Seeing Triple

Okay I'm not going nuts.  As the days grow longer I'm finally getting the chance to see more of the cats that are deciding what I put out tastes so good to them that they are now telling their friends.

First we had one small black cat.  Then I noticed a tiger stripe cat.  Last night the black cat meowed to a friend down the street and it called back.  I then noticed the friend was also a long hair black cat.  Great we are now feeding three strays.  Good thing I bought another case of wet food and 6 pounds of kitty kibble yesterday.    Still I'm hoping to get these strays to a vet and find homes for them.  Not sure that will happen as they seem to be fairly skittish.

On the ttc front, though I'm not really trying to conceive but just have fun.  Odd things are happening to my body.  I have that fun thin whitish discharge that is known to go along with endometrin use.  Only I'm not on the endometrin right now.  It is everywhere just like when on that medication.  The other night it made me leave a wet mark on my sheets.  Ugh!  So at 0300 hrs I was stripping the bedding down and decided to stay up and start the house cleaning early.

I have insomnia.  Well that worked out in my favor with the above aforementioned cleaning.

My yogurt tastes weird.  Could be that it might have gotten frozen when pushed to the back of the fridge.  Could be that it went bad before I even cracked it open for the first time which was today.  I just bought it yesterday.  Could also be that it is a different brand though same plain Jane Greek style.

Sex drive has increased two fold.  My husband is happy right now.  But then wouldn't most guys be happy if they got jumped while trying to sleep?  They can just roll back over to snore when finished. 

Oh and last odd thing to share.  My arms and backs of my hands have broken out in a rash from the sun,  polymorphous light eruption are what my doctor 11 years ago called it.  Every year when I try to activate my Vitamin D for just 15 minutes in the sun daily I break out in a rash on any part not covered by clothing.  Just the reason why I try to keep my head down with a big floppy hat on my head as a rash on my face is so not becoming.  Though I still do have a slight rash on my face as the hat doesn't block out all the UVB.

It Figures

I walk the mile to the hospital, I need exercise, only to get to the lab and be handed a pee cup.

Me: What is this for?

Clerk: U/A

Me: A U/A wasn't ordered for me, just blood work. 

Clerk: The blood work has to be done at the office.

The clerk then hands me the cup and tell me I can bring it back any time.  Then she hands me three other lab slips.  I go to a chair and look over what was ordered. Again this is blood work so I'm kind of scratching my head about the clerk's response.  The slips state:  ABO/RH, CBC, E2/P4.  Great the labs that were done last month at the ER weren't taken out of the computer.

I go back up to the desk.

Me:  Who ordered these labs and when were they ordered?

Clerk: Last month and by the doctors on the slips.

Me:  They must be the ER draws that were already done.  Is there anything else in there for me from this month, say this last week?

Clerk:  No.

I walked down to the Army RE office and chat with Chris, the male receptionist.  Chris is a nice guy.  His reaction to Juicing was, "don't do it.  It will make you fart a lot!".  LMAO

Chris goes into the back and gets the IVF nurse for me.  I go into the back with her and sit down.  She NEVER GOT THE REQUEST from PNW.  Great!  I told her what to look for and who to talk to up there.  She is best chatting with Jacqueline first as she can direct her to which nurse up there to talk with next.

I mentioned my dad's clotting disorder so that JF knows they ordered that blood work and the karoytyping for my husband as well.

If there is something wrong with J's karoytyping, I really hope not and that it was just a fluke, we'll eliminate donor eggs and move to donor embryos or adoption.  If I have a clotting factor issue that can be fixed easily enough and J is fine then we'll do donor eggs again.  If we are both wonky we'll just move on to adoption.

Update on the Kitty.  No clue what sex but it's fur is matted in places so I'm guessing it is an abandoned cat and not a feral.  Last night I got the front screen door open and was talking directly to the cat when the neighbors spooked the cat.  It came back later on and finished its food up.

Newest kitty photo with the light on in the breezeway.

It devoured the canned chicken and gravy cat food last night.  All my cats have always loved chicken.  

WTF Appointment #3

So we had our third WTF appointment today.  Third non-loss.  Third no answer session.

It was a phone meeting.  I'm kind of glad it was via phone and not in person nor through video conference too.  I'd rather not have the doctor see the faces I was making though I'm sure if he was listening he could probably hear the tone of my voice change a bit.

I had to fight to get even three tests ordered for myself and one for J.  The good doctor didn't think any tests were necessary as it "wasn't a pregnancy".  It didn't call for repeat pregnancy loss testing. 

Now you can guess why I was getting angry.  Don't they think I already know it wasn't a "real" pregnancy.  But dammit anyway there were embryos put back!  They didn't take!  So I want answers not just a "it happens".

It has "happened" now three times!

I requested karyotyping on my husband.  I requested the RPL full panel.  But what I'm getting is three tests to include the antiphosolipid and two other tests he didn't mention but not one will be about clotting disorders.  I did mention my dad's heart problems and got cut off before I mentioned that he does bleed out and has anemia.  The good doctor said the heart is not a problem in the clotting factor. If only he had let me continue and not cut me off mid track.  Nor did I get to remind him that I have arthritis and eczema which are autoimmune disorders and should be checked with that blood panel too.  I have no clue if the ANA will be one of the three tests that he has ordered.

As for the karyotyping the good doctor said that it might not be allowed by the Army as the test costs about  a grand.  Well consider the fact that we have paid out of pocket for two IVFs and now one donor cycle and well lets not forget all those IUIs and still not one pregnancy to show for it I think my husband is a good candidate to have this test done.  Not that I'm blaming my spouse but it is possible that something could be wrong since the good doctor kept saying how perfect the donor was and that sometimes something could be wrong with the sperm. 

That's right keep contradicting yourself doc.

I had to beg with the good doctor to get the testing done for my peace of mind.  I'd rather we know something good but I'll be prepared for the worst too.

Of course I asked again how many eggs it took to make the blastocysts and he still didn't know.  I've asked the clinic via phone and in emails many times to have the information ready for the WTF appointment.  It wasn't there.  The doctor didn't even have J's sperm report handy.  Seriously how was the good doctor even prepared for us.  15 minutes late in calling us too.  Not like J has anything better to do right?  He had to come home from work for this appointment.

On a lighter note:
The stray cat I've been feeding is eating quite well.  I feed it a 5.5 ounce can of wet food and 1/2 cup of dry each day.  Last night I finally got to see what the cat looks like.  Long haired, most likely domestic, black.  No clue as to the sex of the cat.  Here are some crappy pictures because I didn't want to use flash and scare the critter off.

It was after 2130 hrs when I took the photos.  Still fairly light out but I was taking them from a tunnel of sorts being my breezeway.

Stray and Abandoned Pets

Last night I put out some milk, don't even rant to me about milk not being good for most cats because I do know but had nothing else in the house last night to put in a dish, in a dish for a cat that looks to be a stray or possibly abandoned.

It is moving season on the military installation.  It is the time where families decide what is expendable.  I'm pissed.  Your pet is a member of your family and it is not expendable.  Every year at this time I end up feeding stray animals and trying to find their owners.

Today J is going to pick up some tuna fish and dry kitty kibble on his way home from work.  I'll do my best by this particular stray cat to make sure it has food.  It has been crying outside my windows for the past week in the middle of the night.  Last night I had to give it something.  The bowl of milk I put out was gone within 10 minutes.  Does that tell you how starved this animal must be?

To those of you that move with your pets I applaud you.  My cat, may he rest in peace, traveled with me from NY to TX to Germany and back to NY.  My cat was my fur baby and moved with me.  I was devastated when one time he didn't come home.  I had moved home during the divorce and my mom thought it would be nice to let my cat outside often.  He did good until one October he didn't come home.  Black cats and October don't mix.  Some idiot always decides to do cruel things to black cats that month.  I can only hope my cat fault like the devil to survive.

This stray cat is a black long hair.  I will take it in if possible and get it to the vet to get it checked out for diseases and to see if it has a chip just in case some one is missing their pet.  If they aren't I'll probably end up adopting the cat even though my husband seems to be allergic to cats.  We pet sit once and it wasn't pretty.

Odd Dreams and Stray Cats

I just made this particular baby hat yesterday and felt like I had to list it this morning.  It is preemie to newborn size in a grey marl and baby blue stripe with the grey marl rosette on top.  It can be found in my shop for sale as of today.

I made it thinking of a particular blogger that suggest I make one in blue and grey.  J just loves this hat.  Wonder if he'll want me to make him the adult version of it next.

My dreams were really odd last night.  I was pregnant, maybe 5 months, but my cousin who had a hysterectomy was was near her due date and throwing a pool party too in the dream. 

I must have baby on the brain.  I know I don't have a baby in me yet because the HPTs keep showing negative.  Well it is still early.  My blood test isn't until Tuesday but I won't be around for those results so I'm bumping it up to Monday.  Hopefully that doesn't screw things up.  No real symptoms.

Today I saw another stray cat in the neighborhood.  I have seen the orange and buff colored one in over a week.  This one was a skinny black and white kitty.  Why aren't they being better taken care of.  They are almost always on the other side of the street too.  No they don't belong to my neighbors since their cats I know by color and they are kept indoors. 

The weather is getting too cold overnight for these cats to be wandering around looking for shelter.