What a day-

Well, we had our IUI this morning.

Then I get home, talk to my mentally ill mother for an hour (felt like forever), then I get online...

Only to realize something terrible was happening in Tex.as. Of course, my sister's family is stationed at F.ort Ho.od... so I, of course, went into panic mode when I read that several people were dead and many more injured, and that it wasn't over yet. Base was locked down, sister's lines were busy, and I spent a tense half-hour hoping everyone was okay.

My sister called me eventually, and thank goodness they were fine; although my brother-in-law was trapped on base on lock down, and one location of the shooting had occured a building in very, very, close proxemity to him... but he was safe. I am relieved, of course, that my family is safe- yet so saddened by what happened, my heart goes out to the families of the individuals who were affected by this tragedy today.

At the moment my own woes seem irrevelvant in comparrison... I would like to throw a fit about the physical pain I am in, the way my ovaries feel like they have exploded and are seeping lava into my abdomen... but it kinda falls flat after realizing how much worse my day could have been. How much worse it was for so many others.

But I will say that physically I am not feeling so well, and I think it's from my follicles releasing. I feel emotionally exhausted from the IUI, the tragedy in T.ex.as, the upheaval of life's order... I am ready for bed. It feels like it's been a very long day.