A doctor told my early-pregnant friend on Monday "After doing an ultrasond, I don't see anything. So, the only proof we have that you are pregnant is that you say you are."

Hello, Doctor - I'd like you to meet my son, CJ. Yep, same kind of thing, though in my case it was the tech who was an ass. Between me being very overweight and miscounting how pregnant I was, nothing showed up on the ultrasound. Luckily my doctor was a little more of a human and agreed to schedule another ultrasound a week later with one of the highly skilled technicians. And now I have an 11 year old source of utter frustration who I adore beyond reason.

Yeah, nice, and also, couldn't Doc just make the woman pee on another stick?

I know! For whatever reason (likely $ because a blood test is more expensive), the doctors here don't do a $.25 pee-on-a-stick test at your first appointment.

This is the same place that told me that if I liked pain, they wouldn't force me to accept an epidural, but that they wouldn't "change how they practice medicine just for me." You can see what I don't go there anymore.

eta: Suzi, I'm going to pass on your story. My poor friend is pretty freaked out right now.

The work that's scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday) might get canceled. Some un-job-ma please.

i'll have to take pictures to see if it's Hec approved.

::eagerly awaits opportunity to validate tiggy::

My overnight business trip was unexpectedly exhausting.

On the plus side:

1) Our clients sent bonuses to everyone on the project team, including me, even though I've only been on this project since September.

2) The sum total of people in the office today: three, including the temp. Yuletide story, here I come.

Stephanie - the week between those two ultrasounds was horrific. I believe I cried for 7 days straight. That was a worse experience than my miscarriages. With those, I KNEW something wasn't right, but with CJ, I had been so sure I had a good pregnancy and why couldn't THEY just see it.

I send her lots of ~ma.

I've gone all CFL with a couple of natural spectrum here and there. I foolishly bought some 100 Watt equivalent bulbs by noit paying attention and those are way bright, but otherwise I'm not noticing the CFLs particularly. Last time I made sure I had natural spectrum everywhere I really noticed it, though. I think I've got mire windows, here.

Good luck with the endocrinologist, Hil.

blerg. I hate the CFL light bulbs I have. They fugly!

"After doing an ultrasond, I don't see anything. So, the only proof we have that you are pregnant is that you say you are."

"What a coincidence! The only proof I have that you've provided any services requiring payment from me or my insurance company is you saying you have."

The VA couldn't figure out for a couple weeks that my SIL was pregnant. Of course, neither could she, but they had equiptment and tests and shit, they just didn't know how to use them correctly. So she had weeks where they kept pushing all these horrible diagnoses on her. That were wrong. When she ran into one of the stupid people months later, she held T up and said "I was pregnant, you dumbass." She really isn't tactful or forgiving. But she's pretty funny about it.