Hurst Family: A Baby Story

It's Friday night, 11pm, and I'm writing a blog post.  Take note, because this is what cool kids do. I know it's a little late notice, but I did go in for my FINAL blood draw this past Monday and found that my HCG level had dropped to a 3.  The nurse basically said "that's it, you're done."  Dr. Jarrett called me personally the following day and left me a nice voice message.  He called to check on me, tell me that he was happy my levels finally dropped all the way down, and said we could get into another IVF round as soon as we were ready.  I could tell he was sitting there looking over my charts because as soon as he said that he retracted it and said "actually, with the methotrexate, let's wait one more month."  That chemo shot is serious business.  We have to wait until I have a full cycle and we are sure the chemo is out of my body entirely before attempting to turn me back into a chemically unbalanced, hormonal lab rat.  I'm not su...

Where have the last four days of my life gone?  Sickness struck our household nearly two weeks ago when Khloe came down with a bad cold.  She recovered quickly, however it wasn't but a few days later that I started to lose my voice and get a pretty rough sounding cough.  It quickly turned into the stomach flu and has been hanging around for over four days.  I just can't seem to kick this.  As I think about this upcoming week, I know that tomorrow morning I am to go back in to Dr. Jarrett's office another blood draw in hopes that my HCG levels have continued to drop.  I 100% think that the chemo shot they gave me a few weeks back has significantly impaired my immune system.  I can only remember one other time that I have ever been this sick, and that was in 2009 when I had to skip out on Black Friday overnight shopping with my cousin.  :-)  I am thankful for my health under normal life circumstances, and I am hoping and praying that my body ...

I'm happy that it's March.  That means SPRING, and flowers, and blooming trees, and fresh air.  Although I am happy that spring is near, I'm pretty bummed that I'm still dealing with this IVF cycle that started on December 30th.  Last Monday, I went in to check that my HCG level had dropped - and it had, down to 76 (from 96).  I was asked to repeat the blood test again in a week, so I went in this morning and just received the call that my HCG level dropped to 59.  It's a good sign that it is dropping, but it is so discouraging that we're already into March and my body can't kick this.  It's hard to let go of my original plan, especially when the plan was to try another IVF cycle in March if the January cycle had failed.  Well, here we are March.  And here we are [still] January cycle. Sometimes life doesn't go as planned.....HA.  You'd think I would know that by now.  I don't know what's worse, paying for IVF and ending with both a mi...