Praying for a Little One--for Lisa

Please join me in prayer for Lisa this month (March) and let her know if you prayed for her in the comments section. I know she will be encouraged by your prayers, and I know all of you will be blessed by her story.


When people asked Lisa as a young girl what she wanted to be when she grew up, she always replied "a mommy."  The desire to be a mother never left Lisa so when she got married to the love of her life she let him decide when he was ready to start trying.  A year and a half later, her husband felt it was time to start and Lisa of course agreed.  6 months later...another negative and a quick pep talk from her GYN to keep trying.  1 year...still waiting so Lisa's GYN decided to run tests on both Lisa and her husband.  Through the testing, they did find that Lisa's husband, Barry, had a varicocele which was decreasing his sperm count, and Lisa's doctor also suggested an exploratory lap surgery for her.  Not wanting to wait any longer...Lisa and her husband both had surgeries within weeks of each other.  In Lisa's surgery, the doctor found endometriosis.  Since then, Lisa and Barry have started seeing a RE in Mobile, AL (which is about a 4 hour drive from their home).  Lisa's RE diagnosed her with mild PCOS and recommended that they go on the SugarBusters diet and to take Juice Plus to combat environmental toxins.  Lisa has already lost 20 lbs on the diet (GO Lisa!!).  Two cycles ago, Lisa had her first IUI with a 50 mg Clomid, ultrasound monitoring and trigger shot protocol.  Last cycle, she had two large cysts so she had to do a cycle of birth control pills (boo!).  But now, the cysts are gone (which is an answer to prayer!) and Lisa's RE has upped her dosage to 100 mg Clomid.  Here are Lisa's thoughts on the hardest part of infertility for her:

"The hardest part of infertility for me...would either be just the unknown or the constant reminders everywhere you go of what you don't have.  The unknown - if we knew the date that we would get pregnant i could relax knowing my time will come soon.  If we knew that we were never going to be able to get pregnant, we could grieve and move on to adoption.  The not knowing is hard because you are always questioning, always wondering, always hoping, not knowing when it will end and you will have a baby in your arms!  HOWEVER if we DID know how this would end, then we wouldn't have the opportunity to completely and fully rely on God and trust Him.  If we knew how it would to turn it, what would there be to trust Him with?

So...maybe the constant reminders of babies everywhere I go.  Friends getting pregnant and feeling like they are "getting ahead" of you, pregnant bellies, pregnancy announcements, babies, families, TV shows, movies - you can't get away from it.  It is hard seeing all of that and wishing that YOU had it.  The thing that I think I have struggled with the most is the jealousy aspect of it.  I can trust that the Lord is in control and has a plan for me, but it is so hard not being jealous of people who have what I want so desperately."


One of the reasons, I enjoy reading Lisa so much is that so many of the things she writes reminds me of how I processed/felt things with infertility.  I could have written the above paragraph while I was waiting.


Lisa's Prayer Requests:
1. For the dosage of 100mg Clomid will be sufficient and cause Lisa to have a good strong ovulation
2. For the fertility medications to not cause more cysts this cycle
3. For this cycle to end in a pregnancy
4. Strength and peace as they wait and that God will bring Lisa and Barry closer to each other and to Him through this journey.




I also wanted to share this blog post that Lisa wrote on "Why I'm Thankful for my Infertility" .  It is so hard to see the good when going through such a difficult journey/struggle as infertility, but I encourage all of you who are still waiting to consider writing a list like this.


On a lighter note, Lisa is taking a pic holding up the number IUI it is...like I did!  Made my day when I saw this.

Let's hope (and pray!) that she will only have to hold up 2 fingers and that this will be the cycle!  This is also Lisa's birthday month (happy birthday lisa) so let's hope it is a good one!  Keep us updated Lisa!