A Single Journey: September 2016

Sunday, September 11, 2016

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone"
~ Rose Kennedy

WTF does that mean? My Acronyms List:

WTF - What the f&#k?
U/S - Ultrasound
TTC - Trying to Conceive
SOSC - Skin on Skin Contact
RE - Reproductive Endocrinologist (Fertility Doctor)
PUPO - Pregnant Until Proven Otherwise
POAS - Pee on a Stick
PG - Pregnant
O - Ovulation (before I started TTC, O meant something different and it was a lot more fun)
M/S - Morning sickness
M/C - Miscarriage
Leroy - your period
IVF - Invitro Fertilization
IUI - Intrauterine Insemination or Artificial Insemination
HPT - Home Pregnancy Test
HCG - Pregnancy Hormone
FSH - Follicle Stimulating Hormone
ET - Egg Transfer
ER - Egg Retrieval
EDD - Estimated Due Date
DOR - Diminshed Ovarian Reserve
Cookie, Downtown, Whoo-haa - Vagina
CD - Cycle Day (i.e. CD1 is cycle day 1 or the 1st day of your cycle)
BMS - Baby Making Sex
BFP - Big Fat Positive (pregnancy test)
BFN - Big Fat Negative (pregnancy test)
BFF - Best Friend Forever (I feel like a pre-teen putting this in!)
BETA - Blood Test to check the levels of HCG (Pregnancy Hormone)
BCP - Birth Control Pills
ART - Assisted Reproductive Technologies
AF - Aunt Flo (your period) but I like to call it Leroy
2ww - Two Week Wait (the two week period after an insemination or transfer before you can get an accurate pregnancy test or better known as 2 weeks of being absolutely crazy!)

Favorite Quotes

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. ~ Lucille Ball
Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they're supposed to run wild until they find someone, just as wild, to run with. ~ Carrie Bradshaw
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller
It seemed like a good idea at the time. ~ me on many occasions
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was "thank you," that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly

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