All Is Well

Not much to say today.  Everything is going good.  Maybe I should have turned this into a long post about how well things are going?

I made the second payment in a week's time for the donor eggs.  Little over 6k to still pay out.
$18,799.65 for the donor eggs, physician services and embryology services.  $155 for sperm cryopreservation.   $365.00 for the office consult.    $19,319.65 before any other fees like embryo cryopreservation.  We are guaranteed two blastocysts.  We are hoping for more of course but don't know if we'll get them.  It could be a one shot deal since I'll be transferring two.

I've lost 3.6 pounds since the appointment last week.  I'm wondering if it is because I went off the prilosec.  I know that particular drug can cause weight gain.  Might be one of the reasons why I was able to gain so much weight when I went on it last year in March.  Maybe now that I'm off it the weight will come back off?  I can hope.

Yesterday I took a six hour block of time to work on the baby afghan for a friend.  M and I are more friendly since meeting her at the marriage retreat.  Her husband and mine work together.  Forty-nine blocks are basically done and just need to be trimmed in white then joined together.  The afghan will be a forty-two inch square when complete.    Yes, I'll post photos when I'm finished with it.  Not sure if I'll get it done soon or not but that is okay since her baby isn't due until June.  Bonus part, less yarn to pack up when we move.  I'm using some of the yarn I had put aside for the first IVF when I had hopes of making a genetic baby.  J was okay with me using the yarn up.  He knows I can get more.  He isn't sentimental like I am.  Good omen to me to give rather than just let it sit there and rot.

My stomach didn't hurt as bad yesterday.  Must be the pepcid and ginger pills are doing the trick.  I can only hope that today is much like yesterday and I won't be puking up.  I can deal with acid reflux but not the puking.  My throat is a bit raw still.

Back To Hooking

My right ring finger seems to be healed enough now that I can once again pick up a crochet hook.  Sure my hand goes numb after about an hour of hooking but that is easy enough to remedy by hanging it downward.

One of J's co-worker's wives is pregnant for their third baby.  This one was as she calls it, "an accident".  Yeah right.  No one has sex by accident.  But she was on the pill.  So they weren't planning a baby.

Currently I'm crocheting granny squares to make a afghan.  Maybe I'll make an afghan to give to her.  Third baby doesn't mean a baby shower nor should it.  But since it will be her first girl I might make something just because of that.  I say might because we all know that I can only do just so much in a day and finding time to make something not for my shop costs me dearly.  No not in funds, but just time.

Maybe making a blanket for someone else will feel good.  I haven't made a crocheted baby afghan in about 14 years.  Karen's baby is now a teenager.  Scary to think about.

S's baby girl isn't due until June so I still have time to finish up the project with no promises as it will be a surprise if I get it done.  Now I just need to plan out how many squares and the background color for yarn.  I'll have to purchase the yarn of course for the remaining squares and background.  Oh what did I get myself into.  I have tons of yarn here already and none of it the right colors.  Obsessing much?

Whatevers~