Welcome IComLeavWe visitors!

So, this is my first month ever doing IComLeavWe. Welcome! I'm growing a small number of followers which is nice. And I have some lovely commenters who have already been helpful and supportive. I'm hoping to find new blogs to read and comments to leave as my part of IComLeavWe. I've learned a lot from other bloggers and can only hope something I may randomly write here will be useful to someone else.

It seems to be customary to do a little summary here for new readers. As I told my OB/GYN doc yesterday for my annual exam (since I hadn't seen her since June/July of last year), do you want the short version or the long version? Short version: I'm not pregnant yet. Long version: one D&C for missed miscarriage, 3 IVF cycles, only one of which (the 3rd) made it to retrieval, 3 BFNs (and one or two rest cycle BFNs in between) and one laser laparoscopy with an endometriosis diagnosis. Next up: keeping on keeping on......either an IUI or an IVF cycle, but probably a couple of IUIs before heading back to IVF. Then? Donor eggs probably. Adoption if that doesn't work?

So, that's the infertile me.

Otherwise, I'm nearly 40 (June! oh my!), currently not working full-time partly because of all this crap and partly because after 13 years in the same organization I was seriously burned out. So, I'm doing some part-time consulting (including for the organization I used to work for). It's going ok. I like the freedom to say, 'nah, I don't want to work on that.' I'm a runner (not that you'd know it by looking at me!) and have been an occasional triathlete (one half-ironman down, I'm not sure there will be any more to go....) trying to keep up my running, swimming, biking (and doing not so badly given I don't have to schedule around a regular workday.)

Married to the kindest man alive (ok, I'm biased) who rescued me (well, we rescued each other) from singlehood in May of 2007 (married January 2009). We're a little late to the baby game, but really, was I supposed to have a child with that jerk I dated for two years in my early 30s? (ooops, there's the infertile (and angry) me creeping back in)

I have a great family, parents still alive, sister and brother-in-law and two nephews on the other side of the city and two more nephews on my husband's side (although, sadly on the other side of the country currently.) A close extended family with two cousins whom I'm really close with who have 5 kids among them (including my goddaughter: finally, a girl!!)

Life is actually pretty darn good (although don't quote me on that during evil progesterone hell weeks). I hope you've had fun visiting! Leave me a comment so I can visit and comment back!