Blenheim
Ideal_Rock
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Re: The Official TTC Thread!
Dreamer, LizzyAnn, and Hou - Big hugs as that made me feel a lot better, and thank you! EB looked up some info for me and it turns out that 24 is the median for 11 dpo. 28 low, my butt.
I guess I was kind of abrupt about G, huh? The doctor's been saying for at least 6 months that there's a chance he will need surgery to correct his strabismus (lazy eye), but that he wants us to keep patching for 3 hours per day first to make sure that the eyes are equally strong. I've expected him to say that G will need surgery at the last two appointments now, so it isn't a huge surprise, but it still wasn't good news to hear. He is going to have to keep patching and then follow up in another 8 weeks so that they can do the full workup again and take all of their measurements and readings, and at this point they are looking for his vision to be stabilized before surgery as well as to verify that they know the exact degree to which they are going to need to do things. So surgery itself will not be for a couple of months. It's just the one eye that's bad, but evidently each eye has 6 muscles and it is much easier to get them in alignment by operating on one muscle in each of the eyes than to operate extensively just on the bad one. It involves general anesthesia, which I am not wild about, but is an outpatient procedure that they do a lot of. When G has his patch on, we frequently have random people come up to us and ask us why we're patching and then talk about having this surgery when they were a kid, and their eyes always look completely normal to me, so that's another good sign.
NEL - that new job sounds really tempting and like it would be a great environment. It would be really hard to have to switch gears again with your TTC timeline, but I would have LOVED to work part-time for the first few months instead of going back full into the swing of things. Is there a minimum amount of time you'd have to work for them before the maternity leave kicks in? That's going to be a really tough decision; good luck!
LC - good luck this week!
Dreamer, LizzyAnn, and Hou - Big hugs as that made me feel a lot better, and thank you! EB looked up some info for me and it turns out that 24 is the median for 11 dpo. 28 low, my butt.
I guess I was kind of abrupt about G, huh? The doctor's been saying for at least 6 months that there's a chance he will need surgery to correct his strabismus (lazy eye), but that he wants us to keep patching for 3 hours per day first to make sure that the eyes are equally strong. I've expected him to say that G will need surgery at the last two appointments now, so it isn't a huge surprise, but it still wasn't good news to hear. He is going to have to keep patching and then follow up in another 8 weeks so that they can do the full workup again and take all of their measurements and readings, and at this point they are looking for his vision to be stabilized before surgery as well as to verify that they know the exact degree to which they are going to need to do things. So surgery itself will not be for a couple of months. It's just the one eye that's bad, but evidently each eye has 6 muscles and it is much easier to get them in alignment by operating on one muscle in each of the eyes than to operate extensively just on the bad one. It involves general anesthesia, which I am not wild about, but is an outpatient procedure that they do a lot of. When G has his patch on, we frequently have random people come up to us and ask us why we're patching and then talk about having this surgery when they were a kid, and their eyes always look completely normal to me, so that's another good sign.
NEL - that new job sounds really tempting and like it would be a great environment. It would be really hard to have to switch gears again with your TTC timeline, but I would have LOVED to work part-time for the first few months instead of going back full into the swing of things. Is there a minimum amount of time you'd have to work for them before the maternity leave kicks in? That's going to be a really tough decision; good luck!
LC - good luck this week!
This will be my first month trying and i am so excited!
). I got mine from amazon.
haha!
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