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Well I was so disappointed yesterday, and I had set myself up to start looking at calling my insurance, and different doctors, and different facilities to check on prices and paying options for that test, when the nurse at my OBGYN’s office called me on my way to work about 10 minutes ago. The nurse let me know that my Dr said that the chances of my having any sort of blockage is really low, so they’re gonna let me go ahead and start taking Clomid!!! Yay!
Anyway, I got to get to work, but just thought I’d share!
So today I was supposed to that HSG test. Well, it’s really my fault, but I should have checked on the price of the procedure before scheduling it. So, I get to the out patient area today to check in, and they tell me that with my insurance, I’d still have to pay about $750!! So, Brad and I decided to wait. I don’t know yet if they’ll go ahead and prescribe me Clomid without having done the test first, but maybe if they will, we can try that for 6 months before trying this test.
The terrible part was that I guess the medicine that they gave me to take (an antibiotic to prevent infection) made me terribly nauseous! I had taken it yesterday with no problems, and this morning I took it and 2 Motrin (as they recommended) before going to the doctor. Well, halfway there I told Brad that I was a little nervous, and thought that it was effecting my stomach. Well, I wasn’t that nervous, but by the time we got to the doctor I was feeling awful. And then of course I hear that I can’t even get the test done!
I really thought I was gonna throw up at the doctor’s office, and out in the parking lot, but I’ve never thrown up in public before and I guess my fear of embarrassment helped me keep it together until Brad could get me back home…where I threw up hardly anything because I hadn’t ate at all that morning!
Anyway, so I’m pretty disappointed…but I’ve got a call into the doctor’s office to see if it’s actually a requirement or not…hopefully I’ll hear back soon.
Best. Video. Ever.
Brad says that since this blog has both of our names attached that I have to include in this post that he does not endorse this video. (but that’s just because he’s lame)
Brad and I are laying in bed watching shows, so this probably won’t be a very long post. Today was a good (productive!) Monday, but even though I didn’t get much sleep last night, I’m still not very sleepy yet, which is kind of annoying. (I guess if I turned off the computer and TV and lights it might help, but usually that’s about the time that my mind starts racing about what all I need to do tomorrow, and what all I forgot to do today!)
Anyway, I was kind of impressed – Brad was telling me a story about a conversation with a friend, and he was talking about hard to read books, and he brought up Moby Dick. Then, he spouted off an entire quote from the book:
“…And he piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.“
Now, don’t get me wrong, Brad’s not stupid or anything, but he’s definitely not a book guy! But, I also realized that this quote was from one of our favorite movies, but he like it so much that he had looked it up to memorize it, which I thought was pretty cool.
So, I guess that sums up my random thought of the day. I’ll leave you with another quote from Moby Dick that I found really interesting:
“. . . because truly to enjoy bodily warmth,some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.”
Now I kind of want to read Moby Dick.
It’s Friday!
This week seems to have lasted particularly long, even though I was out sick on Monday. I think it’s a combination of the weather, everyone being sick, and just an overall feeling that I’ve got way too much to do in way to little time. Even though in the back of my head I know I’ve got enough time, and that it’ll all get done.
I go in for my second round of tests next week at the doctor. This time it’s something called an HSG test. I’m not particularly looking forward to it, but I’ve heard that it’s not too bad, and that sometimes even just having the test can kick-start ovulation, so I’ll be interested in seeing what happens!
As I said the other day, Brad’s boss got fired, which might be another reason that this week seems to have run a little long. I really thought his leaving would have more of an impact on the behavior of people up here, but it’s been business as usual since it happened. I won’t say that Brad was “happy” about it, but he and his boss always had kind of a strained relationship and Brad was beginning to become really unhappy with what he was doing. Now I think Brad is breathing a little easier and is actually excited to be excited about coming to work every day again. As for me, I’m still content to pluck away at the keyboard all day 
Well, I had taken a couple of pictures that I wanted to post, but I’ve left the cord for my camera at home! So, to make it up to you, I’ll share this one – it’s one of my favorites of Noah that always makes me smile:
Oh, and Happy Birthday YouTube!
I know that most of you will find this boring, but I thought that this was a really cool website. It’s got some great widget utilities that you can use to enhance your blog, FaceBook, MySpace, Homepage, etc.
I’ve spent my whole day researching the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-Up. I now know more than I ever thought I would about the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. If you want to know more, or feel like rounding up and Bar-B-Q’ing some Rattlers of your very own, check out my lovely page on the Round-Up. (Or run away screaming, whichever suits you the best!)
All in all, I guess that makes for an interesting Valentine’s Day…
Brad’s boss just got fired.
Dang Gina!!!
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So on the way to see my new nephew come into the world, (isn’t he precious!) I get a call from my brother. Apparently him and his wife are getting a divorce. It turns out that he’s put up with a couple of years of her running around with other guys, who she claims were “just friends.” He tried to integrate himself into her friends, her wanting to party all the time, her getting tattoos all the time (even though he really didn’t want her too, she would just do it anyway), her spending all his money and racking up bills. All this he did gladly just to try and show her that he loved her, and her three kids that were from other guys.
So, finally, when he told her that he didn’t approve of her latest “friend,” and ask her to choose, she chose. She announced that she wasn’t in love with him, and that she wanted a divorce. My brother is completely devastated, angry, and hurting for the kids that he had started to think of as his own.
I don’t want to go on a ranting rage about Scotti – believe me, she’s definitely not worth that much of my time, but seriously, what is wrong with people!? Why can’t people stay true to a person, a friend, a husband, a wife? When did everyone become so selfish? When did spouses and friends become disposable – to be discarded when they’re use is run out? I just don’t understand.
I guess I’m just a little upset, not only was I burned by the same person twice in so many years, but now my brother has been cheated on, money taken (she drained his accounts yesterday), and left alone in a huge house that he bought to hold 5…
All because people “get bored.”
/ end venting. /
Sorry the pic size is so big (so will probably load slowly), I don’t have access to a resizer at the moment…
