We're Getting Closer...

So I've decided to start blogging. I originally started this blog in order to post a comment on one of my favorite blogs. Since that time, Team Turner's place in cyberspace has just been sitting vacant. I've decided this will be a good place for me to document our journey to hopefully becoming parents.

Casey, my most unbelievably charming and funny husband, and I have had a long road just to get this far. I've had multiple surgeries, lots of tears, more pain than can be imagined and many laughs along the way.

This past April, we were 2 days away from our "testing appointment" for invitro and got sidelined, yet again. My OB/GYN and reproductive endocrinologist both agreed I needed to go through another round of Lupron injections. Lupron is Satan's drug, I am convinced!!!! After Lupron didn't work, my OB/GYN called to say she had a new idea. One that she had only heard of previously that week, yet she felt it would be our "Hail Mary" chance at avoiding a hysterectomy.

On May 28, I had my uterus suspended and the bundle of nerves that supply my uterus removed. Since then life has been a cakewalk. The only downside has been the cute "C-section" type scar I now sport on on my bikini line (severe pain vs. scar....no brainer). Tomorrow I will be pain free for 2 months and counting. Life without pain and pain meds is fabulous and there's not a day goes by that I don't stop and thank the Lord (and Dr. Nebgen) for changing my life.

Even more exciting is that next Wednesday, Casey and I finally get to go to our "teaching/testing" appointment at our invitro doctor's office. The following Monday, should all go well this week, I'll have a scan of my ovaries done and stop my current birth control pill. As of our last consultation, Dr. Gill expected us to be done with process and hopefully pregnant by the end of August. Did I mention that August starts next week?!?!?!?

So thats a super short version of where we are and where we're going. Casey and I are really looking forward to being parents and hope that the coming month will be filled with some highly anticipated joy.

My dream is that one day this blog will serve as baby-blog book for our child. He or she will be able to sit down and read each entry knowing how much their parents wanted to be family with them.

So here we go..........we're getting closer..............