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May 11, 1999


It has been an interesting couple of days. Saturday was College Day at the the college we live in. We went through a special service at the cathedral, we even had to process down the aisle in academic gowns! It was very cool, and we got to see some of the other rooms in the cathedral that are usually closed to the public. Because this college is partly dedicated to The Venerable Bede, we all (I mean all the students and all of us staff people) gathered around Bede's tomb for part of the service and sang and all the tourists were peeking in the door of the Galilee chapel where he is buried and wondering what we were all doing. In case you would like to picture in your heads what Durham Cathedral looks like, you can rent the movie Elizabeth. The room we all gathered in before we processed is the one in which she stood down the Bishops. The Galilee Chapel is the one she stands in at the end with her face painted white before she goes out to meet the court. And where we sat for the service itself is just below where they filmed the coronation scene. I don't know that Elizabeth ever actually came to Durham, but the palace where she actually lived was torn down a few centuries ago, so I guess they figured the cathedral would do, and it is really magnificient.

Unfortunately though, I caught a bad cold on Friday. My acupuncturist did a few things to make it a little better but on Saturday I made it through the service, blowing my nose though every hymn, and then made it through the fancy lunch, and then had to go home to be while everyone did all the fun sports things. I meant to go back for the ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) which is a big tradional dance, really really fun (so fun we had one at our wedding), but I just couldn't make it. Then on Sunday I felt better so a friend and I went to check out a new gym that has just opened near us, with some free day passes, and I felt so good that I way over did it, and spent all of yesterday asleep. And I mean asleep. I walk with this same friend at 7:15 every morning and I got up and walked and had breakfast and then came home and thought I would take a little nap and woke up at 2:00 pm!! Oh well. I felt fine, just tired.

So now I am just waiting for my GYN appt. next week. I am really nervous about it. I am always so down the day after doctor's appointments and the last time I saw the GYN was worse than my GP usually is. I don't want to look forward to this and then have it be a big disappointment. And I can think of so many ways it could be disappointing. They could refuse to give me clomid, or give it to me and not monitor me on it. They could completely disbelieve me again. I am starting to get worried about leaving my PCOS totally untreated for too long now too. My mustache is getting darker, and I am getting black hairs on my left breast again, even though I had them all removed years ago. I am so worried that this long wait will have made things worse for me. I read the article on Pregnancy Today about people being pg far from home, and the bit about the UK was right on target. If I could get pg here I would get excellent care. I could have a home birth, they do vaginal deliveries of breech babies, the pg care is wonderful. Unfortunately though, the IF care SUCKS. So whether I will ever get to the pg stage in the next 16 months, or even will feel like I have given it a good shot, is really debatable.

One final thing though: My temps are being very weird. About three or four weeks ago, I changed my vitamin regimen and my temps dropped from averageing around 97.1 to averaging around 96.3. They have stayed down like that the whole time, even going as low as 95.8. Then on Sunday, it was 96.9 and the same on Monday, and today it was 97.3. I don't check CM anymore so I don't know if I could have O'd, but I have had some slimey TP (sorry so graphic). The thing is I have run out of one of the Chinese herb things that I was taking and am not going to keep taking them. So if my temps went down because of those herbs, they could have gone up because of them too, right? I have never had three high temps in a row, but I can't believe that I could have O'd. We would have totally missed it of course because I have been sick, but...

Well, I won't get my hopes up (less and less possible these days anyway) but I will keep you all posted.



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