Living with PCOS

I got the results of my blood work from last week and they said everything is consistent with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome so I had to fast last night and go in this morning to have more blood drawn. As soon as I heard though that I match up so far with PCOS, I knew it was really time to start reading up on it and  find out more than what the pamphlet they gave me said. The more and more I read, the more and more I think I have it. There could be worse things to have. And, I'll have that kick I've needed to change my lifestyle and have some time to get all of the questions that I have written down so that I can ask about it when I am told that I officially have it.

In other news, we are officially going to Paris! We have booked our hotel right in downtown Paris for the week of Jason's spring break and I am so excited!

The deposit is in!

Yesterday was the first day to book a room on the Disney cruise ship for the big 12 night European capitols cruise over the summer of 2010. We are all set! We have until March of 2010 to get a full refund if something should happen and we're unable to go. I'm really excited.

Next up though, we are looking at where to go for one last just us vacation. We are debating between St. Thomas, Costa Rica, and Paris.

Costa Rica is our third option.

St. Thomas is Jason's first choice, he really wants to go to a beach over his spring break in March. That is fine with me, but it is not my first choice.

I really want to go to Paris. And, now knowing that Jason, the guy that said the only time he wants to go to Paris is to see the Eiffel Tower fall, says he wants to go - I want to jump on that before he changes his mind! But, it is not a beach, and it would still be over spring break - so mid March - like a high of mid to upper 50s. That sure is not St. Thomas spring break weather.

So, we are just trying to decide where to go. It will cost us next to nothing as my parents are letting us use a week of their time share and we will just fly out stand by to where ever we decide to go so it would be a rental car (if we get one), activities and food to pay for.

Thoughts?

Went to the Dr today

I had made an appointment last month to be seen since I hadn't had a period in 3 months. Well today was that appointment.

It seemed like your normal yearly exam except for the fact that I hadn't had my period for so long when there was no chance that I could have been pregnant. So, they had me go to the lab to have some blood drawn. I can't even begin to tell you the last time I had blood drawn. But, they were testing for polycystic ovary syndrome. I guess in a nutshell what that is is this: in a normal ovary, one follicle matures an egg to release it each month but in polycystic ovary syndrome, many follicles are around but they do not mature or relase an egg, thus not starting or restarting your cycle.

They say it is genetic but I do not know of anyone that has it. I also do not know what this means in the future when I do wish to try for a baby. I do know that insulin plays a big factor in PCOS as it is called. They say that women that have this either have too much insulin or it doesn't do what it should. They say many women that have PCOS gain weight or have a hard time loosing it along with an increased risk of diabetes. And, PCOS is something you are born with, you just may not see signs of it until later in life. The downsides is that PCOS is linked to heart disease and high blood pressure. 

Interesting. I don't think I have it, but some of it would add up to this. We'll see. They should get the first test back around the end of the week.

I'm here

I've been staying busy with trying to finish unpacking everything before our house warming party this next weekend. I feel bad because we are not keeping our laptops downstairs, we are keeping the power cords in our office, so when my battery dies, that is it unless I go upstairs, and lately I have no battery power in my computer. So, that is mainly why I haven't posted anything real recent.

We are settling in quite nicely though. Tonks and Lupin both seem to be doing pretty well now. They love exploring things here and trying to get into new things. They will be 7 months next week and they still squeak, Tonks actually meows more than Lupin, if you can call what they do meowing. I don't mind though, I think its cute.

We have our living room unpacked, our kitchen pretty much in order, our dining room in order (except for some things that need to move upstairs) and most of our upstairs. We just have to do the decorating touches and putting up pictures and such. We have some things we have to buy still but that might not be happening right away as we wait to see what comes of our economy. 

Anyway, that's a run down on our happenings right now. Now it's time to love on the kitties and show my face of disgust at the VP debates.

I'm in!

I'm in! I'm glad that is over. I need to do some more unpacking, but we tried to go with the move and unpack as we go method. So, really, we have our office (which we don't need right now and are waiting to buy a new bookshelf) and our bathroom to finish. Once that is done, we are pretty much settled.

Not much of an update, but trying to actually give a more detailed post just takes too much thought for a Monday.

Crossing the threshold

We had our final walkthrough on our house yesterday afternoon. We had a list of items that we had noticed that needed to be addressed and we made sure that they were marked with blue tape to be fixed before Wednesday.

Today I hope to finish packing. We can't do all of it, obviously, but I hope everything else we plan to pack that we won't need prior to Friday will be done.  Wednesday we sign the papers. Right after we sign them, we have to head to our house to see our customer service guy so he can make sure that everything we had marked to be addressed before closing was. Then we go to our sales office to get the keys to the house.

That aggravates me. 

On our wedding night, Jason went with his parents towards the end of the reception to our Honeymoon suite to help them pack everything up (gifts, candy jars, etc) as they were leaving early the next morning to drive back to Phoenix. I hung out to the end of the reception talking to guests and thanking them, saying bye and such. I then proceeded to walk across the hotel property by myself, get in the elevator by myself and head to our room. I get there and the door is open, you see him, his parents, and the Eva (her stuff was in the room since that is where his side got ready) in the room. I walk in. I wanted him to carry me over the threshold but I wasn't going to ask them to leave the room, watch him pick me up and basically follow us right back in. Just a tad bit weird. 

So, I have been telling him since almost day 1 of house building that he was to carry me over right after we signed, as home owners. Now, here we are, our first visit to our house as official home owners and we are meeting this customer service guy. Sure, we won't have our keys to unlock the door and go in as he will already be in the house waiting for us. But, I did not want to have business to do first thing after we sign. All I wanted was to have him carry me over via piggy back (that is how he said he would carry me), eat pizza or panda express on our floor then start painting.

Now I'm trying to decide if I even want to bother with it. Sure, seems silly, but it is something I have always wanted. 

I hate packing

I just want to be done packing. We close a week from tomorrow on our house and we move a week from Friday. We have a fair amount of boxes stacked up in our living/dining room right now, I've emptied some of my drawers with clothes I will not wear between now and then, and most of our stuff in our spare bedroom is packed up too. I just know that if I don't keep going little by little, day by day, that there will be so much to pack the night before while I'm trying to paint. Or, so much to come back to get when all I want to do is unpack and make our house our home.