Moving to the City!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 was an exciting day!  Because of my schedule at SUNY Potsdam, I needed to return from NYC for a short time, and Wendy needed to be in a location where she could get to CRM without a vehicle.  We were fortunate to find reasonable accommodations at The Bentley Hotel, just a few blocks away from the hospital, so we reserved a room there for five nights.  We weren't sure how much longer the cycle would take, but five nights seemed safe, and we could move back to NJ, if necessary, to save money if the cycle went longer.

We arose early again this morning, after sleeping fitfully.  Wendy thought we may have taken too many naps the previous day, but we might have been excited about actually staying in Manhattan as well, who knows?  Regardless, getting out of bed early was a bit easier today than it was other days...

Results at CRM were encouraging - though growth still seemed a bit slow, the follicles were steadily getting larger, measuring 15.5, 14.5, and 13 mm this morning.  Estrogen levels were good as well.

We returned to the Ramada Inn, had breakfast, then packed up our belongings so we could check out by noon.  We did, then had some time to pass before we could check into The Bentley, so we went to the mall to do some "shopping."  I always have to put that word in quotes, since we don't ever buy much at a mall, but we like to walk around and look!  We also managed to find something suitable for lunch there, at a place called Great Wraps.  They were pretty great, actually - Wendy had Philly steak, and I had Buffalo chicken!  For dessert, we had ice cream at The Cold Stone Creamery, so yum!

Finally, we headed back in to the city, arriving at our hotel around 2:50 p.m., a bit before checkin.  We actually had to wait a while for our room to be ready, but the lobby was quite nice, if a bit busy.  This may have been the fanciest place we've stayed, with a lot of service people; what that really means is a lot of people expecting tips!  I'm not very knowledgeable about such things, so I may have either overpaid or insulted people with the amounts I gave, when I had some cash available.

I went for a walk that evening.  One neat thing about the streets in NYC is that the east-west streets are precisely designed, and 20 blocks is one mile.  So, I walked 10 blocks and back, meaning I covered a full mile.  It was a lot better scenery than walking on a treadmill at the other hotel!

Naturally, we needed dinner a bit later, so we ordered delivery from Belmora Pizza - wings, fries, a sausage roll, and a loaded pizza.  Our room was very small, and didn't have a refrigerator, but we could keep some leftovers cool to use the next day, and that was our plan.  Staying stocked with ice for the cooler was also interesting, since ice was not accessible to the public - we had to call the front desk, and a service person would bring a bucket of ice to the door, naturally expecting a tip for doing so!  :)