Waiting...

D's EEG came back 'normal' yesterday. Now we wait for the cardiologist appointment in October. He seems totally healthy, and active as always. Other than making sure he is eating well, which we do anyway, of course, and watching him like a hawk I'm not sure what I can do to make sure he doesn't pass out again. Thankfully he doesn't have a seizure disorder (most likely), because that is a terrible thing for a child to face, and the anti seizure medications are brutal. I jump every time the phone rings because I think it is the school calling. And for some reason, the phone is ringing all the time and I usually never get calls...the local paper trying to sell a subscription, some construction company that keeps calling my husband because some guy out there with the same name does plumbing contract work. I never had problems with my blood pressure before, even when pregnant with the twins, but I'm pretty sure if I had a cuff handy it would be spiking by now.

In other news, my husband and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary on Wednesday. I use the term celebrated loosely because hubby spent the day fixing the brakes on the van. That night we cooked up some seafood and ate in the kitchen with the lights turned down low to stir up some romance. This Saturday we are going to stay in a swanky hotel in Boston using up my husband's points that he earned by sleeping in not-so-swanky hotels in Virginia while on travel. More than three months of sleeping apart, with me being the single parent and hubby missing me and the kids dreadfully, has bought us one night of wedded bliss. It will be the first time I've slept apart from all of the kids in over 6 years. (I slept away from the boys for 3 nights while in the hospital having AK). This is going to be an adventure. Thankfully, my mom will be watching the kids, and besides being an awesome Mom and teacher, like all teachers she is trained in CPR and first aid. But still, the worry will be coming with us. Hopefully we can put it down for a little while.

As for the baby making front, I called the clinic last week. It took a couple of days for the nurse on the IVF team to get back to me. I knew they would be swamped. She told me that it had been a long time since they worked up a protocol for me, so the whole team was going to have to meet next Tuesday, and she would be getting back to me after that to tell me what the next move would be. The whole team??? That's a lot of people just sitting around and talking about my ovaries and ute. Hopefully I can get on board the IVF train before it shuts down for the December/January holiday season. We all know how this stuff works. You wait, and wait, go through testing and then BANG you're stimming and retrieving in the blink of an eye. I'm looking forward to this chance.

If everything comes crashing down and I don't make it to transfer, or when I'm crazy during the 2ww, please remind me how much I wanted this chance, won't you?