I just wanted to give everyone a brief update. I know its been a bit since my last post.
I decided it was time to focus on creating some distractions in my life. I realized I was letting infertility define me. I was letting it win and just making myself the infertile one. There is much more to each and every one of us then just being tagged with a stigma. I have suggested in the past to find yourself some new hobbies or anything to just really keep busy.
I ended up putting an advertisement up for a dog walking service in my town in exchange for donations toward my IVF costs. I got a client this past week so I get to go and walk her two doggies a few times a week. I chose this because it allows me to get out and exercise (to lose more weight) and I can earn a little money toward our procedure. Our procedure is financially planned for July. We have saved $3500 and raised $855 via Go Fund Me.  Total cost for us will be roughly $9000.
My second thing is I decided to Volunteer and I love it! I get to Volunteer with some amazing people and learn a lot. I walk to the Volunteer position so its more exercise! I got to help out with the Exceptional Family member program this week and really enjoyed coming up with some crafts for those kids to do while they are out enjoying an evening out. I also got to give some advice to young families and really enjoyed myself.
Now the TMI part of my blog updates.
My cycle has changed! I am not sure what is going on but since October I have always had 26 day cycles with a Positive OPK on Day 9. I tested all the way to Day 12 this month and only got negatives. I ran out of tests so husband and I just went with the get busy every other day theory. It is hard to maintain hope after this many years of trying but I figure we may as well continue to try especially since the doctors can not figure out what  the problem is. They said maybe its weight so I dropped almost 40 pounds. I still have 15 to go before we can do IVF.
I will post more tomorrow as I just got done reading a very interesting article published my Popular Science on what may be causing some couples to be infertile.

<3 Have a wonderful Friday!