{"id":758,"date":"2007-10-01T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T08:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=758"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:15:04","slug":"now-i-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/10\/01\/now-i-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I understand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems that my stress levels of the last two weeks were not a result only of my to-do list.&nbsp; Yesterday, I suddenly realized that my issues were significantly hormonally based (you can all figure out what tipped me off, I&#8217;m sure).&nbsp; So, it was something of a relief to know that my inability to cope for the last two weeks was actually directly related to my body and not to a sudden decrease in my over-achiever status!&nbsp; And thanks again for all your encouragement for the last two weeks&#8230;you all rock!<\/p>\n<p>Along those lines, however, my &#8220;realization&#8221; also means that my cycle has started over, and I&#8217;m still not pregnant.&nbsp; I did wonder two weeks ago if I was close to ovulation, but the signs were never obvious enough, so I missed it again. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/bummed.gif\">&nbsp; And now it looks like I will definitely reach my infertility &#8220;deadline&#8221; before we manage to get pregnant on our own (we haven&#8217;t been preventing it for almost 18 months).&nbsp; Earlier this year, I set December as the limit for when I would stop hoping it would happen on its own and go to the doctor to start pursuing other options.&nbsp; I was really hoping I wasn&#8217;t &#8220;broken&#8221; enough to need medical intervention, but I guess I&#8217;m going to have to make that phone call. &nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/sad.gif\">&nbsp; Anyway, I know some of you have been praying with us about all this, so please continue to do so.&nbsp; Maybe one of these days, we&#8217;ll have some better news to share.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for some happier thoughts&#8230;it was a very good weekend!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday night was date night.&nbsp; Dinner at Champps, then some browsing at Barnes &amp; Noble and MicroCenter.&nbsp; It was nice to be &#8220;stuck&#8221; in the car together so we had to talk to each other.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Saturday, I got lots of work done for grad school and Basic English (I caught up again!).&nbsp; Then we had <a href=\"http:\/\/elhogue.homeip.net\/%7Eeric\/gallery2\/v\/family\/debsparty2007\/\" target=\"_new\">Deb&#8217;s birthday party<\/a> on Saturday night.&nbsp; And the Buckeyes won, though I did not stay up for the game.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday was church, a light supper, got all my work done, played a computer game, and went to small group.&nbsp; Then home and to bed.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So all in all, I was productive (I even cleaned the bathrooms!), I was social, and we got to be early every night.&nbsp; So lovely!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems that my stress levels of the last two weeks were not a result only of my to-do list.&nbsp; Yesterday, I suddenly realized that my issues were significantly hormonally based (you can all figure out what tipped me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/10\/01\/now-i-understand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}