Mom
19 May 2009 Leave a Comment
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For me the word Mom or Mama (think Spanish) has meant one person, until now. This past mothers day that has really shifted for me. More and more each day its gets clearer how Joy embodies motherhood, how she exudes a nurturing, caring, loving, beings that has no word can convey its powerfulness and beauty. We celebrated mothers day by going to a small breakfast place in Berkeley “The Homemade Cafe”, this was the place where we eat on our first date, and it was just fitting to start the day there. We then took in some time in Napa, enjoying the warm day together, and doing one of the things we both love the most, eating excellent food. I find that each day, my whole perspective, life, being aligns more and more to the future. It is a strange feeling to start seeing with a different set of eyes, how the world is changing focus on a daily basis. Lots of folks have said “Just you wait till you are a parent…” and for the first time i can start to get what they are talking about. Humm, wow, they day that bundle arrives things are really gonna shift! and i can’t wait.
Here is a picture of Joy at the start of our mother’s day.
sweet 16, weeks that is
19 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
Into our 16th week now, and things are going very well. We saw our midwives last Monday and all was good. The belly is the right size for 16 weeks! Joy is very glad that all the nausea and general “yuk” of the first trimester are done with, and she has been feeling much better for a while now.
Last weekend she felt this little one move, as she puts it “I felt a little fluttery movement”. The next day I put my hand one her belly as she noted that she could feel something moving again. I did feel movement, we both looked at each other with a “that could be a the little one, or something else”. Its so exciting to be even entertain the notion that we felt our child move for the first time. With more time the movements i am sure will get more pronounced. We have been having a lot of fun coming up with names, we have settled on none yet, and i am sure we will come to a great set of names by the time the the little one arrives.
In the next few weeks we will have one more ultrasound to check out that all is going well. We have chosen to not find out the gender of the itty bit till he/she joins us out here.
All is very exciting, and it seems that each week is passing with extraordinary speed! very soon we will have a new video camera, will post a video once i get it all put together.
Staying positive, return is positive!
24 Jan 2009 3 Comments
On Friday we took our first pregnancy test at the lab. After a few hours of nail biting, we got the results: positive.
Joy called me at work, and said “You are going to be a dad”.
we have been enjoying the good news, and slowly calling frineds and family to share the news.
We want to share the good news with everyone that has supported us so much, and say thanks.
Thank you for all your support, all the times you have held us in your thoughts, prayers, space, love, and all the other ways you have sent such good favor. There is still plenty of road to go, and we are well underway.
Joy wanted to take the home test, so she did tonight, the image above is the result of the home test! soo awesome!
So much to give thanks for
27 Nov 2008 1 Comment
Today is a day set a side to give thanks in the US. So I take this opportunity to give thanks to everyone that has given so much to our journey. Joy and I are truly fortunate to have so many people we know and don’t know offer so much to us as we move closer to creating family. Each of you that has sent an email or called us up, or asked how we are doing, or listened to us, and just read our posts, thanks! you make a huge difference in our lives. I am thankful for Maeapple and Becky for being such amazing generous sisters and giving so much to Joy, our dreams could not come true with out you both. I am thankful that we don’t have to walk this path alone and have the luxury of our friends and family.
I just love her so much
16 May 2008 Leave a Comment
Just got an email from Joy (she is traveling at the moment), her second period started this morning.
We had a long conversation this morning while i drove to work, she has been gone for some 10+ days now and i miss her. This morning i woke up missing her tons. Being away from each other is hard, and i don’t really like it 
and i know she is having a great time traveling.
Getting the news just now that her period started for the 2nd time, just makes me so happy. Even with all the thoughts that race through my head about “what if… its stops happening… what if…. …” i am still very happy.
I am filled with love for Joy. She is an amazing woman, manifesting in every aspect of her being.
I love you
I also wanted to say thanks to everyone that has continued to support us is so many ways. We are privileged to receive so much love and care.
Staying on the path
27 Apr 2008 Leave a Comment
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Over the past months the ride on the path we are on has been tough. Going from yes it is going to work, to maybe it wont. Seeing test results that are not favorable, and then seeing them change. It is a ride like i never been on before. When Joy told me yesterday about the good news i can’t express how happy that had me be. Is as if an entire universe busted open right in front of me. I am thrilled. This really feels like turning a corner.
the big red dot
26 Apr 2008 5 Comments
Today, Saturday April 26, 2008
I started my first natural period in over four years
As many of you have been following and supporting me on this crazy ride I wanted to share with you all the news
This means that the ovary is working and we can start trying to get pregnant for real!!!
in the home stretch
31 Jan 2008 1 Comment
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The next set of blood test I will do will be this coming up Monday. They are the tests where we expect the results to show my hormones balancing out in the right direction. If all is well I should see a period cycle in mid February. A lot of if’s. again we just have to wait and see. I wish they would just do an ultrasound to see if any of the folicles look like they are working. I am tiered of waiting.
I spent a week in Montana with my friends “the Funks” we have known each other for ten years. they are really good friends and good people. They have five kids. while i was there i remembered the moment i decided i wanted to have children of my own. It was the moment that their third was born. I was in the delivery room, I watched her come into the world, I panicked when she didn’t breath right away, I was overwhelmed when she started to cry, and when they handed her to her mother and she had that moment of instinct, she knew her mother, she knew what to do, it was the most beautiful thing i had ever seen . I remember thinking “I want that” ” I want to do that someday, to be part of that someday”. it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen or been a part of till that moment. It was a perfect moment. that was eight years ago. I still remember everything it made me feel. still makes me feel. still has me have hope that i will have that someday
Transplant photos, and an update
04 Nov 2007 Leave a Comment
in Fertility, Fertility Photo, General, Operation
Close to a week since the operation and Joy is doing well. It has been a time to get rest, and stay close to home. The incision is healing well, and the pain is going down every day. It is now again a waiting period. Waiting and getting regular monthly blood work to see what the hormone levels are, so that we can figure out if it is all working as expected. As we settle down back at home, it all feels very right, and hope for success is in the air
It should be right around the 1 year mark of the first attempt/transplant that we should have some confirmation that it is all working as expected.
Dr. Silber took some photos of the operation last Monday, and was kind enough to pass them along to us. I have uploaded them and wanted to share them here.
PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE GRAPHIC IN NATURE. IF THE SIGHT OF BLOOD MAKES YOU ILL, DO NOT CLICK TO SEE
Landed home, and its good to be home
31 Oct 2007 Leave a Comment
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We got home just a little bit ago.
Joy is exhausted from the long flights, and airports, and wheelchairs. It takes a lot to get her down, and these flights really take a lot out of her. So its good to finally be home, and have some downtime, even though it is Halloween.
I will be staying home with her the next few days, and make sure she gets lots of rest.
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