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Laura K's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 1/22/02 -------------------- 1/16/02 1/10/02 1/6/02 12/23/01 12/22/01 12/15/01 12/6/01 11/24/01 11/23/01 11/22/01 11/14/01 11/8/01 10/16/01 10/8/01 9/26/01 9/19/01 9/14/01 9/10/01 9/5/01 8/22/01 8/13/01 8/7/01 8/3/01 7/31/01 7/25/01 7/16/01 7/9/01 7/3/01 6/30/01 6/26/01 6/19/01 6/11/01 6/4/01 5/29/01 5/22/01 5/16/01 5/5/01 4/29/01 4/21/01 4/10/01 4/2/01 3/28/01 3/20/01 3/12/01 3/5/01 2/28/01 2/20/01 2/15/01 2/12/01 2/5/01 1/30/01 1/24/01 1/16/01 1/8/01 1/2/01 12/19/00 12/11/00 12/5/00 11/26/00 11/20/00 11/14/00 11/5/00 10/30/00 10/22/00 10/15/00 10/7/00 -------------------- Laura K's Introduction

October 22, 2000

Hello!

I hope this entry finds everyone doing well. Congrats to Marianne and any other recent PG'ers out there. Sprinkle some of that baby dust our way!

My week started out rough but ended well. I got a really bad sinus infection. I get them quite often and usually just wait them out, but this one scared me because I was having extreme headaches and dizziness, which I have not experienced before. I took a sick day (which I hate to do) and went to the doctor (which I hate to do even more). He put me on antibiotics even though he knows I'm TTC, because he said that this early in my cycle, a week of antibiotics wouldn't hurt me. Maybe that's the only good thing about my cycles being so long! I'm feeling a lot better now, the pressure in my head has subsided and I'm not dizzy so much anymore. It does make you think about the fact that when you're TTC or PG, you have to be careful about EVERY decision you make that pertains to your body. I've been taking vitamins and have cut my caffeine (which was no easy task), but it really just sunk in that when you're PG you just have to suffer through most ailments that everyone else would take meds for.

Of course, since I was feeling crummy I ignored my grading for the week, which adds up when you teach English and have 140 students! Combine this with the fact that I have a midterm in my grad. class on Wednesday, and I'm one very busy girl! Of course, I didn't even do half of it during the weekend. I felt it was more important to have a girls' night out with a friend of mine and clean my house, both of which made me feel better. So much for priorities! After church today I plan on getting a lot of work done.

On the TTC front, I'm on CD11 and still at a standstill in my cycle. The bad thing about having such long cycles is I feel like I have to wait FOREVER to O and begin the BD fest! I realize that I am lucky to O in the first place, and it's not that I am ungrateful. It's just that I am so impatient about waiting for that point in my cycle where something is actually happening! I have started taking Robitussin and bought an OPK this month, so we'll see if we can time things right. Until then, I'm just hanging out and waiting.

++++ thoughts to everyone. Have a great week!

Laura