Never-Dull-Moments: October 2001- Chapter 1 Trevor

October 2001: Steve and I were enjoying our first year being married. We were only 7 months into being married, but had already been trying for a couple of months to start a family. We knew it was something we didnt want to wait on. At my yearly check up that month I mentioned to my dr that we had been trying with no luck. So he did a sonogram to find that I had polycystic ovarian syndrome and my ovaries looked like grapes were hanging off of them. PCOS causes problems with ovulation which can cause fertility issues. I was then sent for some bloodwork and Steve was sent to have his swimmers checked. All was fine with Steve and I was the one who was causing the hold up. With my doctors advise we decided to try clomid which is a fertility pill. I would take the Clomid at the first of my cycle then 7 days later they would do a sonogram to make sure I was ready to ovulate. I would then receive an HCG injection which was a hormone to make the egg release. We would then go home and "TRY" to have a baby. The process felt very un-natural and was often finished at the end of the month with us feeling let down.

End of January 2002: January was the 3rd month on the fertility treatments and the doctor wanted for us to take a break in February. Take a break from the fertility, but to keep trying right around the time I should be ovulating. If this didnt work our next step was 3 more months of fertility then invitro.

February 2002: This month was our break. We just relaxed and had fun, didnt worry at all about "TRYING". Valentines was fun. We went out to dinner. Nothing really fancy. We kept it low key because we knew our 1 year wedding anniversary was the following month.

First week in March: My monthly friend didnt make its appearance like normal. So being that I worked at my gyn office, I had a nurse friend do a pregnancy test which was negative. She told me to wait a couple of days and check back if no monthly friend. 3 days later same thing happened. So we did a HCG qualitive test which tests the level of pregnancy hormone in your blood. The level is suppose to double every couple of days. It showed 0. I waited a week in agony with no monthly friend. I took another pregnancy urine test which was negative and same with the blood test. At this point I was just frustrated. The weekend was coming and we had family in town and would be celebrating our 1 year wedding anniversary on the 17th. So I vowed to just relax, my period wasnt coming cause I was stressed. We had a fun weekend. We went to Clearwater Beach and just enjoyed having family in town. That evening we went out to dinner at Olive Garden. I ordered a glass of wine and took a sip and immediately felt tipsy. I thought "this is odd". Then after dinner I had the worse heartburn even which was also odd and something I had never experienced. I had Steve stop in the way home at Walmart and we bought some preg tests.