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February 10, 2010 Day 1 blog
Allow us to introduce ourselves...
We are John and Becca Parker, and this is our story...
We were married on June 7, 2008. Both of us were confident that we wanted to begin a family from the start. Seeing as I had only one ovary and I wasn't getting any younger, we got on the baby making, pronto!
We quickly realized that the 'honeymoon baby' was not to be. It wasn't until October of '08 that I decided to go and visit a doctor in Tulsa to "check on things". After a brief consult, one that didn't even involve a physical examination, I was given the age old advice: "Just keep trying, and be patient..."
So off I went, disappointed and a bit unsettled. I did convince myself that I might be overreacting. She was after all, a professional!
Three months earlier I had started a new teaching position in Tulsa. During one of the "get to know you" sessions at the school, an associate quietly passed me a note with a phone number on it. "These people changed my life", she whispered. She didn't want to be forward, but certainly noted a yearning in me that tugged at her heart a while back.
In January, I dug that number out of my desk drawer. Although it had only been six months of trying, I was ready to take my story to a new set of ears, and find out where to go from there...
The short version?
I was in surgery three weeks later.
Diagnosed with an 'obvious' case of endometriosis, Dr. B did a procedure called laproscopy. He also needed to remove a septum, which I understood to be a section of my uterus that was "in the way". He removed it so that it would successfully hold an embryo.
Although the surgery was "successful", there was a very long road ahead.
Some of the endometriosis remained in the lining of my uterus even after the surgery. That would be dealt with through a medication that would settle my estrogen levels, and bring me into a "false" menopause.
Wow, talk about a long 6 months...poor John...hot flashes, mood swings...they all came with it!
Hard to think about going into menopause intentionally when the final outcome is the dream of a baby...aren't we going backwards here?!?!?
BUT - I had a very good reason to believe what the doctor said was true, so on we went...
We are John and Becca Parker, and this is our story...
We were married on June 7, 2008. Both of us were confident that we wanted to begin a family from the start. Seeing as I had only one ovary and I wasn't getting any younger, we got on the baby making, pronto!
We quickly realized that the 'honeymoon baby' was not to be. It wasn't until October of '08 that I decided to go and visit a doctor in Tulsa to "check on things". After a brief consult, one that didn't even involve a physical examination, I was given the age old advice: "Just keep trying, and be patient..."
So off I went, disappointed and a bit unsettled. I did convince myself that I might be overreacting. She was after all, a professional!
Three months earlier I had started a new teaching position in Tulsa. During one of the "get to know you" sessions at the school, an associate quietly passed me a note with a phone number on it. "These people changed my life", she whispered. She didn't want to be forward, but certainly noted a yearning in me that tugged at her heart a while back.
In January, I dug that number out of my desk drawer. Although it had only been six months of trying, I was ready to take my story to a new set of ears, and find out where to go from there...
The short version?
I was in surgery three weeks later.
Diagnosed with an 'obvious' case of endometriosis, Dr. B did a procedure called laproscopy. He also needed to remove a septum, which I understood to be a section of my uterus that was "in the way". He removed it so that it would successfully hold an embryo.
Although the surgery was "successful", there was a very long road ahead.
Some of the endometriosis remained in the lining of my uterus even after the surgery. That would be dealt with through a medication that would settle my estrogen levels, and bring me into a "false" menopause.
Wow, talk about a long 6 months...poor John...hot flashes, mood swings...they all came with it!
Hard to think about going into menopause intentionally when the final outcome is the dream of a baby...aren't we going backwards here?!?!?
BUT - I had a very good reason to believe what the doctor said was true, so on we went...
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