Happy Birthday Aunty Nina!!

back to the beginning

back to square one.

talked with Pacific IVF. they've agreed that we should stop OCPs (birth control pills) for now as we don't know how long it will take to create our genetics panel.

rye and i will be going in on wednesday for an update with the nurse as well as for a blood test for them to send to Reprogenetics. and cec has swabbed her cheek for us (they mailed her a lab kit!) and overnighted it (for $6o) to New Jersey. (hmm...wonder what they're doing with that bit of her cheek right now?) ;)

meanwhile even with the possible 3+ month wait, we're maintaining no caffeine or alcohol. which has actually been more difficult then i thought, and i'm not even a REAL coffee drinker! i gave myself a little reprieve and am now drinking about 2 cups of decaf a week. :) Hurray.

on a little more interesting note: will be beginning acupuncture specifically oriented towards fertility and ivf this week. should be interesting!

memory lane and my sister...

and since we're taking that little trip down memory lane...

Happy Birthday Uncle Al!

6 decades really isn't that big a deal. This could have been taken yesterday. :)

little break, little niece

as many of you know Rye's sister Shelly had a little baby girl a couple of months ago...and with our lag in IVF his mom thought it would be nice for the 2 of us (me and her) to have a little break and zip on over to maui last weekend.

i love my little niece. (told Shelly i wouldn't post her name anywhere on the internet, in exchange for her letting us post pictures of her) ;)

it was the perfect escape:

my little niece...

the maui county fair...

where there were lots of animals...

and lots and LOTS of super yummy food. (like creamhorns from Stillwells)

and just in case you missed the cheeks...more pictures of the cutie...

mom moment

...was going to post about this weekend....but had a pretty tough mom moment tonight...tougher than i've had months...and i know there will be moments that will just reach out and grip you...and make you feel this hole and sadness that makes you feel like the tears just won't stop...

...and maybe it's partly because this whole babymaking (or attempt at it) makes me miss her so much more...and all the more emotional....but in the wake of my crying...i decided instead to blog about mom...and how much i miss her...


and remind me how she can still make me smile....(like the time she fell off her bike on a completely flat surface while riding in Carmel)
...or maybe like the time we started off on our hike to Mt. Fuji and 1) her yen offering bounced out of the shrine box, 2) she nearly knocked down all of our walking sticks and 3) then turned the wrong direction and proceed to walk DOWN the mountain instead of up.

hee hee hee...see...laughing now and crying at the same time. boy was mom special.... and boy mom are you missed.

love you whereever you are,
stace

interesting news...

So 2 new pieces of information -

• Dad's blood test results are back. He is not an RB1 carrier.

• And according to our IVF nurse the panel of genetics tests Reprogenetics is creating for us, may be be around $10,000.

Rye and I have some thinking to do...

genetics lesson 2

Maila's comment about genetics...suddenly blasted me back to our genetics college course we took together - and thought you'd appreciate this little fact we learned since I have no IVF update for today.

The olfactory receptor that allows you to smell a specifically different chemical in your urine after you eat asparagus is genetic.

In layman's terms: your pee smells different after you eat asparagus. means your sibling can tell smell the difference too, and probably either your mom or dad.

No idea what i'm talking about? Neither does your mom and dad. :) (but it's there trust me, in fact i can smell you in the stall next to you after you've eaten asparagus)

hee hee...sorry. was that TMI for the day?

Signing out,

Stace - Professor Miya-Genetics Guru