Beans is Back!

It has been awhile since I have posted. There are two main reasons for this.
1. An absolute avalanche of work (back to school and all).
2. I promised a posting entitled "Are you there God? It's me Frank N. Beans."

I wrote about three versions, but it wasn't coming out right. I think the main issue is that I am having a difficult time distinguishing my thoughts between God and the Church and the roles that have played in our struggles with IF. Plus, I am always wary of the following:


The post still might come, but it may take awhile.

So what have we been up to? In celebration of my 32nd birthday I completed a "Fat Man" Race this weekend. The race was 4.8 miles and included 3 "aid stations." At each station each contestant had to consume a hot dog and a beer. I assumed that many of the other racers would be a little rotund, and in turn help my self-esteem, but alas, most of my competitors were tall and athletic helping them achieve the requisite 190 lbs. for official "Clydesdale" status. Still, I hung in there, and I did manage to finish the race in a respectable time, but I did not "finish strong", as Mrs. Beans pointed out when I chugged across the finish line.

I think that this is partly due to the fact that I haven't had a drink in almost a month as a part of out IVF training regimen. As a result I have rapidly dropped 8 lbs. and lost my capacity for devouring sodium enriched hot dogs and poor quality beer. I have not received much sympathy from Mrs. Beans (who is already in incredible shape) for my rapid weight loss. Still, I think that I could have performed much better and plan to tackle the race again next year. Hopefully, with a baby jogger!

In other news, Mrs. Beans did her first Lupron shot this morning and I couldn't be more proud. I had an early morning hockey game this morning that I offered to skip (in fact I wanted to skip), but Mrs. Beans said that it might be easier if I wasn't there to stress her out. I was very relieved when I received a text informing me that it went great and that it wasn't painful at all.

I have to say, she prepared for this day like it was the Super Bowl. She has been studying more film than Tom Brady and had created a pretty comprehensive game plan. Some thanks are certainly due to Bea for her excellent resource "the IVF Roundup". Between these videos and the help of the pharmacy, Mrs. Beans felt pretty confident.

I was grateful since I know that Mrs. Beans is a little needle shy! I had already considered that we might have to make the shots a game, where I would hide in our apartment with a Lupron loaded Blow-gun, quietly waiting for a bleary-eyed and unsuspecting Mrs. Beans to get out of bed. I was even prepared for a possible chase scenario.

So the meds have officially started. We will keep ya posted!