It's not a toomah!! - Update

Test results from my brothers tumor are in and it was not malignant!!! Whew hew!! We are all happy and grateful.

Peach out!

Robert Milligans

This was an impromptu video that was taken the day Cole bought himself a "spy kit." As you can see he part of the kit included spy-glasses and mustache for a disguise. Check it out.

Back in the swing of things

Ok so I'm finally ready to start back on this again. I guess I can talk about it now without getting soooo pissed. For those of you who didn't know, our IVF procedure back in Nov did not take.....nor did the next one we did this past January. So needless to say we were pretty discouraged....and now broke. But we are still trying so no worries. It will happen. Will keep everyone posted.

Oh yeah, we are redoing our floors and man has it been some work. We have taken out all carpet and tile in all rooms except for the kitchen, utility room and bathrooms. We are putting down wood laminate and new baseboards. It's starting to come together nicely. I will post pictures when we are finished.

Lastly, I want to mention my little bro Diego. A week ago today he was told he had a tumor on his lung and that it had pretty much eaten up one of the three lobes on his right lung. Well, it turns out that he has had that tumor for a couple of years and had not known it. This past Tuesday he had it removed along with a third of that lung. He is doing very well and his prognosis is great. We are still awaiting the biopsy results but the doctors are confident that the tumor is benign. They also said that he will be able to be as active as he wants to be from here on out. In fact, he will have a renewed sense of energy because much of his blood was not being oxygenated because of the tumor. We are all very happy.

I tell you what I am very proud of him. He is such a trooper. Never did he feel sorry for his self and was in great spirits the whole time. Props to you little bro..I admire you.

Testing the Running Code

The Eagle Has Landed

"The implantation went perfectly," is what Dr. Barnett said at about 12:45pm yesterday. We had two good eggs for implantation and can't be more excited.

I got to go with Kelly in the transfer room. It was pretty cool. A very sterile environment that was connected by a "fast food drive thru" window to the lab where they kept our babies. The doc got Kelly all ready, then the embryologist made his grand entrance with the eggs (thank God he didn't fall because he was walking like he was carrying the world's most precious fragile piece of glass ever). The hand-off to the doctor was slow and precise then doc inserted the eggs....then Voila! we were done. The process just took a few minutes. Here's Kelly and me right before we went in the transfer room.


Kelly is at home right now on bed-rest. She can only get up to get food and go to the bathroom. She will be able to get up and move around early tomorrow afternoon.

Last night she had her first progesterone injection and it went fairly well considering it is a big-girl shot. :)

This next photo is the coolest because not many people get to see their kids when they look like this.

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers. Keep them coming because we are not done yet. We go in for our official pregnancy test next Wednesday.

Happy Turkey Day!

Update

I'm a couple of days late with this so there is a lot of info.

As you know the retrieval went well. They got 19 eggs. Well we found out on Thursday that there were only 10 eggs mature enough to fertilize and out of those 10 only 7 fertilized properly.

Friday we found out that of the 7 only 1 was "good" 3 were "average" and the rest were "poor." What does good, average and poor mean? We didn't know either. It didn't sound very good though. Nonetheless one good was better than none good so we were still very positive.

What we were told was that since they knew that there was for sure only one good egg there was no need to wait till Monday to implant them. Therefore, we were told to go ahead and come in first thing Saturday morning for implantation.

Our plan was to put in the good one and the best average one...if there was such a thing. However, when we got to the clinic this morning we were greeted with wonderful news! It turned out that overnight the "good" egg turned "excellent" and so did 3 of the "average" eggs. Apparently there is a scale that the embryologists use to grade the progress of the eggs during the incubation period. 1 is excellent, 2 is good, 3 is average, 4 is poor and 5 is ...whatever you get it.

It turns out that our eggs were just late bloomers and that was fine by us. As a result we postponed the implatation till Monday. This give the eggs a couple of more days to progress therefore giving them a chance to jockey for position....the ultimate goal being Win and Place!!

We appreciate everyone keeping us in their thoughts and prayers....SEE IT'S WORKING!!!

Step 6: The Retrieval

Yesterday Kelly and I went in for the retrieval. Everything went very well. They were able to retrieve 19 eggs!! Kelly was pretty groggy afterward. She slept most of the day and was a bit sore. Today she's still sore but is up and around.

The lab fertilized the eggs yesterday and we expect to hear from them today with a progress report. So if you think about it, barring any negative effects, we conceived yesterday. Wow.....I just keep picturing what our child will look like. I am ....we are so excited. I can't even get any work done today.

Anyway, we are due to go back in on Monday....hopefully sooner...for the implantation. Cross your fingers.

Oh yeah, we start progesterone injections tomorrow. Kelly is not looking forward to that. But no worries, I've been practicing on sticking that HUGE needle in an orange. I got it down packed. I'm so good the orange doesn't even flinch.