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Michelle - well thats good that you got refunded from your IUI's i am waiting on my RE to reimburse me for 2 u/s from the original diagnosis of the hematoma. I had to ask them to submit it to my insurance company so hopefully we will getting 500.00 back pretty soon. As for your question regarding ER that is considered day 0 or ovulation day or when you are pregnant that will be your day of conception they will not go by you LMP. Also the transfer will be from the day after the retreival that will count as day 1 so 3 to 5 days from the day after the retrieval.

Robyn--Thanks for starting a new thread. :) New thread, new month! Thanks! I really should get some updated pics of my "small" doggie though. Ones that show him in his full splendor. It's nice to have faces to names, huh? I still haven't looked at your all's pics yet, but I have this definite mental image of you, I'm dying to see if it checks out. You can keep calling me Mega. Yay on the hemotoma refund from the u/s too. That's great. Nice windfall. Going towards baby furniture perhaps? Tink (Michelle)--And yay on your $700 credit too. That'll come in very handy. Yes, my clinic counted the ER to ET the same way as Robyn's. I had a blast tx. My ER was on a Thurs., my blast tx was the following Tues. They like to confuse us I think. :) I'm totally biased, but yeah I think bullies are pretty sweet doggies over all. He was the runt of the litter we think. Usually runts catch up & end up as big or bigger than the breed standard, not ours though. Jenae--Thanks! I'll pass the compliment on to my doggie. He'll get a complex though, I fear. Inflated ego, you know how men get, neutured male doggies included. :)

DCL--Okay, I had to re-read your post first before responding on this new thread. :) Gets complicated! Yeah, I can definitely see why you wouldn't want to trust your boss with something so personal. Too bad he can be such a gossip with important things like health issues. People who haven't really had much experience w/ fertility issues do tend to ask for lots of updates. I was pretty open with a lot of people, so I got a ton of update requests which though you know they care, can still get annoying. So not telling your work friends might be a good idea. But then it might be nice to have someone who knows what's going on. Would she understand if you explained that you'd rather share details on your own timeframe, & not to mention it unless you wanted to talk about it? Just a thought. Oh the Follistim pen. Loved that device! I didn't find Follistim shots painful at all. Anyway, It's great that you have 3 tries covered. I tried to get my DH to move to Boston last summer. He didn't go for that idea though. LOL! Keep in mind though, there's a good chance you'll have at least a few frozen embies left over from 1 or 2 or maybe all 3 cycles. So if God forbid it doesn't work w/in the 3 tries timeframe, paying out of pocket for FETs are much cheaper than fresh cycles. I've got my fingers' crossed that it doesn't take nearly that many tries for you though. Hopefully here soon we will all be eating pickles together! JB, the quads will love crunchy dill pickles!!!

BARZEE- I am tearing up thanks to that wedding clip of yours, sooooooooooooo BEAUTIFUL!!!! ROBYN & MICHELLE are getting money back, hmmmm... you guys love me, right?!! What's a little money among friends?!!! LOL!! MEGA_ LOL about your doggie!

Darn you MEGA!!! Don't get me started!! LOL!!! ROBYN is rubbing off on you! LOL!!

Mega I should have made this thread part 1 i feel stupid if you wanna restart we can. I forgot it was a new month and then i started noticing everyone was starting February threads and i thought crap i made this part 3 instead of part 1 oh well. Anyway i sworn youve seen my pics they were of the wedding Jason promised this weekend we are putting up the new pics of the u/s the house and so on. I also pictured you different so i am curious to what you think that i look like. JANAE - my love my life.... i aint even working right now i am gonna take all the money i can get!! I have given up my manicure pedicure every 2 weeks this is killing me. But hell i am just lying here like a dead person anyway who am i gonna impress all day 4 cats and a jar of pickles?? I am thinking maybe in March i will go back but i am not going back till this blood thing is gone like i have said before my job is very stressful and i cant handle that kinda stress right now. So i will give up luxuries to make it easier on my hubby who expected me to not be working anymore in August not planning on January but shit happens. Oh I also cryed at Barzee's wedding video it was the music that started me i couldnt finish the video. You all would pee in your pants if you saw my wedding ceremony we hired a rabbi that was so funny he had people in tears we wanted someone who had a crazy sense of humor like us ( if you couldnt tell) and made everyone laugh so it worked.

DCL- i am doing follistim as well and Menopur. follistim is so easy! i did it with IUI twice. that is great you get 3X. this one try might be the end of the road for us, since my insurance doesn't cover it- i don't know anyone here in TX that gets it covered. i even work for a defense contractor, so we have great benefits, but no fertility. i don't know where to go if our first IVF doesn't work. grandpa sent us an $11k check to be able to do this first time, i don't know that I can ask him for more and we would have to save up to try again on our own. so i am putting all my eggs in this first attempt basket. at the very least, i am hoping we have embryos leftover to freeze. at least we could afford a FET later on our own. so it is very scary to me if this does work. i don't know what we will do next. i am not going to have a plan in place even, we will just cross that bridge when we get to it. ROBYN- thanks for the info on the timing/days. that makes sense. i am just trying to guesstimate all the possibilities for what kind of time off i'll need for that week. My boss is open to letting me have what i need, so that is good. i know i am blessed at least in that regard, even though i am not in the insurance area. lol i was hoping to have either the ER or ET near a weekend, so i can use that time in bed. i just can't imagine I'll be on the stims for more than 7 days. I respond pretty well based on past experience. Poor JB- you guys stop giving her a hard time about quads etc. lol! my friend teases me about having 3. it drives my Dh crazy. :) well had my acupuncture session, it went well- she did more spots this time. it was so relaxing. i am going twice next week- apparently during stim week it helps more to go twice. whatever it takes. i could use a nap now though! you guys are making me hungry for pickles now too.

Michelle - Janae lives for torture shes actually having Octuplets. I think we are up to 8 at this point. LOL

Michelle--Yeah, start chowing down on pickles now! :) That sucks how many companies don't offer fert. benefits. Once the big bosses start experiencing this first hand, maybe things will start changing. Yeah & I agree with Robyn, Janae loves being teased about the litter she'll be producing! We keep her on her toes. Right Janae? Oh & yeah, what if I rubbed off on Robyn? Hmmm?!!! LOL!!! Giving her all the credit. Geez! Where's the love I ask you?! Robyn--Hey, cats are harsh critics! I'm sure they've observed your lack of manis/pedis. LOL! J/K. No sweat about the part 3 thing. It doesn't matter at all. How'd you picture me? The short redhead thing always throws people off though, for some reason they never seem to picture me that way. Oh well. Oh I can't wait to see your u/s pics too. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen your wedding pics. I'd have remembered if I did. I've got to find someone with a scanner. My My Space page needs some pics of my wedding I think. We had a Vegas Wedding in 2004. And besides the non-denomination preacher, Elvis also helped "officiate." Seriously! That was my DH's 1 requirement if we did a Vegas wedding. It would have to be "traditional," IE with Elvis. He just sang a couple songs, posed for a few pics & then gave me his scarf. This was the skinny elvis. DH wants fat Elvis if we ever renew our vows.

Barzee, how are you feeling today? I hope your dr gave you some much needed reassurance today at the appt. KB--How are you doing? How's your partner holding up? Cmel--How are things on the follie front? Lots of big guys?

I pictured you with black or dark hair thats really the only thing that i was sure you had dont know why. Mega here is my site http://grimmreapergirl.spaces.live.com/

Well nature gave me dark hair, Robyn, LOL. So you weren't totally wrong. I gave me red hair. :) I'll check out your pic now. I see you with red hair, for some reason.

Aish--I just saw your post from the other day that you're going for beta tomorrow. GOOD LUCK sweetie! Pulling hard for you. Cramping is one of those signs that go either way. It could be a good sign. Hang in there!

Thanks TINK!!! I knew somebody loved me! LMAO!!! MEGA & ROBYN are on a roll today, huh?! That's ok!! I'll eventually go on and manage to calm down! :-(

And I was right Robyn, you do have reddish hair. :) I'm very often wrong on those impressions but I got the redhead vibe from the get go. Wonderful pics. You are a beautiful bride. And your neice, she's adorable. And Anthony, oh his smile! What a cutie he is! Um do you have a thing for westerns? LOL! I sort of got that impression. So is Doc Holiday AKA Asshole kitten?

Aw c'mon, Janae, you know we love ya! We tease you b/c we love you. Can't you feel the love radiating to the Big Apple?!!!