Another backslide

Rainclouds moving in over the ranch

I ended up going in for bloodwork today instead of tomorrow because I was in the area and they had said the 12th or 13th would be fine.  Hours later, Dr. Sunshine called me from his vacation to tell me how "highly unusual" my pattern has been...

Let's recap, shall we?  My betas, in order:

7.5 --- 71 --- 540 --- 3,000 --- miscarriage with Misoprostol --- 2,000 --- 1,300 --- 1,700 --- modified endo biopsy (to try to move things along) ---1,500 --- 1,267 --- 1,670 --- MTX (2 shots) --- 600 --- 386 --- 401 (today). WTF!!

He assured me that while it was highly unusual, and the whole office sounds baffled and frustrated for me, that it is not "ominous".  He explained that with the low-ish numbers (i.e. not in the multiple thousands) and in the face of my lack of bad symptoms like alot of pain or bleeding, that it is not at risk for being any kind of weird crazy growing placental tissue such as what is called gestational trophoblastic tumors.  He said we could probably not do anything, and the number might plateau for awhile and eventually drop, but he wasn't comfortable doing that and had no idea how long it might take.  He said he would like me to go back in and get another MTX shot. 

Yayyy.  :-[

In other news, I get my bike back tomorrow in time for a whole lotta rain!   We are getting periodic swaths of heavy rain tonight and it is kind of cool... tomorrow is going to be cold, rainy, thundery and windy though.  I am so happy to have the day off, but Mario has to work. 

One of my clients gave me a great pep talk today about my prices (currently $55) and self worth and all this stuff, it was funny and well said... mimicing what Mario and my therapist have said as well, and made me feel good.  :)   When we got back to the car after she had left, I saw that she had left me a check for $65 and in the notes section she wrote, "You are worth it!!!!"  :) 
I told her I was going to frame it and save it.  ;)