MY stupid idiot manager.... >:( 5pm can't come soon enough. I swear sometimes I feel like no good deed goes unpunished. Just got stung a bit. Argh and sigh.
Had my idiot manager done what I requested in the first place, I wouldn't be having to continue to clean up this mess that could have all been avoided if he had just made the phone call. But he didn't, I had to erase a (then) bad file, that turned out later to be a good file. I told the company to send the file again, since I erased it due to their not having the paperwork to back their claim (then). Then he sticks his nose in to it (now when it's not wanted) and had me re-import the erased file and clean it up. Took 1/2 a day by the way. Ugh. Then today, this company called me and asked me to re-erase the file! WTH?? I'm not going to do that, just that they don't know how to send their files to me without sending the originally erased file.... >:( So now they're going to send me "everything" and I will have to find the duplicates to erase which will now likely take me a full day to sort through (a big mess).
None of this would have happened if said idiot manager would have just made that call. Lazy SOB. And now he makes a mess for me and I yet again have to clean it up. What a jerk!!!!!
Sigh. Breathe....
Going to not even think twice about this place (work) once I walk out the door today. Just going to think about my family and fun ahead on our most likely cold and rainy weekend. Bring on the hot apple cider!!!
And now MY vent is over. Bring on the weekend!!!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
PCOS, what exactly is it? As seen from my own experiences.
PCOS, what exactly is it? As seen from my own experiences.
I’d been on BCP since I was age 18 as a means to control my acne and regulate my periods. After getting married in 2003, I came off the pill, and at first my cycles were still relatively regular. I noticed they progressively got longer and longer… 28 days, 32 days, 37 days, etc. After a few months of trying to get pregnant, I must have begun my anovulatory cycles, but didn’t know what that was or anything about it. I just figured, clearly my period was late, so I must have been pregnant, only to get negative pregnancy tests over and over.
I’d go to my OB, who would have me the pee on a stick – pregnancy test- (aka POAS) at her office, and with the continued negative tests that was it. I wasn’t pregnant. No blood work would be ordered. I was having really heavy flows by then and I was close to 300 lbs, so they chalked it up to I weighed too much.
I learned about temping/bbt from her and started doing it manually on photocopied charts. Then I joined FF (http://www.fertilityfriend.com) in 2004 and kept the data online. I started to notice strange patterns… true anovulatory patterns.
When I went for so long without a period, I was frustrated. The cycle after chart 3 here was a 3 month cycle of continuous bleeding. Can you imagine having period bleeding every day for 90 days??? I did. That freaked me out. After 1 month of my marathon bleeding, I went to see my first RE.
At that point it was clear to her that I had PCOS. She had me do the glucose test, and I failed horribly.
So we discussed “housecleaning” options. We decided to take a year off, go back on BCP to regulate my cycles and hopefully get me to stop bleeding. I had to begin the metformin (ended up at the full dose too – eventually) and I had to lose weight. She sent me to a dietician, and I began my journey to housecleaning.
I was 1 day away from having to have a D&C (scraping of my lining) to force my bleeding to stop. I stopped after 2 BC packs taken double the dose. Hormone hell! Talk about being scared straight.
I stopped temping, because with being on BCP and the housecleaning, I didn’t need too.
Fast forward to 2006. I had lost 70 pounds, and was in the best shape of my life. I had ABS! (sigh, I miss those). My RE and I decided I should come off BCP and see if my cycles had regulated themselves.
If they were still irregular after a 6 month timeframe, we’d go on Clomid.
I stayed on the metformin, but reduced the amount by ½. 2 weeks after my period, I noticed EW cm, and for giggles, I took a temp.
It was pretty low, so WTH, let’s practice right? That night resulted in my daughter.
Here’s that cycle (you’ll notice it’s vastly different):
So my RE was shocked, I was shocked, Craig was NOT prepared, as he was convinced I had 6 months of getting the BCP out of my system, and then we’d begin TTC. So much for planning, right?
I can’t remember what “symptoms” were going back so many years, but I can say that it was quite a journey. Oh, and after I got pregnant with my daughter, the pregnancy pretty much cured the whole PCOS/IR issue.
I’ve been regular to the day ever since.
I do know that 2ww symptoms and pre-pregnancy symptoms are VERY similar, so they tell you nothing. Sore breasts are a result of the progesterone surge in the 2ww that also causes elevated temps.
I finally gave up trying to tell if I was having 2ww or PG symptoms. I just chalked them all up to 2ww symptoms now.
I’d been on BCP since I was age 18 as a means to control my acne and regulate my periods. After getting married in 2003, I came off the pill, and at first my cycles were still relatively regular. I noticed they progressively got longer and longer… 28 days, 32 days, 37 days, etc. After a few months of trying to get pregnant, I must have begun my anovulatory cycles, but didn’t know what that was or anything about it. I just figured, clearly my period was late, so I must have been pregnant, only to get negative pregnancy tests over and over.
I’d go to my OB, who would have me the pee on a stick – pregnancy test- (aka POAS) at her office, and with the continued negative tests that was it. I wasn’t pregnant. No blood work would be ordered. I was having really heavy flows by then and I was close to 300 lbs, so they chalked it up to I weighed too much.
I learned about temping/bbt from her and started doing it manually on photocopied charts. Then I joined FF (http://www.fertilityfriend.com) in 2004 and kept the data online. I started to notice strange patterns… true anovulatory patterns.
When I went for so long without a period, I was frustrated. The cycle after chart 3 here was a 3 month cycle of continuous bleeding. Can you imagine having period bleeding every day for 90 days??? I did. That freaked me out. After 1 month of my marathon bleeding, I went to see my first RE.
At that point it was clear to her that I had PCOS. She had me do the glucose test, and I failed horribly.
So we discussed “housecleaning” options. We decided to take a year off, go back on BCP to regulate my cycles and hopefully get me to stop bleeding. I had to begin the metformin (ended up at the full dose too – eventually) and I had to lose weight. She sent me to a dietician, and I began my journey to housecleaning.
I was 1 day away from having to have a D&C (scraping of my lining) to force my bleeding to stop. I stopped after 2 BC packs taken double the dose. Hormone hell! Talk about being scared straight.
I stopped temping, because with being on BCP and the housecleaning, I didn’t need too.
Fast forward to 2006. I had lost 70 pounds, and was in the best shape of my life. I had ABS! (sigh, I miss those). My RE and I decided I should come off BCP and see if my cycles had regulated themselves.
If they were still irregular after a 6 month timeframe, we’d go on Clomid.
I stayed on the metformin, but reduced the amount by ½. 2 weeks after my period, I noticed EW cm, and for giggles, I took a temp.
It was pretty low, so WTH, let’s practice right? That night resulted in my daughter.
Here’s that cycle (you’ll notice it’s vastly different):
So my RE was shocked, I was shocked, Craig was NOT prepared, as he was convinced I had 6 months of getting the BCP out of my system, and then we’d begin TTC. So much for planning, right?
I can’t remember what “symptoms” were going back so many years, but I can say that it was quite a journey. Oh, and after I got pregnant with my daughter, the pregnancy pretty much cured the whole PCOS/IR issue.
I’ve been regular to the day ever since.
I do know that 2ww symptoms and pre-pregnancy symptoms are VERY similar, so they tell you nothing. Sore breasts are a result of the progesterone surge in the 2ww that also causes elevated temps.
I finally gave up trying to tell if I was having 2ww or PG symptoms. I just chalked them all up to 2ww symptoms now.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Missing my Alice Rose 9.23.08
Craig and I saw a rainbow on our drive home last night. Today is Alice Rose's 3rd birthday, anniversary from when we lost her in 2008. I'm full of emotion today. Hoping the rainbow is a sign of something greater for us. Maybe the rainbow was just a rainbow. IDK. Feeling melancholy. I miss my baby girl.
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