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I have had students of mine access my caringbridge site...not that it says anything bad, but I don't want them having that info. Sooo, if you would like to continue to follow my cancer blog, please email me at elephantmeg@juno.com and I will email you the password.

Home, but not 100%

I had the hardware in my neck taken out on Friday and planned to stay about one night in the hospital until ,my pain was under control. Well I ended up staying 3 nights/4 days because I was so sick and couldn't stop throwing up. I was hallucinating too...crazy stuff. I am home now and just taking it easy. I am still really sore but not hallucinating anymore and can keep my pain managed. I look & feel really puffy in my face and neck but I guess that's to be expected.

I have an anti-nausea patch behind me left ear and I'm scared to take it off because I think I'll start puking again. The patch is giving my blurred vision so reading anything is pretty out of the question...so much for finishing my book.

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

Tomorrow's the day

Tomorrow is the big surgery to get all the hardware taken out of my neck. I doubt I'll be updating this blog but my DH will be updating my caringbridge site if you're interested in seeing how the surgery went. Feel free to visit if you'd like.



Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers.

And so the search continues.

We didn't get the house we put a bid on last week, which we pretty much knew, but it doesn't make it any better. We don't know what it finally went for but we'll be able to find out soon enough when it closes. We keep looking at other houses but have seen pretty much everything in our area that fits our qualifications so now we just wait for new things to go on the market. We are going to look at 4 houses tomorrow (one of them is brand new!) and then we'll probably take a break until after the new year because of my surgery.

Finally saw Twilight movie

I finally went to see the Twilight movie this morning...it was pretty good but nothing compared to how good the book is. I don't think they left off where the book does either. DH thought it was pretty good and wanted to know what happened in the other books. It's making me want to finish book 4..no spoilers please.

We also saw Four Christmases (yeah we went to two for the price of one). It was pretty good, kept us laughing that's for sure, but again it all comes back to a baby. Oh well. I am focusing on my surgery this coming week and then I can focus on baby making.

New IVF nurse= hope

I talked to the new IVF nurse at my clinic today (the other one left and I'm not sure why). She is so awesome and when i told her that I was doing EPP and that nobody at this clinic has done it before she said that the clinic she worked at in San Diego did EPP all the time with high success rates with cases like mine. She said that she looked at my protocol that my RE found and said that they have a better one at her old clinic. She's calling her clinic and getting the successful protocol sent over and then getting it approved by my RE.

I start estrogen pills in January for an ER in February!!! I am so excited that I have a plan and someone at my clinic who's done this protocol before. FINALLY something is going right...now let's just get me to an ER and I'll be on top of the world.

House Hunting...Nursery??

As we're house hunting I can't help but look at the bedrooms and think to myself, "Oh, this would be a perfect nursery." I know it's terrible to do that to myself but I can't help it.

We did put an offer on a house the other day but are pretty sure we won't get it. It's a lender owned property and we bid a thousand less than the asking price because there were other offers on the table as well. I was talking to another lady who happens to be a realtor that deals with lender owns a lot and she said that we probably won't get it if we didn't bid more than they were asking...we didn't even know we could do that!!

Oh well if it's meant to be we'll get it, in the mean time we keep looking and I keep eying nurseries;)