**I don't feel any different**

Well, I got my coverline on Fertility Friend today, and as I thought, I O'd on CD#16 (May 2nd). Although I am pretty sure that I really O'd sometime after midnight that day, as I was still at work (trying to make up for all of the time I spend playing on the computer during work hours) and I began feeling fairly sharp pains on my right side. So, the correct O date should really probably be early early morning of CD#17. Anyway, enough of the boring cycle stuff! I have absolutely NO symptoms. I read about other people feeling different, or knowing that they are pregnant on the day they conceive. Unfortunately, I feel nothing at all. Last Friday, I ordered a home semen analysis kit for DH. You send the sample in and they analyze it and mail the results to your home. DH hasn't had an SA since December of 1998 (13,000,000--very low) since you have to get a referral from a doctor and then the doctor has to give you the results. Frankly, we were so disappointed after spending over $15,000 on DH's last reversal and getting such a low count over a year later, that we (I?) just didn't care anymore. But for some reason all of a sudden I became hopeful again. There was no real reason for this wave of hopefulness. Perhaps it can be explained by 36th birthday in March (*tick* *tick* ) or by the fact that one of my friends and now my baby sister (34) just got pregnant. Who knows...but I am very hopeful that in the year and a half since the last SA, DH's counts have gone WAY up. (Yeah right! ) Stranger things have happened. So we are waiting for the send-away-spermie-tester to arrive. We also had an appointment with our family physician regarding ttc and after informing her of our *issues*, she gave us a referral to an RE. The appointment is scheduled for May 16th. I am a little bummed as the RE turns out to be a man...and I don't like the idea of a man examining me. This is also my first month of temping. I am using the 30-day free trial of fertility friend. I LOVE IT! It is so fun! DH is even excited about it and wakes up when the alarm goes off (I sleep right through it) and says, "Honey..get up and take your temperature." Too cute! Despite the slim possibility that DH is even making enough sperm to fertilize an egg, I am very hopeful. (A few pregnancy symptoms would help a lot right now, though!) The way I figure it...my period is due on the 16th or the 17th of May, and our RE appointment is on the 16th. So...against all good advice...I WILL TEST EARLY. Assuming that AF doesn't arrive early, I plan to test on the morning of the 16th (14 DPO) ..and then if positive..the RE can do a blood test. Again, I know this is a long shot, but it is fun to hope and plan, right?