I haven’t seen many photos, so I thought I’d include one. The lupron shots weren’t bad at all. I did have a slight reaction for an hour or so afterwards – my skin got red as the medication spread out. I had 10 units (0.1 ml) of Lupron in the evening for 10 days, reduced…
IVF
We’re beginning our IVF journey this month. I’ve gotten fairly well acquainted with my body on the way here. I can tell when I have an LH surge without using an OPK, though I do still test to make sure. I’ve learned more about getting pregnant than I knew there was to know. I’ve also…
The Painted Drum
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up….
none
And then there were none. What is that doing rolling around in my head? It must have lost its way. Almost all things lose their endings. Like friends who promise to write each other – the letters come and go, days apart, then weeks, then no one is writing anymore. But there isn’t a point,…
A Return to Love
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God….
one
I’d like to find one. A particular one. Not the one, because there are multiple ones for everyone. And not more than one, because I only want to sow one field all of my days. I would sit in my easy chair with my head of fluffy white hair and look to the left at…
Fannie Mae HomePath Renovation Loan
Some observations: It seems one has to have very good credit to qualify for a HomePath loan. People can qualify for FHA and not qualify for HomePath. HomePath is cheaper than FHA, even with a higher interest rate, because you do not have to pay mortgage insurance. My process: Find a home you like that…
grandma j
My grandmother died. My last grandparent. She had checked out some time ago, but it is still a loss. I think of her, of all of them, as merely absent, not gone. The denial serves me. Thus far, it’s been people (and animals) I didn’t see regularly. So I stay in that mindset. I just…
v
I visited V’s Facebook page and she was there. Status updates and comments and photos. Her giant smile. It seems, rather, it IS, silly, but I posted on her wall. There won’t be any services, so I thought it would be as good a place as any to say something. Perhaps it’s cliché, but I…
Cutting for Stone
I finished a few books this weekend: Interpreter of Maladies (last story has a happy ending!), The Well of Ascension (on to book 3), Dark Summer (entertaining). The one I keep thinking about, though, finished last Friday, is Cutting for Stone. After a quick and dirty Google search, I think my reaction may be in…