CD28...the suspense builds!

The 2WW is almost over... but these last few days are so long.  We had a wonderful time camping.  It reminded me of the times we spent camping when we were first married.  It was just the two of us (and our pup) and we played scrabble, read by the fire, swam in the ocean and napped in the tent.  Apart from feeling terribly sore from sleeping on the ground (we are getting old!), it was perfect.

I'll admit...I took a pee-test this morning.  Here are the reasons why:

The day we left for camping I started feeling pretty sick, like flu-sick.  All day I was naseaus and had a headache and felt sore.  The next day camping felt the same way, but a bit less intense.  And pretty much for the whole camping trip (and still today), I've been feeling not great.  It's not a stay-in-bed-all-day kind of sickness, but a general ickyness.  Fortunately, when camping, all I had to do was relax and snack all day.  I found that when I was hungry it was the worst, so I just kept snacks around me all the time and I was fine, haha.  But, maybe my body was just fighting off a bug.

The next thing I noticed was that for the entire camping trip, I had to pee ALL THE TIME!  Seriously, every hour I was heading to the porter-potties.  DH couldn't believe how much I had to pee.  But, this could have been due to a new prenatal vitamin I started taking.  Maybe they make you pee more?

Other than that, I haven't really had any "symptoms."  But... before we left for camping on Friday, I had an acupuncture appointment.  It was regular.  I was feeling pretty dizzy and nauseaus that morning so I welcomed the chance to lie down in a dark room for a bit.  After my acupuncture, though, when my ND. was taking out the needles, a bunch of the points started to bleed a little bit.  That has never happened to me!    She commented that she has never seen that with me, and that I must have some "extra blood" flowing through me.  Seriously!  Extra blood... that is a great sign of pregnancy!  That got my hopes up a bit but I didn't want to put too much stock in it.  Maybe the Hcg trigger stimulates your body to produce more blood?  I don't know.

We weren't supposed to come home from camping until this morning, but we made an executive decision to have a good night's sleep before work this week.  So, last night before it was dark we packed up most of our campsite.  We had dinner and sat by the fire till the stars came out, and then drove home arriving home by midnight (so nice to live close by a great campsite).  We slept in our amazingly comfortable bed.  And this morning I took a test.

And it was negative.

Oh, also I forgot to mention that last night I dreamt that I went for my bloodwork and it was negative.  I bawled and bawled my eyes out in my dream.

So part of me has lost hope and is bracing for the negative.  But part of me still has the hope alive... When I told DH, he reminded me that these stupid cheap pee strip tests I bought online, didn't register my last pregnancy until far AFTER the blood test had shown a positive.  That time, we had used a Clearblue to get an accurate reading.  I had completely forgotten about that!  So maybe these tests are duds too and there still is a chance?

I am picking up a real Clearblue test today.  We will likely test tomorrow morning.  I wasn't going to blog about all of this, but right now I just needed to let it out.  And it's kind of fun to keep the suspense alive, right???