More Waiting

Hi friends and family. Most of you probably know that I had an endometrial biopsy. That was very much not fun. The biopsy was done because PCOS causes menstrual problems. Well….. my cervical lining was really thick because of it. Because of its condition, the doctor was certain that I had hyperplasia. This is when the lining takes a plastic-like condition. Hyperplasia can be simple, which means that the cells have not turned cancerous. Or it can be atypical hyperplasia, which indicates that the cells are either pre-cancerous or cancerous. I found out today that, thankfully, I have simple hyperplasia. The doctor was surprised that the condition had only reached the point that it had. He explained that if it had been atypical, that there was a 40% chance that I would have a coexisting type of cancer. 

While this was phenomenal news, I was also given somewhat depressing news. No fertility ANYTHING for at least three months. I am being started on Provera. This is derived from the hormone progesterone. I will have to take it for 20 days, then be off of it for 10 days. This has to continue for three months. After this, we will be able to go through the in vitro fertilization.  So kind of good news, kind of not. At first I was pretty bummed out about all of this, but it truly is for the best. I will not be able to carry a baby in the condition I am in, and I cannot imagine the heartbreak of a miscarriage, so I know that this must be done, regardless of how much the waiting process kills me.

Enough of the medical stuff…. The latest in Brian and I’s life is that we are going to be hosting two exchange students!!! We decided that we hated living in a quiet house, and were yearning to have daily interaction with children (even teenagers-I know, we are crazy)…. So we debated between fostering and hosting an exchange student. Even though I have a deep desire to foster children, we decided that foreign exchange students would fit best with our life at the moment. We will be able to introduce their culture and make an influence in their life, while they will provide us with the full household that we desire. We are going to be fostering a 10^th grade girl from Thailand and a 9^th grade boy from China. I hope that each of you in our lives will accept these students with open arms and help us enrich their lives while they are with us for the school year.  We are looking for fun things to do with them, so any ideas would be appreciated. 

We are also going to be moving into our new house within the next couple of weeks!! (Technically, we haven’t got the appraisal back, so things could change…. But the lady at the mortgage company told us that she didn’t see a problem with it coming back okay). We are looking for some dressers, etc. for the student’s bedrooms, so if you have something you would like to sell us, please let me know! 

So for now, I will leave you all. I hope to keep updating this. I know that when the students are here, I will have lots of experiences to share, and hopefully after the treatments are done, I will have more to share about the baby situation. Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers, we could always use a miracle.

-J