Have I really been such a slacker?

Honestly? No updates for a week? I really do suck...sorry to the two people who actually read this.

Yesterday I finished my final dose of Clomid, thank goodness! Why I can't get along with a few tiny white pills is beyond me, but we really aren't friends. (Side note: I keep looking for pharmacist McWhatthehell, but haven't seen him...is it possible that he got fired?) Now it's just the wait before starting the OPKs (ovulation predictor kits), or as I like to call it, the calm before the pee storm. See, a more normal person would take the tests once a day for a few days until they got a positive, then enjoy some intercourse, then get a positive pregnancy test and move on with life. Those of us in the broken insides club, get to take two tests a day for a week or so. "But that doesn't sound like a huge big deal." Did I mention that you have to hold your pee for 4 hours before taking the test? Oh, and it can't be the first pee of the morning either, and my doctor wants me to take the first one no later than 9am and the second one between 5-8 pm. So, do the math.

For those who hate math, basically my week of OPKs goes a little something like this. I'm supposed to start on cycle day 10...I never get a positive this early, but I tell myself to do it anyway since what if this is the one month it comes early. CD10 I set my alarm for 5 am in order to get up and pee. Fun already, no? Then I try to go back to sleep for a few more hours, but usually only get another 45 minutes sleep. When I am about to bust open at 9, I take the morning test: negative. Hey, at least I am free to pee now, right? WRONG! I have to start holding it again at no later than 2 pm...I think you see where I'm going with this. Spend a week of your life having to hold your pee for the better part of the afternoon. It's surprisingly annoying. Oh, did I mention that each test comes as a set of 7 and costs at least $25? This last IUI I spent roughly $55 on OPKs. Those are some pricey pee sticks!

Have I talked about pee enough for you? No? Awesome! Enjoy a pee story that has nothing to do with infertility. I don't worry too much about the holding it for 4 hours. It's annoying, but not impossible for me. I'm pretty much a camel and always have been. When I was 8 I was in the hospital with a pretty serious infection. After surgery to place drainage tubes, it seemed like all was getting better, but they wanted to do a CAT scan to make sure nothing had spread into bones or anything. Don't ask me, I was 8. So the scan takes about an hour and then I am laying in my hospital bed when the doctor comes in to tell me that, "The scan looks good...no areas we need to worry about...but...um..........do you need to use the bathroom?" I respond, "I don't feel like I do, why?" "Well," he says, "according to the scan, your bladder is full enough to be covering a good chunk of your hips. You sure you don't need to go?" I decide that I'd give it a go because, while I've been quite accurate in the past about this sort of thing, I'm no doctor. The fun thing is that the hospital has to keep track of everything, so they measured my pee. Why do I tell you that? Because it was over 850 cc worth. That is just shy of a full liter! What my uterus lacks in effort, my bladder more than makes up for in girth, even back then.

So today is cd8...two more until I become way too aware of my own pee.

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