the Human Voodoo Doll

That's the best description of my experiences this week.  Tuesday had my HCG and progesterone levels checked.  The FS called about 12 on Tuesday and told me to get referrals for blood tests on Tuesday and Thursday.  Of course my GP is nowhere near work so I found a medical centre in the city that's close to one of the collection centres and luckily managed to get an appointment at 1:15.  Only 1 vial this time - not like when I had my recurrent miscarriage testing and they took 9!!!

Wednesday night I went to my acupuncture appointment where she did some treatment to help the little one stick and some positive visualisation and relaxation.

Yesterday I had my 2nd beta HCG and progesterone and got the results of the first one...online!  The doctor gave me a code to log into a website with my results.  This newfangled technology! ;)  So I know that my HCG on Tuesday at 16DPO was 557 and progesterone was 47.6.  I've been through this enough times to know that one HCG result doesn't mean anything on its own so I'll be checking today to hopefully see that it's doubling.  As forthe progesterone, I really don't know what is considered good, but I think as long as it's above 10 and not dropping it's ok.  Fingers crossed.

Otherwise symptoms aren't too strong.  Am peeing constantly and get really thirsty and my boobs are a bit tender but only really if I press them.  Just trying to distract myself as much as possible and not think too far ahead.  Sometimes I succeed...

Meditations on success

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”  - Booker T Washington

I love this quote.  I once tore it out of a Weight Watchers magazine and put it up on my wall at work.

"Envy was just the tax you paid on success" - David Nicholls

I have no idea who David Nicholls is.  Will have to look him up later.

This is just a short post from work.  Our fancy schmantzy home Naked DSL is acting up.  So we have no home phone (VOIP) and no internet.  Put together with the fact we are in a mobile phone blackspot and I am starting to feel like I'm living in the dark ages - quite literally when you consider we'll have no main light in the bedroom until July.  The ISP has arranged a company to come out and look at it, but of course they want to come during business hours.  It's so hard to get things done around the house when you both work full time, and Joe has already taken 2 days off to have stuff done.

Yesterday we had new cabinets, doors and laminate put in the kitchen.  It is looking much better but of course everything that you do to a place creates another thing that needs to be done...so now we need to replace some tiles in the kitchen and get some new ones for a splashback.  Anyhoo...

Had my fortnightly acupuncture appointment last night.  As someone who has never been good with needles I am surprised at how relaxing it is (except that the needle she put in my wrist was a little bit sore).  I'm still a bit of a skeptic but I figure even if it's doing nothing for my fertility, if it makes me more relaxed it's worth it.

Anyway, I started on the topic of "success" and seem to have got a bit off track with miscellaneous household issues.  So to conclude, I will share one of my other favourite Tom Petty songs, a "battle-cry" for resilience if you will...