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May 9, 2001

I made my trip home for my mom's eye surgery. She was very happy I was there and we got along wonderfully, I was glad that I decided to go. Of course she already wants to know when I am coming back - oh man! I was so excited to come home and hear that my friend Stacey is pregnant again!! And my other friend Ginger found out that she is seven weeks pregnant, she was a bit surprised after being on Clomid for many months and then deciding to take a break for the summer and then somehow she must have ovulated on her own and is pregnant - yay! My TTC status is on hold. Of course I had to cancel our planned IUI since I ended up going home for a week. Next month I am going on a spa weekend with my two dearest friends in Toronto and it looks like that will interfere with doing an IUI next cycle as well! I guess that means we are looking at the end of June or July before we can do our last one.

I got my new car! They were trying to locate one with the features we wanted and it looked like they would have to order one but just before I left for Ottawa they found one in Austin. So, when I got home my new car was waiting for me! It is so nice and I love the 6 disc in dash CD changer. I am so used to driving a small car that when I am driving the Xterra I feel like it's a monster truck! It's a weird feeling but I love it and there is plenty of room for a baby car seat and stroller and lots of other baby stuff someday.

I went to a quilting class with my friend Marsha a few weeks ago. We spent 3 hours quilting by hand a small little pot holder. It was nice to learn how to quilt but when we left the class we quickly agreed that hand-quilting is for suckers and neither of us want to spend the rest of out lives quilting a quilt by hand and that we will be using our sewing machines in the future! I guess we are not the patient type. Just after that I was at the fabric store and saw a grouping of amazing fabric and I immediately thought it would make a lovely quilt for a baby's room. They fabric was kind of like you would see on an Indian sari. It was a sort of shiny a bit and came in all kinds of jewel tones - sapphire blue, emerald green, fushia pink, aqua blue. I thought how lovely a patchwork baby quilt would look and then I could make the curtain and crib skirt in just one of the colors! It would be kind of sad to do all that work and then never have a baby, plus it would really be more for a girl's room so that would really be pushing fate. I guess I could make it and then if I never had a girl I could give it away. Oh well, the fabric is probably gone by now anyway.

I stopped in to the RE's office today to pay our bill and it felt so weird to be in there. I am not sure that I can explain it, but right now I want to forget my infertility and just be normal and it felt icky to be there and be reminded how much my future family is dependent on that place. He checked on the count from the last IUI and it was also great, 72 mil pre-wash and 90% motility. I told him that we likely wouldn't do the varicocele surgery since our counts have all been so good. And he did mention that when the lab processes the sample for the IUI they do not check morphology so we don't know if that is a possible problem. I didn't ask but I wonder how often the count and motility are good and the morphology is terrible? He also said that he is away for a week in July and that if we don't start the IUI cycle before the last week of June then we will have to wait until after July 18th. It's possible that it may be at least two more cycles before we can do our last IUI. Oh well, I'll just have to deal with it!
Anyway, take care everyone and I'll post again soon.

Heidi