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Carmajo B's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 12/7/01 -------------------- 11/6/01 10/18/01 8/27/01 8/20/01 8/1/01 7/30/01 7/21/01 7/20/01 7/16/01 7/3/01 6/23/01 6/20/01 6/18/01 6/14/01 5/31/01 5/23/01 5/21/01 5/11/01 5/9/01 5/7/01 5/5/01 4/25/01 4/13/01 4/9/01 4/8/01 4/2/01 3/26/01 3/16/01 3/5/01 3/1/01 2/25/01 2/16/01 2/12/01 2/7/01 2/1/01 1/24/01 1/15/01 1/5/01 12/31/00 12/28/00 12/18/00 12/12/00 12/2/00 11/26/00 11/20/00 11/12/00 11/6/00 10/28/00 10/23/00 10/15/00 9/27/00 -------------------- Carmajo B's Introduction

November 12, 2000

Hello ladies!

I hope everyone has had a great week. I am on a sort of "mini" vacation. I have been off since Thursday morning and will not go back to work until Monday evening. I switched a day with a coworker so I will be working a day extra for her next week.

I finally ordered my monitor. I talked to the nurse at the doctor's office and she highly recommended using it. She told me they have a lot of patients using the monitors right now and they have had a lot of successful couples. I go back to him in four weeks for a referral to a RE. I am debating on whether I should just have him do the referral now and schedule the appointment because I am sure it will take weeks to get an appointment. I only have three doctors to choose from because my DH's insurance will only use preferred providers. Three doctors is not a lot to choose from considering two of them are in the same practice. Out of curiosity I think I better find out if these REs are even taking new patients right now. I never even thought of that until now.

DH and I had a very interesting conversation today. Today we went grocery shopping together and we ran into an old coworker of DH's. We just ran into this guy a few months ago and he asked Rob the same question again: "When are you two going to have a little one?" The last time it bothered Rob because that is personal and he just replied, "We're working on it". This time Rob just came out and told him we are having problems and so on. I could tell it bothered him. He actually brought up the topic of adoption, which really surprised me. I am still going to go the RE and keep trying on our own but we both think adoption is better suited for us instead of IVF, basically because adoption is guaranteed. My mother-in-law works at a fairly big hospital in the special care nursery and you ladies would not believe the infants put up for adoption. The majority of the infants go to Children's Services foster-to-adopt program. We are not picky, although DH would love a toddler just because he would like to skip the diaper stage. I am open to any age, hopefully under 5, any race or sex.

We had my in-laws over for supper last night. Rob bought a outdoor deep fryer to fry a turkey. He and his dad have wanted to try this for months. This was trial run Thanksgiving dinner and it turned out great. Between the five of us we ate a nine pound turkey and now I have the mess to clean up. I was really lazy and left the dishes for this morning.

I don't know how to put this question so if it sounds awful, I am sorry! I have two sister-in-laws with three kids a family and my sister has two sons. My dear sister-in-law told me the other day that my mother-in-law told her that she had a dream "someone" was pregnant and she was hinting maybe it was me. I kind of snapped at her and said, "Well, it is not me, I am on my period, so it must be you." I feel really bad about how I said it but I think in the back of my mind she might be trying to find an easy way to tell me she is pregnant. I would try my hardest to be happy for them and I would dearly love this niece or nephew if she was pregnant. Do any of you gals find yourself being jealous? I hate feeling like that but it is HARD! I think part of my emotions are due to good old AF but really that is no excuse!! Am I the only person who feels this way???

Well, I better end this diary entry now before I start ranting and raving!!! Lots of luck and hugs to everyone!!!

Carmajo