I start the Lupron on Sunday 13 Oct.
22 Oct I have my ultrasound to see if I'm suppressed.
5 November is my lining check.
Sometime after that about 7 days give or take a day I'll be doing the embryo transfer.
I would have posted a photo of my calendar but I'm so used to this now that the all the novelty has worn off.
Don't get me wrong I'm still very hopeful but I'm just not all dancing in my chair right now either. I'm tired. I've been bleeding for 13 days all while on birth control. If you have been following me since the beginning you'll know that I don't respond well to hormones. To the bleeding while on birth control all I can say is Meh.
Showing posts with label birth control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birth control. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Working Out Some Calendar Kinks
Just spoke with my nurse at PNW. The doctor wanted to keep me on 6 weeks of bcp. Ugh! NO!
I'm so nauseated, having acid reflux really bad too, that I don't want to eat because of the bcp. So noted and they'll bump up the FET.
With any luck I'll start the Lupron in about a week or two and have a transfer before Thanksgiving. As it stands the schedule would have me doing the transfer the first week of December. So maybe mid November a transfer is possible.
The fax machine at my local RE office is now kaput. They were hoping that the budget would have passed and they would have purchased a new one. So now all the formally faxed orders will have to be email to the IVF nurse coordinator at the local office.
One of the reasons PNW wanted to push for a second bcp pack was that they misunderstood our schedule and thought J would be out of town for the month of November. He'll be here in garrison. Now that they know that they are more than happy to fix the calendar.
I'm so nauseated, having acid reflux really bad too, that I don't want to eat because of the bcp. So noted and they'll bump up the FET.
With any luck I'll start the Lupron in about a week or two and have a transfer before Thanksgiving. As it stands the schedule would have me doing the transfer the first week of December. So maybe mid November a transfer is possible.
The fax machine at my local RE office is now kaput. They were hoping that the budget would have passed and they would have purchased a new one. So now all the formally faxed orders will have to be email to the IVF nurse coordinator at the local office.
One of the reasons PNW wanted to push for a second bcp pack was that they misunderstood our schedule and thought J would be out of town for the month of November. He'll be here in garrison. Now that they know that they are more than happy to fix the calendar.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Seven Days
I have just seven more days left on my birth control.
Sunday I start the Lupron.
Tomorrow the utility room repair should be mostly finished. Hopefully they'll remember to do the floor tiles too. If not they'll have to schedule that for another week.
Tomorrow night J and I go on the marriage retreat. This one is going to be a bit different since it is through the Catholic church.
I'm anxious. I'm a bit crabby.
I should get to work on the Last Will and Testament worksheets so that we can make an appointment to get our Wills made up.
I need to get cracking on the book for the book club which is due next week. I'm enjoying the book but I'm behind because I was sick last week.
Instead of reading I find myself doing other projects I've put off in favor of other energy requiring projects that were needed to be done first. I need to find a sense of order in this chaos I call my life. I miss routine.
I think I need a huge calendar.
Sunday I start the Lupron.
Tomorrow the utility room repair should be mostly finished. Hopefully they'll remember to do the floor tiles too. If not they'll have to schedule that for another week.
Tomorrow night J and I go on the marriage retreat. This one is going to be a bit different since it is through the Catholic church.
I'm anxious. I'm a bit crabby.
I should get to work on the Last Will and Testament worksheets so that we can make an appointment to get our Wills made up.
I need to get cracking on the book for the book club which is due next week. I'm enjoying the book but I'm behind because I was sick last week.
Instead of reading I find myself doing other projects I've put off in favor of other energy requiring projects that were needed to be done first. I need to find a sense of order in this chaos I call my life. I miss routine.
I think I need a huge calendar.
Friday, March 22, 2013
CD 1 and Some Other Stuff
Right now I'm on the phone with Stephanie at PNW trying to figure out what we are going to do and when.
I have four packs of birth control on hand that don't expire until this summer. Two in June and two in August.
Just finished my phone conversation. Today I start the birth control pills.
Next week Sarah will give me a call with an update and a possible prescription change if needed along with a calender if things are fully ready. Hopefully we'll know more about the embryo situation by then.
Wow. I mean just wow! One step closer to my DE IVF.
Today is an amazing day. Not just because I start on the journey that could give me a baby but that ten years ago today I met my husband.
We were at a friends wedding. I knew the bride, I worked with her, and I was also friends with the groom. J went to college with both the bride and groom. Funny how J and I never met on campus since we were both attending the same college.
It was my job to drive the groom the five hours to the wedding ceremony the day before the wedding. Though that couple has long ago started the divorce proceedings J and I are still together. Ours is a love that should, given all we've been through already, last till death.
Oh the sun is shining here today too. Hoping it stays a nice day.
I'm currently working on making my first ever baby sweater. The gal I gave the baby afghan to the other day is now going to have a baby shower for her third baby. I'm giving her a hat and bootie set from my shop too. Hopefully I'll have the sweater put together before her shower. I've never done a sweater and feel a bit daunted. It is a challenge I'm going to accept because if I do this one right I know I can make them for my baby/ies too.
Yesterday J came home at lunch with my appreciation certificate. Well okay it wasn't a certificate this time. I was expecting the same old computer printed thank you for your volunteering certificate that I would put in my folder. Last year I attended the volunteer luncheon but they forgot to send out our certificates of appreciation. This year nothing about the luncheon has gone out and usually it is in mid April. No big deal. But what J brought home did surprise me. I got a plaque.
I don't think I'll be able to put this plaque in my folder I told him. I had a slight smile. I've never been given a plaque for my volunteering. I volunteer because it is fun to help out with the Army. I make blankets when possible for the wounded warrior program, cookies for the soldiers at the COF and I'm a point of contact for the FRG. A plaque is just too much. I haven't even hung up my diplomas from college. With 10-17 weeks left here I have my doubts I'll be hanging any on the walls at this point. Most likely I'll start taking things off the walls soon.
Sorry long post. Rambled on again.
I have four packs of birth control on hand that don't expire until this summer. Two in June and two in August.
Just finished my phone conversation. Today I start the birth control pills.
Next week Sarah will give me a call with an update and a possible prescription change if needed along with a calender if things are fully ready. Hopefully we'll know more about the embryo situation by then.
Wow. I mean just wow! One step closer to my DE IVF.
Today is an amazing day. Not just because I start on the journey that could give me a baby but that ten years ago today I met my husband.
We were at a friends wedding. I knew the bride, I worked with her, and I was also friends with the groom. J went to college with both the bride and groom. Funny how J and I never met on campus since we were both attending the same college.
It was my job to drive the groom the five hours to the wedding ceremony the day before the wedding. Though that couple has long ago started the divorce proceedings J and I are still together. Ours is a love that should, given all we've been through already, last till death.
Oh the sun is shining here today too. Hoping it stays a nice day.
I'm currently working on making my first ever baby sweater. The gal I gave the baby afghan to the other day is now going to have a baby shower for her third baby. I'm giving her a hat and bootie set from my shop too. Hopefully I'll have the sweater put together before her shower. I've never done a sweater and feel a bit daunted. It is a challenge I'm going to accept because if I do this one right I know I can make them for my baby/ies too.
Yesterday J came home at lunch with my appreciation certificate. Well okay it wasn't a certificate this time. I was expecting the same old computer printed thank you for your volunteering certificate that I would put in my folder. Last year I attended the volunteer luncheon but they forgot to send out our certificates of appreciation. This year nothing about the luncheon has gone out and usually it is in mid April. No big deal. But what J brought home did surprise me. I got a plaque.
I don't think I'll be able to put this plaque in my folder I told him. I had a slight smile. I've never been given a plaque for my volunteering. I volunteer because it is fun to help out with the Army. I make blankets when possible for the wounded warrior program, cookies for the soldiers at the COF and I'm a point of contact for the FRG. A plaque is just too much. I haven't even hung up my diplomas from college. With 10-17 weeks left here I have my doubts I'll be hanging any on the walls at this point. Most likely I'll start taking things off the walls soon.
Sorry long post. Rambled on again.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Waiting For Some Good News
Oh good one of my doctor's just called me back. Still I'm waiting but I have some good news to share now. I've made it to the October IVF list. YAY!
Now I just have to get put on birth control, take a five hour class and have a saline sonogram. Oh joy!
I just had to ask the doctor why I'd be put on birth control if we are trying to get me pregnant. She explained the best she could then said I'll find out more in the five hour class. Since I get a lot of cysts the birth control will help quiet down my ovaries until they start injecting me with the hormones.
Yes this is going to be quite a long process of me getting poked, prodded, and needle stuck. But that's just fine and dandy with me as long as the end result is a healthy baby.
My husband is already worried about me and can't believe the extremes I'd go through just to produce a child. I guess he'll never understand since he gets the easy part. Well the easy part isn't so easy because he won't get to share in the joy of the hormone changes and feeling the baby move. Now I'm jumping ahead too far.
It might not work at all. I might not be able to carry a child. Age does affect everything. Even if I do get pregnant it might not stay around to full term.
I'm high risk and I'm trying to do the impossible or so it seems at my age.
I've got two more months to lose some weight and I'm trying hard. Obesity is just one of the risk factors I have. In the past 5 days since J left I've managed to lose 3 pounds. Nothing to sneeze at I think. I've got about 60 more to go.
We'll see where this journey takes me now.
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