06.29.16 – My Sister is Coming to Visit!

06/29/2016

I had to go in for my first official beta test today.  You know, the thing I was supposed to go in for last month, instead of waiting around like a goober?

A beta test is a quantitative hCG blood test.  It measures the amount of hCG in your system.  Unlike a home pregnancy test – the kind you pee on – this one can actually detect the exact amount, down to 1 mIU/ml.  Most home tests can only detect down to about 20-25 mIU/mL…unless you get the First Response ones. And even then it’s just binary – yes or no – whereas the beta test will tell you not only if there’sany hCG in your blood stream, but also how much. Pretty cool.

A “positive” beta test is as little as 2 mIU/ml, but most doctors don’t really consider you pregnant unless it’s 5 or higher.  Some wait until it’s over 20.

Anyway, none of that matters because mine was a big fat zero.

Yay for failed IUIs.

It’s okay.  At least I’m not waiting around on AF and wondering like last month.

In other news…my sister called!  She misses me…and so she and my niece are coming out to visit me July 12-19th!! I am over the moon excited!

This is exactly what I need.  Maybe taking a break from all the stress and hanging out with my sister for a few days will put me in a better place.  Bradley (my neice) has been out here before, but she’s never really done the touristy stuff.  She came when she was a baby for my college graduation (and doesn’t even remember it), she came out for our wedding, but she was a bridesmaid and helped prep wedding stuff and didn’t get to go too many places…and she came out here a couple Christmases ago, but we just hung out and did holiday-type stuff.  This will be her first huge LA trip, and I’m taking her EVERYWHERE!

I’ve warned them…we’re not stopping treatment while they’re here.  There’s a huge chance we will have to spend part of our time at Dr Landay’s office, getting me prepped for another IUI, and then more time actually getting the IUI, but Genia’s pretty excited about that, too.

Oh, and it’s also my best friend Sandy’s birthday that week, so we’re supposed to be going to Universal Studios/Harry Potter World that week, too.  I’ve warned her that we’re plowing ahead, so I may be late to her party.

But – this is going to be an amazing month.  I feel it!