Postponed....

Sorry for the month delay of no communication. Todd kept wanting to do shared risk and so I folded. I was trying to hear God on this but... Todd's voice was loud so I never could hear anything else.

When we were in the middle of our first IVF attempt, Todd had severe stomach pain around my retrieval but he didn't want to go to the hospital and "waste all that money." He also was extremely upset when he had a 99 temp one night while I didn't think anything of it. He was in the hospital the weekend that I started my period which showed us, it didn't work. We neve knew what was the issue.

Well, now we know. I was in the hospital in March for four days. I had a low grade fever but within 6 hours I was severely dehydrated. This past month I have had a lot of tests done with everything "normal." Several days ago, the doctor called at 9:30 to inform us that although we had two prior tests which showed I didn't have mono, that I had mono recently. Looking at how adults respond (chest pains, blood pressure/rate issues, etc as well as a 30-50 days after exposure that symptoms appear), we are pretty sure that is what Todd also had and why I got it. It is so rare to get this when you are an adult since most have the antibodies in their blood. We decided that we didn't kiss enough people in our teens.

So the doctor told me that since my liver enzymes are high that we should talk to the RE about doing IVF this month (which Todd had planned all along since he thinks we are having twin on Feb. 18-- who knows where he gets these things!). Todd called and talked with the nurse and she said everything was fine and no issues of starting the IVF. I had already emailed the doctor about it earlier and today the same nurse called and said we needed to wait a cycle. The difference-- I personally think it was the "shared risk" where they don't want to waste a cycle if my system is out of sorts but willing to try if it was all us :)