Random thoughts through random paragraphs (no this won’t have any cohesiveness).

Why am I in so much pain? I think I know the answer but I’m waiting until my rheumatologist says it first. I can’t even scratch my legs these days or put lotion on my arms…Indy just has to rub up against me and I cry out. I can’t rest my arm or legs against something or it hurts. The fatigue is getting to me too. I am noticing a bit of a pattern to my pain though. After I ovulate, when my progesterone is the highest, my pain gets pretty bad. Stress and changes in my sleep patterns also effect it. These two weeks have been miserable. Sometimes I forget that my body is so sensitive to touch that I’ll lean against the counter only to flinch one second later from the pain.

I was really hoping that I was pg this month. (oh, wait, I think that’s every month) But getting pg this cycle would have been even sweeter. I wouldn’t have to do my IVP in two days (CT of my kidney’s with contrast dye through an IV), I wouldn’t have to get my wisdom teeth out next week, and I wouldn’t have to do the lap surgery in Oct. My boobs hurt so much this time around (I sneezed in the car and felt like my boobs had been hit by a two ton boulder) that I actually thought I was pg until I got another negative two days ago. I’m planning to test again on Friday before the IVP just to make sure.

You know what’s funny? Carrying a HUGE jug of urine for a mile through a parking lot to the doc clinic and having people stare at you is what’s funny. That’s what happened to me today. Want to have all eyes on you? Just carry a condensation wrapped, bright orange (though in a plastic Target bag), gallon sized, pee filled container into the lab. I have to collect my urine for 24 hrs once a year for my kidneys but seeing it next to the fruit cups in the refrigerator is still quite disturbing (poor Dh). Indy ran for cover as I had to shake it “for one timed minute” after each use. All I can say is that I’m glad that’s over!

Happy almost Labor Day everyone!