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TTC after 35
For all the newbies.....
it's time for a "get to know you post!!
Name & Age (if you care to share):
How long TTC & Dx:
Location:
Your job:
DH's job:
Funny quirk about you:
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Re: For all the newbies.....
Name & Age (if you care to share): Char 39...staring at 40 catching up to me in the rear view window.
How long TTC & Dx: Since 9/2008: me - high FSH... DH -slightly low Morph
Location: Albuquerque, NM...no I don't own a single piece of turquoise jewelry
Your job: retail...uuggh!
DH's job: attorney
Funny quirk about you: I have to wear socks to bed...and I have special socks that I only wear to bed and no where else...so they are called "the bed socks"
Name & Age (if you care to share): A, 39
How long TTC & Dx: Just started
Location: South of Boston
Your job: Teacher
DH's job: Music Industry
Funny quirk about you: I am not a picky eater - but I hate peanutbutter
Name & Age (if you care to share): Sarah, 35
How long TTC & Dx: TTC for 6 months, just starting testing
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Your job: Marketing Project Director
DH's job: Chef/Restaurant GM
Funny quirk about you: I naturally have one blond eyebrow & eyelashes (left side) and one dark brown eyebrow and eyelashes (right side)
Name & Age (if you care to share): Barb, 36
How long TTC & Dx: TTC 2.5 years. Dx - MFI (low motility)
Location: L.A.
Your job: 7th grade history teacher
DH's job: Engineer
Funny quirk about you: I'm addicted to lip gloss/chap stick. I have lip gloss stashed everywhere - in my car, purse, every bathroom, my desk, by my bed... I feel naked without it.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Katherine 41
How long TTC & Dx:05/09 I'm just old.
Location:Denver
Your job:accounting manager
DH's job:service supervisor
Funny quirk about you: I'm back taking ballet classes again. It's the only form of work out I can stand.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Dulcie 37...
How long TTC & Dx: Since 5/2008: Unexplained thus far through all the testing
Location: Livonia, MI
Your job: Accountant
DH's job: Accountant
Funny quirk about you: Was really shy, quiet growing up (still am in unfamilar situations) and DH can't believe I'd ever be either, he rarely sees me quiet or shy!
Name & Age (if you care to share): Fran, 39 pushing 40 fast!
How long TTC & Dx: on TTC cycle #21; dx is high FSH
Location: PA - close to Baltimore, MD one way & York, PA the other
Your job: Project Manager
DH's job: Chef
Funny quirk about you:I am addicted to pumpkin seeds!
Name & Age (if you care to share): Ann Marie, 39
How long TTC & Dx: Since 10/09, DH Dx with extrememly low testosterone, hyopogandatropism (the sounds really awful but it is ok) causing retrograde ejaculation and MFI..
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Your job: RN working outside the box in a home care pharmacy
DH's job: Attorney
Funny quirk about you: The only thing that really grosses me out is when hair falls of your body..ie you find it on the floor or in your food etc..Makes me vomit in my mouth to think about. Yep I am a RN and have seen tons of gross stuff but nothing as bad as a hair on a pillow..
Name & Age (if you care to share): Jamie -35, DH-49
How long TTC & Dx: May 2009 - trying progesterone suppositories for the first time this month.
Location: Florida
Your job: SAHM
DH's job: Environmental/Civil Engineer
Funny quirk about you: Too many to list!
Thanks, Char, for the fun post!
Name & Age (if you care to share): Holy cow, I just turned 40! (For those coming up on it, it's really fine. I feel no different physically than 38 - or 28)
How long TTC & Dx: Thanksgiving will mark a year since we decided to TTC; first cycle was last December. Dx: Me: High FSH (basically, while I feel it, I'm no longer 28. Whadya gonna do?) DH: Low morph, but other numbers are exceptionally good, so that should somewhat make up for it.
Location: Near Philly.
Your job: Freelance writer
DH's job: Scientist (biochemical engineer)
Funny quirk about you: I am addicted to farmer's markets, farm stands, U-picks, etc. DH says I need a twelve step program.
Also, to put it mildly, I'm very fond of Pennsylvania's geography, and kooky small towns, woods, farms, etc. Explanation: I've lived in other states, when I was following my former career around. One elsewhere, for 6.5 years, was a much less green, much more developed, much flatter state, which while very lovely in its own right and a popular tourist destination, made me very homesick. For the first year or so after getting back to PA, just driving through a wooded, hilly area would make me get all teary.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Juls, 38
How long TTC & Dx: 2 years, MFI and AMA (although my test results look like I'm "34 years old" to my RE)
Location: Atlanta
Your job: Paralegal
DH's job: Owns a software business
Funny quirk about you: I also have "bed socks" and I start home improvement projects in the middle of the night and never finish them. I have curtains in the dining room that are only half sewn, I started painting the guest bathroom the night before mother's day and the painters tape is still up!!!!
Name & Age (if you care to share): Carla, turned 40 in October
How long TTC & Dx: Since October 2009
Location: Atlanta
Your job: Attorney
DH's job: Management
Funny quirk about you: I have trouble telling time with clocks that don't have numbers (and even sometimes when they do)
Name & Age: Kristie 38
How long TTC & Dx: Trying for 7 months. Have first RE appt next week no Dx yet.
Location: NJ
Your Job: Financial Management Associate
DH's Job: Manager of Education Sales
Funny quirk about you: I get hate when people call me Chrissy or insist my name has to be short for Christine.
Name & Age (if you care to share): 37, going on 38.
How long TTC & Dx: Since our wedding night, May 2009. Dx: High FSH and MFI. But it looks like my high FSH is the limiting factor. Hopefully doing first IVF with ICSI January 2010.
Location: Houston, though I miss Atlanta!
Your job: Portfolio Manager
DH's job: Software Developer
Funny quirk about you: I don't like salad dressing. I eat my salads (and sandwiches) for that matter dry. I can tolerate olive oil and lemon, but that's it. Couldn't get me to eat ranch dressing for money!
Name & Age (if you care to share):
Jodi 42
How long TTC & Dx:
TTC seriously for about 4 months. No reason why it hasn't happened other then that we are older, but no physical explanation.
Location:
Cincinnati OH area
Your job:
Assistant Principal at an Elementary
DH's job:
Realtor and owns business that I help with
Funny quirk about you:
Treat my yorkies like babies so people sometimes laugh at me
Name & Age: CAT, 38
How long TTC & Dx: 1.4 years. MFI
Location: Canada
Your job: President, PR Firm
DH's job: Engineer
Funny quirk about you: I chew plastic stir sticks at work, Lots of them. I buy them specifically to chew. I don't drink coffee, nor is it a substitute for smoking. Dr. Freud would have something to say about that!
Also, I am addicted to Carmex lip stuff. And I have an unreasonable dislike of drycleaning plastic covers. Oh and I don't really like foods to touch on a plate. And...I hate coffee and chocolate. Yes I said that, hate them both!
Name & Age: Lori...a new 40!
How long TTC & Dx: March 2009 Me: Nothing in particular other than being old DH: morph
Location: NJ
Your Job: Marketing for a consulting firm
DH's Job: Attorney
Funny quirk about you: I love all things apple. Apple pie, apple strudel, apple crumb, apple turnovers, and of course, apples! I also LOVE Peeps. I'm so glad they have gone beyond Easter. I used to hate them as a kid, but now I can't get enough.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Danielle, 39
How long TTC & Dx: 11 months
Location: MD
Your job: Law firm administration
DH's job: Manager
Funny quirk about you: I know I have many but I can't think of them. Sitting in my office right now, I thought of one: I leave my keys in my office door because that way I can find them when I leave for home each night! This bothers many of my co-workers who say "hey, your keys are in your door"
Name & age: Regina, 38; DH is 40
How long TTC & Dx: Just started trying.
Location: St. Louis
Your job: Development director for a local nonprofit.
DH's job: genetics research
Quirk: I tend to eat in courses even when everything is served at the same time. I'll eat all my potatoes, for example, before I eat all of my veggies, and I eat all of those before moving to the meat. However, I don't know that I always eat the courses in that order. Just depends on what's served and what I like best.
Name & Age (if you care to share): C, 36
How long TTC & Dx: Trying since July 2009
Location: The Southwest
Your job: Research Scientist (Molecular Geneticist)
DH's job: College Instructor
Funny quirk about you: I have a thing about DH getting ice cubes out of the freezer without washing his hands immediately before getting said ice cubes. It makes me want to vomm.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Lisa Marie , 39 and 40 is around the corner
How long TTC & Dx: 2 years TTC & low count and motility
Location: Bristol, RI
Your job: Reading Specialist
DH's job: House husband
Funny quirk about you: I like jelly. I like peanut butter. The thought of them touching in a sandwich makes me want to vomit! If I make it for my DH, I use 2 different knives. Don't even get me started on Fluff....!!!
Name & Age: Fran, 40
How long TTC & DX: Since Jan 09. I have serious DOR, as evidenced by my AMH and the fact that I have only made one mature egg in three IVF cycles.
Location: Atlanta, GA
Your job: Market Research Consultant
DH's job: Software Design Consultant
Funny quirk about you: I can rattle off the names of all 50 states in alphabetical order really fast. And I absolutely must sleep with my sleep mask. Can't stand any light anywhere when I sleep.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Brandi, 35
How long TTC & Dx: Just 2 cycles now...no DX so far, although my cycle is 5 days late and I'm not PG...I think the stress of my fathers recent death and my wedding finally caught up with me and possibly delayed ovulation.
Location: Dallas TX
Your job: Teacher
DH's job: Narcotics Agent
Funny quirk about you: I can't stand for my food to touch on my plate! If it's a food that seeps out liquid it has to go into a bowl.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Susan, 39 but not for much longer
How long TTC & Dx: 2 years TTC, High FSH, severe endo & MFI
Location: South Central PA
Your job: owner of a engineering consultanting co, which currently means I am doing the bookkeeping.
DH's job: Engineer
Funny quirk about you: I love playing tennis with DH and although I have never won a match against him and barely win a game, I look forward to playing everyday and am disappointed when we can't.
Dx MFI, AMA, Endo, AMH .16
Lap 10/09 Removed endometrioma, stage IV endo and adhesions
Lap 2/10 Endometrioma cysts & adhesions returned.
Ivf #1 4/10 Antagonist, ET Cancelled.
IVF #2 2/11 A/ACP+E2V C/P
IVF #3 6/11 Letrozole/Antagonist BFN
IVF #4 11/11 Low stim Antagonist BFN
Lap 3/12 Lap & Selective HSG
Many cycles of Letrozole and LP HCG w/TI and LDN
IVF #5 8/12 Low stim BFN
IUI #1 10/12 BFN br> S&PAIFW
Name & Age (if you care to share): Courtney , 35
How long TTC & Dx: about 1 year, PCOS
Location: Chicago suburbs
Your job: I left my job last month, but I worked in hospice as a volunteer coordinator
DH's job: Works for a pharmaceutical company
Funny quirk about you: The smell of coffee makes me gag.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Kiki (Erica), me 39, dh 31 next week
How long TTC & Dx: Will start TTC after our wedding in April (I've been lurking for a while, and occasionally de-lurk, so I hope you don't mind my chiming in -- I'm a great cheerleader, and know I'll be grateful for some encouragement myself starting in about 5 months!); so far the only things I know about what we might be up against is that I'm "old" and have (managed) hereditary HBP
Location: Northern NJ
Your job: art museum collection manager
DH's job: photography retail
Funny quirk about you: I fidget a lot when I am getting ready to fall asleep. It takes me a while to get settled. I try to always go to bed earlier than FI so that I'm done with my squirming when he gets into bed.
photo by Scott Metzger
kikijbird ~ Erica (aka Kiki) & Paul ~ 24 April 2010
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How long TTC & Dx:?almost 2 years (including 1 m/c), unexplained infertility
Location:?Los Angeles, CA
Your job:?sound editor for films
DH's job:?film & TV editor
Funny quirk about you:?I can't stand the sound of people chewing/eating, especially if they don't keep their mouths closed and especially at breakfast. ?My defense is to either eat something myself t(o drown out the noise) or to get up & leave the room.
Char, thanks for the fun post!
Name & Age (if you care to share): B, 37 in a game of chicken with 38...my money is on 38 winning that one.
How long TTC & Dx: couple months. MC last month and waiting for AF so we can start again.
Location: Connecticut
Your job: currently looking since being laid off
DH's job: television industry
Funny quirk about you: A couple come to mind...
I must sleep with a fan. Thankful for DH's iPhone white noise app. It saved me on our honeymoon!
I also have to keep our dishes in a particular color order. Our set is three sets of four different colors. I have a compulsive need to keep them in the same order - green, blue, brick, maize. Green, blue, brick, maize, etc.... Drives DH bonkers. It also means I am either putting the dishes away every time or rearranging after he does. I remind him he new about this quirk before we were married and he went through it anyway!
Name & Age (if you care to share): Katie, 35
How long TTC & Dx: Since 7/2008, no diagnosis yet, but a lot of bad luck
Location: Chicago
Your job: Teacher
DH's job: owns his own business
Funny quirk about you: I'm addicted to couponing and Fritos.
Name & Age (if you care to share): Tara - 35
How long TTC & Dx: hm...on purpose? 10 months or so. We've had two miscarriages - one a partial molar and the other a "your eggs are getting old" m/c
Location: Colorado - and no, I don't love skiing.
Your job: HS English teacher
DH's job: HS Science teacher - in the same building
Funny quirk about you: The first thing I have to do in the morning is brush my teeth. I canNOT do anything else before that.
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