-up appointment with Dr. Dudley (the RE). We talked about what my options are since I won't be able to get into the neurologist he wants me to see until October. I was excited to find out that he's going to let us get started on some treatment!! Finally after 10 months of waiting we will hopefully be making some progress soon. After talking to him I was slightly taken aback by his decision. He told me with my hormone levels so low, I wouldn't respond to oral medications so he wanted to start us directly into injectibles and IUI (intra uterine insemination). Luckily he said we wouldn't have to go straight into an IUI though and we could try 'naturally' with the injectibles for a couple months. Considering the cost of the medications and IUI this was a relief...and neither of us felt like we were ready to jump that far into treatment yet. So I had some more bloodwork done and they told me they'd get back to me within 24 hours. Needless to say by Friday morning I still hadn't heard back from them so I gave them a call. The nurse left me a message when I was at work that said the dr. wanted to call me personally with the results...so I was a little freaked out by this!! And of course he didn't call me Friday so I had to wait all weekend for what he had to say..but I finally got the call this afternoon and he had some good news..my hormone levels have increased since my last blood work!!! So instead of going straight into injectible medications he wants me to start on 100 mg. of Clomid and to make things even better he had the prescription called in and I start my first dose tonight!! I will go back to the office a week from Wednesday for a follow-up appointment and another ultrasound. So we're praying that this will work and we won't have to go into any stronger medications or treatment.
After the doctor appointment, Andy and I went to visit my friend Keren and her new baby Norah that finally arrived the night before!! So we stopped by the hospital and I held the baby while we visited with Keren and Steve (and Steve's parents). Norah is sooo precious and tiny :) CONGRATS Keren!! I will upload some pictures as soon as I get my camera back!
Wednesday night we went over to our friend's Brad and Katie's for a bbq and some games. Brad made us some delicious mojitos and I had a few too many..but we had a great time hanging out with them and Lindsey and Chris. We played Apples to Apples and Guitar Hero :) We decided we definitely need to hang out with all of them more often!!
Sunday was another busy day. Andy's parents flew in for the day. Since I had worked till 2 a.m. Saturday night, Andy and Jon got up and picked them up, then came back to get me before we went out to do something. We took them up to Seattle and walked around the waterfront and Pike's Place. Then we had lunch at Red Robin which was delicious, as usual! :) After Seattle we decided to stop at the new and improved Southcenter/Westfield Shopping Center in Tukwila. They had the grand re-opening this weekend with like 80 new stores and several restaurants! Unfortunately there was an insane amount of people, so it was too crowded to enjoy the shopping and I was pretty tired from my lack of sleep anyways. After the mall Andy's parents were pretty tired, as were we, so we dropped them back off at the airport to try to get an earlier flight and headed home.
We got home and relaxed for a bit before heading over to my best friend Katie's parents house to visit her twin sisters that are both in town from Alaska and England!! It was great to see both of them again, as usual it's been way too long! We hung out and visited and watched everyone sing karaoke before we came home and called it a night!
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