http://drew.staypuppy.com Introspection and Hand-Wringing since 1967 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:40:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To write the story of Alex, I have to start with the story of Harvey. Harvey was an australian shepherd that was my first dog as an adult. I got Harvey about 2 seconds after I got married the first time and we secured a little house in San Diego to ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2009/03/25/the-end-of-an-era/ We had our second official prenatal appointment today.  At Kaiser they have a system for these things and today's appointment is a sort of class/lab day.  You see videos about eating right and the nature of testing for various birth defects.  They do a urine and blood test and you ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/12/23/prenatal-2-isabelle-and-other-worries/ I kind of don't know where to begin.  Our whole year had built to a fevered pitch of tension and stress.  Disappointment after disappointment was the order of the day and it was hard to even know how to think about what lay ahead back in August or so.  Amy and I ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/12/22/radio-silence-is-lifted/ We have family in Las Vegas, Lake Chelan-Washington, and on the Big Island of Hawaii and we try to visit all of them as often as possible.  We also try to take vacations on our own every now and again.  The plan that we have tried to work with over the ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/08/07/family-vacation-in-paradise/ It's been about a month since I tried my hand at this.  Most days I would at least consider feeding the blog - emptying my mind of what was going on inside me.  Each day, though, I would look into the void and I saw nothing but darkness.  I could ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/07/16/glass-13-full/ And......we're back.  After a bit of a self-imposed hiatus trying to wrap our heads around exactly where we are and what we're supposed to do in light of the (perhaps) expected and (certainly) disappointing negative results of the first IVF cycle. We went on vacation.  We talked to family.  We talked ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/06/19/round-two/ We had our follow up appointment with Dr. Rosen today.  As we waited and prepared for this post-failed-first IVF appointment, we reasoned that we were just going to be told the process for the "frozen transfer" since we were well aware of the the two frozen embryos we still have in ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/06/12/dilemma/ I think I've come to terms with the fact that it was always unlikely that we were going to be successful on the first go-round through the IVF process.  As you go through it, though, and overcome so many hurdles of the different appointments and master the drug regimen, you're ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/05/21/my-happy-tastes-like-sad/ In the past few weeks I have read "The Perks of being a Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky,  "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World," by Haruki Murakami and "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.  As I have mentioned before, I am not very comfortable offering any kind of critical ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/05/16/elephants-wallflowers-and-the-end-of-the-world/ Today is T minus 4 days until we get the official blood test to tell us if all of this effort is going to pay off for us.  The wait has been a little harder on Team Jensen than I thought it would be, but perhaps I was being naive.  ... http://drew.staypuppy.com/2008/05/16/still-waiting/