Mornings Aren't Magical

Working in construction requires one to be an early riser... luckily for me, because I'm primarily in the office, I don't have to get up at 5 on most days. However, we have meetings at 6:30 and 7:00 am at least once a month!

I am definitely more of a night person than a morning person, especially an o-dark-30 morning person. Anyway, last week, my boss bought me this mug at the "Happiest Place on Earth". He remembered I liked 'Tink from the last time he went. (good boss, or should I say great wife who trained the good boss)

Anyway, today was an early meeting day, so I headed off to work with this cup of java. (And yes that is glorious whipped topping on top. It's amazing, really!!!) Not good for the diet, but good for the soul, and definitely good for an o-dark-30 meeting.

In other news, I had my blood drawn for my Chicago tests on Wednesday. They are doing another NK Assay and the Th1/Th2 Cytokine Ratio to see if my levels are normal, or if they crept back up to attack mode.

Essentially Natural Killer (NK) cells are a type of white blood cell designed to specifically target defective matter/cells and wipe it out. (In essence they inject a poison into the defective cell and it dies.) This is great for killing cancer cells and virus' like herpes, but not good when it detects a normal Blastocyst as defective.

Th1 (T Helper 1) cells attack intracellular objects (virus, cancers, yeast, and intracellular bacteria) and according to some research will also terminate early pregnancies if the numbers are elevated enough. Th2 (T Helper 2) cells attack bacteria, parasites, toxins, and allergens. A normal immune system is balanced between the two, and it only accesses the Th1/Th2 helper cells as needed. You get some bacteria, Th2 jumps to action. Got a virus call on Th1.

The fact I rarely get sick makes me pretty sure my Th1 has been overactive for a long time. The fact I have a bacterial reactive skin spots, and have adult onset allergies also makes me think my Th2 is under active. This could just be coincidence, but I'm starting to wonder otherwise.

If my Th1 cells or my NK Assay comes back elevated again, I will need to do some additional Heprin shots and intralipid infusions prior to starting my next cycle. The sad part is, I'm almost hoping they are high so it might explain why my FET didn't work. But if they are, then it's back on shots and infusions, and so part of me wants them to still be reduced. I'll should know by Monday what the results say.

Oh, and the title of the blog?

It doesn't relate to this post much,

that's what the back of my mug says. :-)