Omaha: Recovery symptoms

Good morning:) First of all, sorry I had to put my blog on private. I'm so mad at myself. I cut and pasted yesterday's post and send it to a list of friends, including some teacher friends and my boss. Well my DA didn't realize that if I attached the title to my post, they could just click on it and go to my blog. HOW ANNOYING! I was very preterbed. There is something about having a blog and not having to hold back on anything you say. I don't want my boss knowing my bowl movements! haha. So, I had to make it private...now it's back public after a few days because I realized how much I missed my feedback from my blogger ladies! haha

Friday: Day Three Each day is getting better. Stomach is still very sore but a lot of the gas has gone away. The gas, to me, is one of the most difficult things. I couldn't even lay down in bed last night without crying because the stupid gas just wouldn't come out!! I just wanted dh to poke me with a pin and pop me but obviously that's not possible. Warning tmi: With the anesthesia, this puts all your body parts to sleep so it takes time to wake those suckers up! I haven't been able to go #2, which has also been annoying and probably contributes to the irritable gas issues. This morning I finally got to feeling a bit better with that. (Sorry, I just want to be honest with those who are curious about this surgery). Another tmi: it is so difficult to go #1. It comes out in little bits but not a constant flow. I swear it takes me 5 minutes just to go #1, but it is getting better. My throat is sore from the tube. I was told my throat was going to be dry and that is very true. Cough drops help that. My tongue is also sore and I'm guessing that is from where the tube was resting...it feels kinda swollen but that is getting better too. I know this all probably sounds worse than it is, but these are def true symptoms. And last but not least, you def look pregnant after all this. My stomach is swollen from the gas and I look like I'm probably 5 months pregnant. ha. Yesterday Dh and I tried to get out and walk around Old Market in hopes to get that gas flowing and I think it was too soon for me to get up and walk b.c when we got home, I was in tears from being so sore and my stomach looked 9 months pregnant. Today we are not going to do much walking! Each morning, except for Wed, we have been going to do my ovulation series where they are doing the ultrasound to observe my follicle and it's progression towards ovulation. So we are about to go do that now.

Sunday: This weekend I am finally feeling better walking around. My body feels as if it is finally getting back to normal...except the bathroom issue....I swear that if tomorrow comes and I am still having issues with not being able to go #2, I'm going to scream. I've done everything from drink water, to take vitamins, to eat iber cereal, to walk around, etc. EVERYTHING! UGH!

Each morning we have been going to PPVI to observe ovulation through the ultrasound series. My follicle has increased by .2 each day. Yesterday it was at 1.8, today it was at 1.99. I'm hoping that tomorrow it will burst and Tuesday it will be gone so that I can go home early!!! I'm really homesick now. Yesterday was a really hard day. DH had to fly home and y'all, I swear it was as if I wasn't going to see him for months. I was crying and crying. Momma came in on the flight Dh was leaving on so it was nice to have family still around. Yesterday mom and I went to mass and I couldn't even make it through the mass. I was so emotional. I couldn't stop crying. I have all sorts of emotions running through my mind. Up to this point I feel as if my faith was pretty strong....now it's being tested and I'm not doing so well with fighting that. I was in the dumps yesterday. I have these thoughts about the future and the whatifs are just killing me. Thank goodness today is better. Mom seems to think that three days after surgery your adrenaline system drops after being so high during my stress of the surgery so my emotions just went wack!

We are about to head out for mass at St. Cecilla's Cathedral here in Omaha. It looks like a beautiful church so I'm anxious to go. Let's hope my emotions stay stable! ha. I'm excited about my day tomorrow because I get to finally meet Hebrews and she is bringing along Screllos!!! Yay! I need to catch up on Screllos today so I know who she is, haha, but either way, I can't wait to finally meet some bloggers:):):)

Updated: Day 2: Surgery, Day 3: Starting Recovery

I'm alive:) Good morning girlies. It's a beautiful chilly day in Omaha. Dh just took dad to the airport and when he got back, I was finally able to get in the shower. I felt so yuck...feels great to be clean. Dh just cooked me a little breakfast and now I'm enjoying coffee and writing to all of you.

Surgery day: We got to Creighton Med Center at 7:00 a.m. Honestly, I was feeling good. I wasn't really nervous at all. Compared to what I experienced in March with the emergency tube removal, this was nothing. The only thing I was really nervous about was the damn IV. Ugh...hate those. Nurse came in to get me and prep me for surgery. After prep, they told me I would be able to see dad and dh before surgery. Prep time was good. They get you all dressed up in the gown, tights (to prevent clotting and continue blood flow through legs, and a shower cap. The coolest part was the gown. On the gown there were two vacuum like holes, like where you plug in a vacuum. They plug a vacuum like tube into the hole and it blows warm air into your gown!!! This was amazing to me! Especially because I was freezing my rear off, like always. Of course you look like you are 50 lbs heavier with ginormous boobs because of all the air in the gown, but who cares....I was finally cozy. The nurse (Karen, she was wonderful!) told me that patients tend feel better when their body is warm compared to being chilly. So that was a nice treat. Then came the IV. I asked Mrs. Karen if she could possibly numb me before giving me the IV and SHE DID! Y'all I was so happy. As silly as this sounds, my stress level dropped completely. She numbed the area and the IV when right in without hurting...thank the Lord! After prep time, dad and dh came into join me for a good 30 min before surgery. Side note: Everyone is so helpful and sweet at Creighton. We had a very positive experience and everyone talked so highly of Dr. Hilgers. Right before they wheeled me back to surgery, Dr. H came in to talk to us. He is so nice. He made me laugh a few times and I remember saying to him right before he left to take care of me....he said absolutely!

2) After surgery: I remember waking up to sweet dh kissing my forehead. At first I was so out of it I thought, who is this weird person so close to my head! ha. I didn't have my contacts in so everything was a really blurry. Then I remember dad feeding me apple sauce while dh would feed me sprite. I was sooo out of it! One thing I was so pleased with was the anesthesia. I had told the nurses and the anesthetist that I got really sick last time from the anesthesia, so they gave me a patch and extra meds so that I wouldn't get sick after. That was great because not once did I feel sick. I took up the whole time in recovery. Pretty much slept the whole time unless dh or dad were trying to give me something to eat/drink to give me energy. Overall, I never felt any pain...not even gas pain because of the good meds. Then I remember them wheeling me to the car. It was over. It really wasn't that bad at all. BUT, as the nurse was wheeling me out I remember her asking if she would be seeing me again and I remember my dad immediately stepping in and changing the subject. That is when I knew something was a bit wrong. UGH!

3) When we got home and got situated in bed, I asked dh and dad to come talk with me. Dr. H had given them pictures from the surgery and I wanted to see them and hear what the outcome was. And then the tears came. I asked dad and dh if I had to come back for another surgery and they fell silent. SHIT!!!!! Excuse the language but that is what I immediately thought. I started bawling. Dh and dad were comforting me and explaining to me what Dr. H told them. Back track really quick....yesterday while we were meeting with Dr. for the first time and he was reviewing my charts and blood work, he pointed out my FSH and LH levels and how they were opposite than what they should be....therefore he had a thought that I could have PCOS. But, he said that my charts weren't showing it so we wouldn't know until after surgery. Well, that is what it is. I have stupid PCOS! UGHHHHHHHHHH! I also have endo in alot of different areas. Not much, that I know of right now, but it is scattered around in different little spots. You know what makes me soooo angry. Why the hell didn't my doctor at home know this. When she removed my tube I remember her telling all of us that everything inside looked fabulous....yeah right. Shows how much she knows!

4) So, Dh and I are about to go meet with Dr. H to watch the video on the surgery and hear the followup. I hope he can schedule be sooner than later for my next surgery. I'll update this afternoon.....

UPDATE:::

5) Just got back from follow up with Dr. H. We watched the video of my surgery and he was very thorough in his explanations of what is wrong. There is more endo than I thought....shoot, I didn't think I would have much if any but then after seeing the video, I have plenty. Amazing this was not recognized by my dr at home. Also, my ovaries are very enlarged. I do have PCOS and he is going to have to go in and to a wedge resection of both ovaries. He said once this is done, he will sow them back up and they will rid themselves of the cyst like follicles that surround the ovaries. So he will do both the endo and PCOS surgery all at once. Oh and my uterus is inflamed a bit and he thinks this is a low grade infection caused by the endo possibly. He will treat that with antibiotics for both me and dh after my next surgery.

Good news: He has rescheduled my surgery for Nov 23rd, the Tues of Thanksgiving week. Holy cow. I was thinking it wasn't going to be until Jan or so with his busy schedule but they can fit me in that week. So we will be back out here soon. That really comforted me knowing it is going to be sooner than later. I will be in hospital for 3 nights and then we will prob try to fly home that Sat to beat the Thanksgiving traffic. He did say I was to  be out of work for 4-6 weeks so this works perfectly with the teaching schedule because it goes right into the Christmas holidays so I really won't be missing as much as I would have had it been scheduled another time. Maybe it will be snowing out here....that would be a good reward for me. I love the snow and having not been around it in a while, I would love to see it then. 

Overall, I am very pleased with Dr. H and what he has discovered. I'm amazed that none of this was determined previously with my dr. at home...especially b.c it is so obvious to the human eye. After the surgery I will have to be put on meds for progesterone, antibiotics, and possibly that endo diet. I feel good about all of this now after hearing from Dr. H. I do feel the Lord in all of this. I can't imagine where we would be if it weren't for knowing about Dr. H. Also, I feel like we really aren't wasting or missing time because we wouldn't have been able to start trying right away to begin with. So, we will have to wait a little longer but not bad. Plus, hearing Dr. H's enthusiasm and his guesstimate on my chances on getting pregnant being high, I feel much better.

Going to go rest now. Oh and I still have to remain up here in Omaha through next week so that they can observe ovulation. I'm right on track with my cycle on where we thought I'd be so that is good.  Dh and I are planning on going to see a movie this afternoon. Thank you all for your support. I took pictures and will be posting them soon. Also, I have some pleasant thoughts about my experience up here outside these facts that I've been talking about. I'll share those in a later post too. 

Have any of you gone through this wedge resection surgery??? Curious to know about others experiences with this....

Day 1: Pre-Op, Meet Dr. Hilgers

Morning ladies! It's a windy day here in Omaha. Dad, dh and I are sitting here in Scooter's coffeehouse catching up on the day's news so I thought I'd start todays blog and update about the afternoon apts later.

We got in last night and immediately went to dinner...I was starving! Dad, having previously been here, picked out Vivace. Yummy!!! Thank goodness they were open. I was thinking we were going to have to eat fast food at 9 at night but I was wrong, thank goodness. Right away I got a great feeling about Omaha. It's a great city and I love Old Market...its fabulous. I can't wait to go looking through the shops when my momma gets out here. Anyway, dinner and conversation were great. Now its time to go see our little house we rented.

I was so excited to finally be here. I'm in pretty good spirits. I was anxious to see our house! We pulled up and I just lovvvved it! Any of u ladies who are coming out here must try and rent it. We are paying $100 a night (totaling to &1,400, which includes a $300 deposit that we get back) compared to the Residence Inn that was going to charge us $4,500 for our stay. RIDICULOUS! I freeked out with that and went to VRBO.com and found this cute place! Any questions, just email me. Anyway, it's very cozy and has all the amenities you need. The neighborhood is also very pleasant, which adds to the charm of the house.

Days Agenda:
1) Pre Op: We went to Creighton Medical Hospital to do my lab work....took blood, did urine sample, talked with nurse about surgery. Pretty nice hospital with lovely people. Had to pick up my enema...UGH...because I have to do that tonight after dinner. Talk about nasty! I'm making my dad and husband go watch TV in the basement...haha...and leave me alone!

2) After pre-op we drove around Omaha to get more familiar with the city....lovely place. It really has a great lay out and a great feel. There are some pretty neighborhoods and with all the fall leaves changing, it was a perfect little drive.  After drive we went to PPVI to do my ultrasound and bone density scan. They do this before your meeting with Dr. H. Ours was at 11, and our meeting with Dr. H was at 2:30 so we ate lunch in between. Anyway, ultrasound...they just check out the ovaries and see what the follicle is doing. Mine is right on track with where we though so ovulation should occur before we head out next week. Perfect timing! Then they did the bone density scan which is just a check to make sure that all is well with your calcium intake and the health of your bones....sometimes hormonal imbalances can lead to poor density so they just check. I swear these people are so thorough! Love it:)

3) Fun side note. After lunch we drove right down the hill from PPVI and went to Jones Bros Cupcakes...can I say YUM! Look them up on facebook and discover their flavor cupcake of the day that you are there and go inside and tell them the flavor and they give you a free cupcake!!! Today was Peanut Butter M&M and I just walked in and said, Peanut Butter M&M and they gave us all a free cupcake:) Just a fun little something that was deliciously yummy:)

4) After lunch headed back to PPVI to meet Dr. H. I swear I have been waiting for months to meet this man and the time has finally come! Thank goodness. We walked upstairs to the lobby and the ladies at the desk are just so sweet. We immediately struck up conversation and I felt so welcome. We met with nurse and Dr. H's other Dr. who is doing her fellowship. She was awesome. She checked over my chart and we chatted and then game Dr. H. Y'all he is so nice! He has a great personality. Right away we felt so comfortable with him. He is really tall...I wasn't expecting that. Or, maybe I am just really short! ha. So what he said about me:
     a. Progesterone: Classified me as Type III. Basically my progesterone drops before it should. That is fixable!
     b. Brown blood: I have this every day of my period...not good but he will deal with it. He says it is either a low grade infection or caused b.c of hormonal issues. Guess we will figure all that out after surgery tomorrow.
     c. Limited mucus/bad cramps: Prob endo.
     d. Thyroid: going to be put on T3 after my surgery.
This was all his prediction about what was going on, but as we know, we will figure out much more after the surgery.

All in all, I feel really good about tomorrow. I can't wait to hear what he has to say. I won't be posting tomorrow, prob...who knows, but I will be sure to update you. Hope this was informative enough for those who are curious about PPVI!

We are on our way out to eat a light dinner. Then I have to do the damn enema...crap:) Literally! haha. tmi!

Tired, so will download pictures later. Hugs and pray:) LOVES

ON MY WAY TO OMAHA!!!!!

So dh and I are sitting in the airport waiting to board our flight. We will arrive in Omaha tonight. I can't believe the time is already here. As y'all know, my stupid internet at home hasn't been working so I am excited our house in Omaha that we rented has wireless.I feel so behind on some of your lives. I was able to check up on thurs but not since then. We have a 3 hour layover in Atlanta so I plan on catching up on my phone...not my fav way to use internet but it will have to work! I love the big screen of computer and can't stand the small screen on my phone, but it will have to do.

Ok enough blabbing...soooo I will write tomorrow telling about my pre op meeting and visit at the institute. Then surgery is wed morning. So if y'all can, remember to pray this week for me! Come thursday I should be fine and will write to let y'all know how things went. It's here...I can't believe I'm writing about all this...agh!!!

How am I feeling? I'm a bit anxious and apprehensive, but for the most part excited as all heck. I can't wait to get this all under way.I find myself to be less stressed now that I am done organizing my sub and getting things at school all prepped and ready. I went to mass at the monestary this morning and all the sweet little nuns were all wishing me well...I got a bit emotional but that is expected. Recently I have got more emotional when I talk about going and hoping for success, but I understand that is normal. I just still can't believe we are having to go through all this...it still boogles my mind that something I thought was going to be so easy, turned out to be the most difficult venture we have ever faced. But hey, the Lord is good and he has his reasons and I have to keep reminding myself to trust, trust, trust!! So that is what I'll being doing these next two weeks.

Hugs and loves to all of you. Thank you so much for your support. You have been my srength!! I love you all even though I don't know you in person! Haha. crap, flight about to board. Gotta go!

One of those days...

So yesterday was one of those days. I had HORRIBLE cramps and was pretty moody for all my students. And with them being teenagers, they understood that there aren't many bad days for me so when one comes around, they know to act on their very best....haha...don't mess with me when I am cramping! I ended up canceling my meetings after school and even canceled my workout. I went straight home, took a hot bath (love!) and handled my cramping the best way I knew how. Gosh I can't wait to get this crap sorted!

So I ended up taking a nap on the couch. Dh woke me up sweetly...love him:) and began cooking us dinner. Usually I try to make dinner since he works late but sweetly he just took it into his own hands. It's rare that I have bad days so when I do, he knows just how to treat me...thank goodness!

And then the tears came...oh goodness....it was like a waterfall. I received a picture text of my new little cousin and although I was so happy for them, I all of a sudden realized "Wow, it's gonna be a while before I have one of those..." And immediately, I started bawling! Awe, it was so sad looking back. It was uncontrollable. So dh just rubbed my back and I just let it all out. Poor thing, I know he wants one just as bad. Seeing the tears in his eyes makes me ache 10x more.

I trust in the Lord's hands. I know that I wasn't given this passion to adore children not to have any myself. It's just the patience of it all. The waiting on the Lord's plan. GOSH that is so hard to do! I have read many of your blogs and have read your sad times too. That has helped me a lot. I realize that I will have my hard days and I will have my good days. Lately I have had more good than bad, thank goodness. I'm a pretty positive person, so my bad days are few. But it's the not knowing what lies ahead that scares me. I have my visit in Omaha next week....I am so excited...yet anxious too. BUT, what I am really nervous about isn't the surgery or the diagnosis, it's the after part. I am not looking forward to those months where I wait wait wait and then the damn period comes....UGH! Over the past 6 months we have been abstaining....that actually has been easier than I thought. It really hasn't been bad at all. I knew I couldn't get pregnant so I was actually looking forward to getting my periods because that helped pass the time with getting to Omaha. It's the waiting on the damn period and it coming that stinks. It's the late period, the excitement, then the let down of the period coming a few days late. Allllll that drama that comes along with trying and then it not working is what I am not looking foward to. But like my mom says, "Don't put the horse in front of the cart....you never know what God has in store so there is no need in worrying. Worrying only changes the worrier."

I know you all have experienced or are experiencing this as we speak....or maybe even for months or years. It doesn't make me feel better that you all have to go through this too. But, it does comfort me to know that I have my bloggers out there praying with me and for me. So thank you bloggers for adding more trust to my life...more understanding...more light...more knowledge....more appreciation....all that stuff you have brought to my life....thanks:)

P.S. Today is a better day:) At least I always know there are better days ahead right!

P.P.S. Oh and for any of you bloggers who are curious about PPVI or Dr. H and haven't experienced it before or if you have anything you want me to address in my blog while I am out there, ask/tell away. I plan on writing about my experience out there but if there is anything specific you want to know, let me know and I can hopefully include that in my blog for the upcoming weeks at PPVI.  The reason I say this is because I had hundreds of questions and a lot of them were answered by those bloggers who have had the experience and I am so thankful for that. So if I can be of any help, let me know:)

Not much longer:):):)

Ok so never did I think I would be so darn excited about meeting with an infertility specialist! haha. Oh what my life has come to...you never know, do you?! Eight days till we leave on our flight to Omaha. 

I have felt so out of the loop on blogging. Our stupid internet connection is down bc something happened a lightning storm a few weeks ago and since then it hasn't worked. I keep asking DH to get his pal over to fix it, but that isn't one of the top things on his list so he keeps forgetting. No biggie....if I could just remember to remind him it would get fixed sooner but I keep forgetting...haha. I have had time to check others blogs because I can use my phone but as far as typing a blog post from my phone, that takes to darn long. So, here I am at the coffee shop catching up on blogs and posting on this beautiful Sunday. Oh and the house that we rented in Omaha has wireless so I will definitely be more up to date come next week!! Y'all be ready to pray please:)

Life is going pretty swell. DH and I have been busy with work and football on the weekends. We also have been out of town with weddings, baptisms, family reunions recently. But that has been good b.c it has made Oct fly by quickly and I needed that. I have my sub all ready for taking over my classes. I'm reallllly nervous about him to be honest....especially with him having do deal with teenagers when he is at least 65. My principal recommended him. He taught French for many years to middle schoolers and high schoolers but for some reason I'm thinking he is one of those who the kids can run all over...make sense? He is almost too nice. He really a sweet man though. He comes all dressed up in his tie and the kids love that. He has subbed a couple of times recently but only for a little bit during the day for other teachers.Yet he seems almost too laid back. Put it this way, he seems tooottallllyyy oppposite than me. I'm full of energy, always on the go, upbeat and enthusiastic in my teaching, yet strict enough to have total control of the my teenager students. He seems like that man on that movie who is the teacher with the monotonous voice and very subdued...do you know who I am talking about??? Like that teacher who says "Bueller...." hahaha...Come to think of it, they even kinda look alike!  Can't think of movie... Anyway, I made plans for him and gave them to him 2 weeks ago so that he could be fully prepared when he takes over next week. He is also going to come and shadow me on Thursday to observe how things work. I'm hoping this all goes well. But to be honest, I have done all that I can do to prepare him and now I just have to let go and let God.... I mean, I really don't need to be stressing over this but I'm sorta a control freek about certain things...perhaps I just need to chill. Soooo that is what I am going to practice on this week....chilling out! My body doesn't need all this unnecessary stress/anxiety. The time has come, now I can just put it in his hands....the kids will live and so will he...hopefully! 

Has anyone bought Dr. H's new book??? I ordered it on Amazon and am in the middle of reading it and am learning away. My plan is to finish it will I'm out in Omaha. Anyway, it is worth the read. Gosh am I thankful for this man...and I haven't even met him yet! I'm continuing to be an open book to people about this whole experience. I met with one of my friends today. She uses the SymptoThermal Method of NFP and isn't having much success. She is having some issues and all she wants to do is be informed yet her doctor can't give her any darn information. Long story but basically her doctor after 2 months is already referring her to an infertility specialist and she can't even tell her why!!!!  I sat down with her today and explained Napro and she is now going to go see my Napro practitioner and start learning this method. I'm so happy that she is going to explore this. One down....many more to go:)

Ok...it's too beautiful to stay inside any longer. I'm headed home to get changed and take dog for a walk. Hopefully DH can come with me. Hope you are all having a lovely Sunday. One week from today I'll be packing my suit case:):):) 

Spreading the NaPro message!!

I cannot stop thinking about NaPro! I keep thinking...How can I spread this message? Well, I was all about writing a letter to the Today show after hearing them talk about the birth control patch, etc. Then I got to thinking, I can't conquer the world, but I can do small things steps at a time. So, here I start! Today I emailed the NFP instructors in the Archdiocese. They know my dh and I because we met with them during the classes before we got married. So, I emailed her asking if I could possibly set up a meeting with them in the near future. My plan is to discuss with her all the wondrous things I have learned about Dr. H and Napro in hopes that she can help me spread the word through these young Catholic couples in our area. 

I got to thinking this past week, all Catholics have to go through these classes before marriage...it is a requirement of the Archdiocese. So, think of all the couples we could reach out to and simply expose them to this topic! Of course we had no idea we would struggle with IF but when we started to struggle we had NOWHERE to turn! We simply looked up to our doctor because we trusted her....shouldn't we all?? But then after doing all this research I realized how little my doctor knew about treating my IF. She was trained like all other infertility specialists are trained....if you can't find or fix problem, go the artificial route! Her diagnosis for me was that my body had developed antibodies against my husbands sperm. Basically she said my mucus was killing dh's sperm. She determined this through post coital tests. Little did I know at that time that she wasn't preforming the tests at the right time of my cycle. She was preforming these tests according to the average woman's cycle. So she was checking me out on day 12 or 13 of my cycle b.c that was when she inferred that I was ovulating. WELL GUESS WHAT!!! I don't ovulate around those days. My typical time is around day 17/18 or so. SOOOO of course every time she went to test, dh's sperm were dead...they didn't have mucus to live in because I wasn't even close to ovulating yet!!! 

Sorry for yelling over the computer! ha. My whole point to this is that we trusted her judgment and then followed through with her wishes. Why? I was clueless and stunned. I had no idea I would have a problem and I had no idea how to fix it. So I looked up to my doctor for help. Had I been exposed to the topic of infertility and NaPro through Dr. H, I would have never gone down the road of the IUI. That is another whole story but the point is, I learned my lesson the hard way. I was lost and had no where to turn. I had no idea about PPVI. If my cousin didn't approach me with the idea of Dr. H, I know I would still be lost. AND THEN, after having my ectopic pregnancy, we had to go and discuss what the heck to do next. This was when I started to do more research. I knew that there had to be hope out there for us. In the meantime, guess what my Dr. told us to do???? She said, after your body heals from this emergency tube removal, you can start trying again in July through Dec. If you aren't pregnant by Dec, then come back and see me. WELL, in the meantime we discovered Dr. H. After getting all my blood series back from Dr. H, we discovered that I had very low progesterone. SOOOO basically if we would have continued to try like my Dr. told me to do, we would have had a miscarriage because my body couldn't carry the baby with so low progesterone. Look how little we discovered with my Dr. and how much we discovered with Dr. H!!!

So with all this being said, I plan to discuss all of this with the NFP directors here in hopes to get others involved. Even if I have to make myself present at one of these required meetings to introduce the topic, I will. I just hope they listen and let me expose this topic in this matter. Of course I will have to plan out what to say/teach, but I can do that if they let me. It seems the best way to spread this right now. So I invite all you to do the same. Does your Church require you to take this NFP class before marriage? If so, you should follow suit with me and help spread the message.