Beta Day

The nurse at Dr. W's phoned about an hour ago. (Dr. W is the urologist I saw last Friday when I was sure I was having another bout of UTI). The urine culture came back and it was totally negative. Not a thing grew in there. Wow. So the wild cramping I had on Wednesday and Thursday might actually have been implantation cramps. I had it again the last two days, and it was quite fiece last night and J and I saw on the couch eating our Valentine's dinner and watching "Never on a Sunday" (cute movie I might add).

I do have a single pregnancy test left...one of those First Response Early Detection ones that are supposed to be so good that they can test as little as 12mIU of HCG in urine, which makes it about the best money can buy outside of doing a blood beta test. I am too stressed to use it though. I can handle the definitive test, the blood test, which makes no mistakes, but I don't believe I can deal with a drug store test which leaves room for error, and false positives/negatives. So it'll sit under my bathroom counter.

In a little bit I will be off to find a laboratory that can do my beta test on the spot so that I won't have to wait a day to get my results. Besides, I'm nearly out of progesterone in ethyl oleate and I'll have to get Dr. Z to write a new prescription, and I'm nearly sure that he won't unless I've got a positive beta.

Maybe once I have my official result I'll break out that First Response test just to see what it would have said.

Wish me luck.