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Jerri's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 7/10/02 -------------------- 6/27/02 6/18/02 6/11/02 6/3/02 5/21/02 5/17/02 5/15/02 5/7/02 5/2/02 4/29/02 4/12/02 4/11/02 4/5/02 3/22/02 3/12/02 3/11/02 3/8/02 2/28/02 2/26/02 2/22/02 2/1/02 11/15/01 10/2/01 9/10/01 8/28/01 8/17/01 7/23/01 7/11/01 7/4/01 7/1/01 6/25/01 6/11/01 5/23/01 5/22/01 5/9/01 5/1/01 4/18/01 4/3/01 3/26/01 3/20/01 3/16/01 3/8/01 3/2/01 2/25/01 2/19/01 2/11/01 2/4/01 1/31/01 1/25/01 1/13/01 1/6/01 1/2/01 12/25/00 12/20/00 12/14/00 9/27/00 9/19/00 9/13/00 9/6/00 8/29/00 8/23/00 8/16/00 8/8/00 8/2/00 7/16/00 7/4/00 6/28/00 6/19/00 6/14/00 6/7/00 6/5/00 5/31/00 5/23/00 5/18/00 5/9/00 4/26/00 1/24/00 -------------------- Jerri's Introduction

May 23, 2000

Here I sit, not knowing what is going on this month. It seems that I say that every month about this time. I am getting very frustrated with the old AF. As it is right now, I spend a week with AF, then I have a good week where I feel well. Then, the next week, AF starts sending waves my way again. The swollen, sore boobs and the zits come really early. Then, before I even turn around, my lower back is hurting and bam, AF is a day or so away.

I have rescheduled my endometriosis surgery for June 30 and, baring any major catastrophes, I am having it this time. Rodman will be covered under insurance June 1 and he asked me to make him an appointment with an urologist so that he can be checked out and have another SA by the time I have my surgery. Then, as soon as the surgery is over and I have recouped, we are going to try harder than ever. I am going to take Clomid again so that I can start O’ing again and hopefully we will have some answers about him.

It sure would be nice to get PG before we have to endure this craziness, but I guess it just isn’t meant to be. I look around and see PG women and women with infants and it really makes me want a child. Then, once I realize that Rodman is looking, I start to feel sorry for myself because I haven’t been able to get PG just yet.

We are trying to prepare ourselves so that if I am fine after the surgery, but he has some issues, then we can have an IUI. Hopefully, things won’t come to that but, if so, we are trying to prepare ourselves.