Sick Puppy

Our Labor Day weekend was filled with many emotions! Friday, we went out into the city with Jaci's coworkers to a little speakeasy from the prohibition era where you basically have to knock on the door to be let in, to an amazing cuban restaurant and ended with a rooftop bar where you could see all of the beautiful city lights! 

Saturday, we went to explore a couple of towns that we are house shopping in and came across the cutest little diner for brunch. We started thinking of how we can't wait to have our own place with our dogs and children some day. Sunday, we went to a friends house for our fantasy football draft and afterwards we played the game Loaded Questions (adult). Let me tell you, that game is HILARIOUS! I highly recommend it. 

We came home Sunday night and let the dogs out for a little and got into bed. Our girl dog, Hurley, was acting strange and wanting to go outside like every 10 minutes. It was dark so I couldn't tell at first, but she was having diarrhea. She started trembling and was just so out of it. Jaci and I decided it was best to take her to the emergency vet hospital. We put our boy dog in his crate and left for the hospital around 3am. After getting pretty lost, we finally found it. By this time, Hurley's skin was on fire. They took her back to do all of the basic tests and brought her back out to us. She was wagging her tail like crazy as they brought us to an exam room. As we waited for the doctor, Hurley started to vomit. The doc came in and she let us know about a couple of different things that could be going on. We had an option to take her home after they injected fluids under her skin, or have her stay there hooked to an IV. At this point, I have tears in my eyes at the thought of my 6.8 pound Yorkie hooked up to an IV. We opted to take her home with some anti-nausea meds. She was completely fine in the car ride home, but once we got in, the vomiting continued. We called the vet and were told not to let her have any water until noon. I had her in the bathroom with her bed in hopes she would calm down, but she wanted Jaci and Bear. I asked Jaci if she could sit in there with her to calm her down and it totally worked! Jaci is super calming. I ended up bringing a comforter and 2 pillows into the bathroom and we all slept in there for a couple hours. Needless to say, Monday was spent sleeping on and off for us and the 2 pups. It was heartbreaking to see her so sick and it was exhausting too. I guess it is semi-preparation for having a baby! (Very semi).

               Before her sickness 

              All drugged up :( 

                      Spoiled! 

         And both of the pups being lazy!

The Beginning!

The start of our journey was a very rough one indeed! On August 1st, I went in for my Day 3 blood work. 17 vials later, (on top of fasting) I am completely lightheaded and I almost passed out. I am VERY good with getting my blood taken on a normal basis and have never felt that way before. It was awful.

 I sent Jaci a text letting her know what happened and she insisted on picking me up (great wife). I was supposed to go into work that day and worked from home instead. 

Fast forward to the following week. On August 7th, I went in for my hysteroscopy. After worrying about this procedure for a couple of weeks, I found out that I had a right to worry. It was the most uncomfortable feeling ever (Sorry if I am scaring anyone!). It can definitely be different for everyone person. I was informed to take ibuprofen an hour before the procedure. I'm allergic to ibuprofen so I took a half of a pain killer. It didn't do anything for me. Just made me loopy and nauseous. Apparently my uterus isn't straight (big shock). There was also a biopsy done and that was even worse. All in all, it was like eating wasabi...the pain was there, but it didn't last long. The doctor (we will call him Dr. S) informed me that everything looked good and that my results would be back in about 5 days. 

I called the next week to find out that my blood work was all normal and so was my biopsy! (Relief) We haven't been able to go over the results with Dr. S yet but I did a lot of researching the results online. My Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) is at 3.67. According to the million websites I looked at, that could possibly mean PCOS or that means that it is really good news? I'm stumped. Now I have to wait until my next cycle to do the  hysterosalpingogram (HSG). After the hysteroscopy, I really don't know how I feel about the HSG!