Good afternoon TTCers pong, pong, pong, pong
Hoorah for the arrival of the
weekend. Although I will be scrubbing walls Sun - Tues. Weak yay. Still it has to be done, flat sale is pressing ahead and I don't fancy joining in with Jubilee stuff as I will be sad about not making delicious cupcakes and Pimms.
I hope we are all feeling ok today? I know that I am feeling better especially after my sesh with the Brown Goddess yesterday afternoon.
Gin I am so glad that naughty period turned up and that you can relax and start focusing on the summer of mending and relaxing.
Artemis I am hugely
at your friend for a) writing you a sappy letter. What does she think this is 1935? and b) that comment. Inexcusable.
Lemons I am also hugely
at the people who watch you and your intake. What losers! One good thing about the brown diet for me is that I can merrily tell people that I'm not drinking / consuming all the other stuff because of the hormone stuff so that if I do fall pregnant there will be no suspicion, unless of course I start eating cheese and cream again, which may be a give away for those paying close attention to my yawnsome lectures. I'm so sorry that IUI III didn't work for you and I hope you have a nice month off with lots of
.
So I am sat here with a mammoth broccoli, chard and apple juice on ice. A special cocktail for a Friday afternoon. Brown Goddess is incredibly happy with my progress and determination. She was mega impressed that we didn't SWI when I got the positive OPK. When I told her about the piss stick she almost cried with happiness and I think she actually had a small tear as she clutched to her chest
I'm not really one for this sort of behavior but I am actually getting used to these kinder, hippyer types it's, well, oddly soothing.
There is little that I need to tweak in the brown diet regime and the hair mineral analysis results were not as scarey as I thought and nothing has been chopped from my diet (phew almonds and kale are staying - winning!). I have to up my juicing, 1 big one every day without fail, preferably green - this is to help the absorption of the extra calcium in my system. The magnesium in the green juice should help this. I have to take zinc and magnesium super supplements to combat the calcium and copper and my sodium deficiency is largely to do with low potassium but she isn't too worried about this one, just a reminder to add a moderate amount of sea or rock salt when we cook. As the HMA is showing a picture of me over the last 6 months (including some pretty spectacular drinking fails over my besties hen do and 30th birthday and new year etc etc) the brown stuff, up'd vegetable and fruit regime and the teetotalling (11th week on Sunday - I have it marked in my diary because I promised myself a special treat for week 12 - I still have my thinking cap on). I am also being put on lots of scary vitamins (I think there are some veggies on here, so I won't tell you what's in them but I'm a bit freaked out to say the least) and some new omega 3 and 6 supplements. She also gave me a box of eggs that her hens had laid. Oh and she has a country pad to die for. Modest in size (bigger than our new house but that really isn't saying much!) and beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Lots of pics of her gorgeous family everywhere and decorated like something out of an interior design magazine article. OH is now being signed up to go and see her and will have to do the pube analysis given my low zinc levels. Ha ha and ha! I hope she bans his delicious coffee, it's bothering me even more than usual at the moment. She was also very impressed with the raw vegan key lime cheesecake, I saved the label to show her and she was like, "wow that has nothing that doesn't have a nutritional property in it". Brownie points (ha ha ha ha brownie geddit - ok weak I know) pour moi. In 6 weeks time its knickers off and back on the TTC wagon. I will be back in the game with your ladies sooner than I thought wooohooo :) My first 2ww will be the end of July. I am also allowed to have a really nice glass of
every so often as a treat if I fancy it. But it is to be a rare treat and high quality wine in a small glass. This is dangerous as Princess Barry loves posh wine and one small glass will never sate the wine worm that hides in Princess Barry's tummy hole. She also tried to convince me to put off my NHS appointment as she said they will undoubtedly be negative about my fertility (interesting) and that I have to give her regime the full 3 months to be in tippy toppy breeding mode. My mum was furious about this, although before I even got a word in sideways, to say that I won't be delaying the NHS appointment, I will be pressing them for a day 21 blood test and some further information about the previous scan (for those of you who don't remember they told me - lovely uterus (which happens to be anteverted, although my mum has this too), good left ovary, bobbly right ovary, hmm, better check the left again, oh well some cysts but not many. Then my GP tells me that actually they have no idea about the bobbliness of the lefty as it was hidden behind my bladder. So why say anything?! I would like some proper answers on this matter and to find out whether a) I have low prog because my eggs are low quality or b) if I have bobbly ovaries for another reason. I expect I'll get a shrug of shoulders and the unexplained bollocks. However, I will be telling them that I do wish to continue with the diet and nothing else until later this summer. I'm not anti medical stuff but I want to give the brown a chance. I would be a bit of a crap guinea pig otherwise wouldn't I?!
The Gluckster clinic is clearly very busy or just ignoring my email. I'm not impressed that they didn't respond immediately. It was a long email that took me ages to write and I carefully checked the grammer too. There is an eery silence in the Gluck room I have set up and am thinking that this maybe Gluck is a lost cause. Perhaps because I asked for a price list they instantly put me into the trash can.
Frannie Keith The X Factor journey made me
too. Imagine the panel of judges being like the medical team for a very odd fertility clinic. And Simon Cowell peering up the fanjo or Tulissa blow job queen giving advice. SHUDDER
Sarlat hoping that you are bearing up ok today and that you have some nice but gentle activities lined up for the next week. Still thinking of you. xxx
Wine I would lurve a tabbard of spectacular beauty and upliftingness. They sound like they would be both practical (pocket for sparkly fertility knob) and magical properties.
Well I'm off to have soothing Friday evening reflexology....mmmnnnn ahhhhhh.... and then we are having one of my fave dinners mediterranean lamb casserole with brown and green stuff, followed by raw vegan key lime cheesecake.
Waves to everyone else I've missed. I'm now running late and realaise I need to change out of dress and into trousers for foot rub otherwise she may get a rather unpleasant view up skirt I'm also scared I'll let one off after the massive green juice I've just consumed - whoops!
Love to you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
princess barry 