*yawn*

I feel worn out. And I'm not sure it's all the lifting/bending/moving/unpacking, or just being worn out. I should head to bed momentarily, but the house is eerily quiet...Cayne's at his sleep study, and I'm used to the background noise that he provides in the evening. I met him for dinner, near his office and he was dragging. He hadn't had any caffeine since about noon, which is unusual for him. He went from dinner directly to the sleep lab, and I stopped to pick up a baby gift for two of Mom's grad students who I'm friendly with (the baby was born a day or two ago, three weeks early, according to Mom) and a few other things.

I'm at an age where I end up buying lots of baby gifts...there was a phase when it was bar/bat mitzvahs, and then confirmations, and then of course graduation, then in my mid twenties, weddings, and now, it's baby things. I suppose at some point it will become funerals too.

I'm avoiding bed. And I really ought to go, so I can get up early, and shower, and go to my appointment, and the post office and then of course, back to unpacking. I just can't wrap my head around the eerie quiet.

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Dolphin needs a prosthetic tail. I think that's way cool, and might check out the donation information. The phone number is in the article.

In other news, I came home from today's doctor's appointment with a diagnosis of PCOS and a prescription for Metformin. Which is exactly what I wanted, sort of. It's good to have an answer, and it's been evident for years that PCOS was the probable cause, but there's the process of getting used to taking the medication, and the side effects, and learning how to deal with taking meds four times a day. (I know there are other ways to take it, but for now, this is what the doctor wants me to do.) The upside, however is that the doctor said "Go off the pill. It's not suppressing your cyst much if you've had two ruptures in the last couple of months. You'll probably drop weight faster if you're off the pill, and have better response to the Metformin. If you get pregnant before I see you again in January, that's fine...I'd like it if you would wait til March, but if it happens before then, it's okay. You can use any other contraceptive method you want..condoms, rhythm method. You need to keep good track of your cycles, you may want to use an OPK [ovulation predictor kit] and if you start trying in March, and you don't have success in a few cycles, or you're not ovulating, we'll talk about adding other things like Clomid."

So, what this means is that we're going to decide if and when we're ready to try again for a baby. And there's a lot of stuff to deal with there. And it also means I'm likely to create a PCOS filter, so as not to bore most of you who aren't interested in what's going on with my ovaries.

It also means that I've been told that I will probably feel very sick for at least a month as I go on the new medication, and ramp the dose up to the level that the doctor wants me at.