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First week without my boys. I stayed busy, busy, busy so it wasn't that bad, but at night time it was little hard to fall asleep. I had a doctors appointment with one of my doctor's in Salt Lake and I got to meet the doctor here in Boise, his name is Dr. Chai. It is great that my heart transplant doctor's in Salt Lake communicate with Dr. Chai here. There are 13 other LVAD or transplant patients that Dr. Chai and his nurse practitioner's are in charge of here in Boise. Every time I have a doctors appointment here I know who I am going to be seeing and that is exactly what I wanted. This appointment was just a clinic visit and to meet Dr. Chai and his staff. My prograf level was a little low, so they bumped me up. Now I am taking 3 mg of prograf in the morning and 2 mg at night. I am going to retest my levels on Wednesday this coming week. My liver enzymes were slightly elevated, so they retested that and it went back down. I also discussed with my doctors about the different pills Dr. Peterson wants me to begin. Dr. Peterson is our doctor for our surrogacy process. To make this easy all the doctors are on the same page and we are moving forward to retrieve my eggs. On Wednesday after meeting Dr. Chai I started taking DHEA, COQ 10, birth control and Lovenox. They switched off eliquis on to Lovenox, which is another blood thinner that has more relative research behind it because they were nervous about my developing a blood clot while taking birth control. Lovenox is a shot and it sort of stinks, but it is so worth a little mini me. The plan is to retrieve my eggs at the beginning of next year and that is only 6 weeks away. With all the upcoming holidays it is going to be here before we know it! Our surrogate had a sick baby last Tuesday and had to switch her appointment to meet with the attorney. She rescheduled for this upcoming week. After that we will be almost done with all the legal stuff and on to the next step.

After my doctor's appointment on Wednesday I decided to go to the temple. It was so nice to go and feel God's love. I am so grateful to have a temple so close. Every time I enter His house all my worries and thoughts vanish and turn to God Almighty. During this past week I have felt a little lonely whenever my brain isn't going 100mph, but I know that God is always there right beside me. I love Him with all my heart and my willingness to do whatever He asks of me, I will go and do.


Us on top of Table Rock in Boise




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