Over a Year Now

About a year ago Cam and I got the go-ahead from the docs to resume our attempts at procreating. Sounds romantic, huh? My body didn't react so well to all the drugs I had to take for the last ectopic (Oct '07) so it took quite a bit longer to get back to feeling somewhat normal again. So for the past year we've been trying without any luck to get pregnant and it leaves me to wonder... I never had trouble with infertility before. We were getting pregnant within 3-6 months of trying but just couldn't manage to stay that way. I kept telling myself, "we'll give it a year and see what happens, then we can look at our options."

So here we are, a year plus a month later. But what are our options? What are we doing? Well, surprisingly or not we aren't really looking too far or wide for our options. But we aren't idle, either. I prefer to keep treatments involving drugs as a very last resort so that slims down our options quite a bit. While I was online I ran into some random tabloid type headline saying something about someone doing something to increase chances of having twins. This caught my attention, I read, researched, and one thing led to the next and I landed at an article about chiropractic care aiding conception. When I was in massage school I had an instructor for A&P who was a chiropractor, and now Adi attends preschool with his daughter (where his wife Dana also teaches) so he immediately came to mind. I was quickly convinced to give it a try.

So I've been seeing Dr. Ron Robinson for the past couple of months. Naturally I had high hopes for immediate conception, which obviously didn't happen. Though what I have experienced is immediate improvement. I used to feel ovulation, to the point that I would have painful cramps for at least 2 days each month and then quite painful menstrual cycles two weeks later. It's been this way for as long as I can remember. When I say that I can't feel ovulation anymore, it's 99% true. I can feel it, distinctly on one side or the other. But it doesn't hurt. I don't have cramps. It's not painful anymore. Wow. When you endure pain for so many years you forget that it doesn't actually have to be that way. And menstrual cramps? Minimal. Hardly noticeable. I'm beside myself.

Happy Birthday Papa!

On Friday we celebrated Papa's birthday with dinner at Midtown Restaurant and an amazing new favorite, the raspberry cheese cake from the Co-op. Totally, completely out of this world good.






It doesn't take much to get Miss Adi acting crazy these days, visits with Nana and Papa are certainly no exception!

I'm Posting This on All Three of My Blogs

John McCabe from Sunfood Living
sent out an email last week about his new book.

Here is what he wrote:


Hello everybody,

After years of work, I have decided to pass over the traditional book
publishing fiasco and to publish my newest book on an
advertiser-supported Web site:
http://www.hempnowbook.com.

People told me, “Oh, you can't do that!”

Yes, I can!

Yes, I did!

Various publishing companies that looked at the manuscript
wanted the book to be shorter, to be focused only on hemp,
and to not contain the “controversial chapters” about the drug war,
political corruption, the prison industry, and corporate greed.

To their proposals to cut my book in half, I say: No, thanks!
That would truly be a book to nowhere.

By publishing the book for free on the Web,
people all over the planet can educate themselves on the topic.
People all over the planet have already been looking at
my other Web sites (http://www.sunfoodliving.com,
and http://www.sunfoodtraveler.com - which is going to be overhauled).
This new site will give them more of my writing to read.

I didn't write the book for money. I wrote it for the environment,
for wildlife, for family farmers, for the health of humanity,
and for a more sustainable world.

According to the authorities and industry leaders who
read through the manuscript as I was writing it,
it is the most up-to-date and complete book on the history,
laws, and uses of hemp, the world's most useful plant.

Even though the U.S. is the world's number one
importer of hemp products, U.S. farmers are not
allowed to grow it, but Canadian farmers are growing
many thousands of acres of it, and they are doing so
largely to supply hemp products for the U.S. market.
Read my book and understand why the U.S. government
refuses to allow family farmers to grow hemp.

My new book has been endorsed by
The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance;
The Hemp Lobby;
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML);
Oregon NORML;
and The Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform.

Also, the people at http://www.VoteHemp.com read
through the manuscript, provided me with information for the book,
and connected me with people to interview.

After years of writing, rewriting, researching, toiling,
interviewing, editing, and more researching and writing and rewriting…

As of today, December 30, 2008…

The complete manuscript of
HEMP: WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
can be read for free by accessing:
http://www.hempnowbook.com

"Hemp: What The World Needs Now" is the first book to be formulated for this strain of Web delivery by a new company. If you know of any other authors who want to publish their books in the same advertiser-supported format, feel free to contact Sam Estrin: Sam@Odinmetatech.com.

Meanwhile, spread the word about http://www.hempnowbook.com.
Link it to your Web sites.

Educate yourself about hemp and what it can do
to create a more sustainable culture.

Add raw hemp seed powder and raw hemp oil to your
daily diet, and feel your health improve.

And, have a great New Year!

Rock on!

John McCabe

Christmas in a Collage

I hate to sum Christmas up in a collage, but I'm so zapped from the social aspect of Christmas that my resources feel pretty low and, well, this is the best I can do. Overall the holidays went well. A bit overwhelming for both Adi and I. It's pretty safe to generally say that we can handle large groups of people in small doses. The holidays usually mean large groups of people and social interaction in large doses and it takes a while to recover from that. My introvert friends know what I'm talking about. For everyone else, I just seem anit-social. Whatever. It is what it is. I'm grateful that we have five down and there is only one gathering left to go.

It's Official

I'm now a licensed massage therapist. The certificate I got in the mail today says so. Hmmmm. What do I do with that, other than hang it on the wall? I haven't had time to think about it with the holidays so, well, I'm still working on it...