How does it feel?

This past Wednesday, our Chaplain at work approached me and asked if I was interested in sharing with him how it feels and what its like to deal with infertility? He told me he didn't want me to feel pressured to sit down and talk with him, but if I was interested in telling him, he wanted to hear my story. Without any hesitation, I immediately said to him....are you sure? you're ready for this? haha....so after my shift was done, I went to his office and again I asked him, are you sure about this? An hour and a half later and one tissue box down, it felt amazing to tell my story to someone who WANTED to listen and really seemed to care. It was extremely therapeutic for me and I thank God for the opportunity. In this almost 2 year journey, he is the first person that has asked me to share my feelings and I must say it helped me a lot. Why did he ask me to share this with him? He shared a little bit with me about why he wanted to know those things, he serves on an ethics committee and there was an ethical situation that they were in the middle of related to infertility and he is trying to gather as much information as possible. He said as a man, there were a lot of things he was unsure of and what better way to learn about this, than to ask someone going through it.....I totally agree! So for that, my unnamed friend....thank you! Thank you for giving me the opportunity and thank you for listening. I hope I helped you some too.

Now on to my weight loss journey. I have been doing pretty well with my eating. I am taking Phentermine again and it is really helping me. I am trying to drink as much water as possible and I haven't noticed any side effects from the Phentermine, so I pray this will continue. I am currently down 13 pounds (according to my scale at work), my scale at home is broken and I plan to get a new one this week. I have my appointment with Dr G on Wednesday and I will see how it feels about my progress, hopefully he is pleased! I know I am! For those of you praying for me, thank you and please do not stop!!

I will update you all on Wednesday after my appointment. Wish you all a blessed February (I can't believe it is already February)!!