AUTHOR: Sara TITLE: Cursing the OPK yet again DATE: 2/13/2005 06:18:00 PM ----- BODY:

Did I ever tell you how much I loathe OPKs? (oh yeah, I guess I did.) Just when I think I am understanding the process, I get two positives two days in a row, yet no temperature spike. The only difference between these 2 tests is that the lines were the same color, where as before when I had positives, the test line was always super, super dark. So, I am left wondering if I have already ovulated. I am starting to consider buying a fertility monitor in the hopes that it will make things easier. My sinus infection is in full-swing. I have done nothing but lay around all day, putting off the lesson plans and research paper that I should have completed by now. I took a nap and had a dream that someone had installed cameras in all of my air-conditioning vents throughout the house and when I played back the videos, it played my childhood in fast-forward and then showed Mike and I getting our freak on. Bizarre. With some good news, my friend Yvette recently called. She has been married for 11 years, trying for the majority of those to have a child. Her doctors discovered she had 9 fibroids of varying size growing in her uterus and she had them removed through a lengthy procedure about two years ago. They told her her chances of conceiving were small because she had such severe scar tissue. She called to say she is 13 weeks pregnant. I could not be more happy for her. I'm up for suggestions on the OPK front. Has anyone found the monitor more reliable? What about the saliva microscope?

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