Change of seasons...

Winter is right around the corner. Last week it was in the 90's here on my little side of the world (California). The temperature plummeted this weekend into the 70's and it rained all night long. I'm a warm climate person and definitely favor summer. I think I’m just cold blooded and lucky to live in a place to tends to have mild winters. I have no idea how I survived years growing up in Colorado when I feel like my blood is freezing in 60 degree weather. I also have a hard time when the sun isn't out. I get depressed when it's dark and dreary. We have a lot of fog here and that's the worst. It's scary to drive in and you feel like your in a moist, gray haze (wrecks havoc on your hair too). I need my daily dose of sunlight!

So... anyone notice something different about my blog? I changed the name. Bad Robot was a joke between J and I when I first started this blog... I wanted something different and that's all I could come up with. Now the name means nothing to me and I've had several people unable to find my blog b/c they know me as "Keeping the Faith". So that's what I changed it to.... This is much more fitting for this longer than imagined infertility journey. Feel free to change my name on your link if you have one or keep it the same. No biggie!

On the TTC front.... I'm still in the 2WW. J and I are trying to decide on our next course of action. We know we're doing IVF next. NO more IUI's. But I am thinking about having my mild Endometriosis removed next month. I had a diagnostic lap in Nov 05 and my OB/GYN didn't laser off the Endo he found... I was so upset about that. He just assumed I'd go on a full strength 6 month Lupron treatment. This is one of the reasons I consulted my current RE. I wanted a 2nd opinion. 6 months of Lupron (not the small dose you use for IVF...but a huge dose that puts you into temporary menopause) is supposed to have horrible side-effects and it can end up taking 3-6 months after you stop taking it for your periods to come back. So you can see why I was reluctant. Anyway after I started w/ my RE we went right into the fertility treatments and never discussed the Endo again.
My dilemma now is should I have another lap next month and have my RE laser it all off? There is much debate about this. You can find many websites that say lasering off mild Endo won't help fertility at all. Other sites say it does help.... sometimes a lot. I even found one site about an IVF study that showed women w/ mild Endo (Stage 1 or 2) having a huge increase in success rates over women that didn’t have the surgery. When I asked my RE, he said we could do the surgery if we want to try more IUI's, but that it wouldn't help the success rates for an IVF. And the refresh you memory this is the RE we aren't comfortable w/ and won't be using for IVF. So his opinion holds only a little weight w/ me. Basically it comes down to if I'm willing to have another lap for a small chance that it could help w/ the success of our first IVF or maybe for the 2 months we'll be trying on our own before our first IVF. A laparostic surgery has a relatively quick recovery period and it would be covered by my insurance. So... what do you think? Should I go ahead and do the surgery b/c it might help or should I trust that the IVF will bypass any Endo issues. Any opinions, thoughts or knowledge regarding this issue high appreciated.