Day 48=period

FINALLY!! Long story short, I have been back and forth with the doctor's office and had an appointment for this morning, but I was able to cancel that and just start on the drug protocol, which is a daily birth control pill, then on the 27th I add in the injections of Lupron (which from what I understand will make me suffer from "wild emotional variability" HA!) So here we go!!

waiting... that's all I ever do!

Doctor visit went fine Tuesday night, and all the blood work came back ok, but here I am Day 40 and still no period. If I get to Day 45 (Tuesday) without one I am to call the office and go in for ultrasound and blood work. As anxious as I am to get moving on all this, maybe it's a GOOD thing to have it pushed back just a smidge. At this rate, the transfer might not be the end of May but instead be early in June... so at the moment I'm shooting for June 9th because I'll be out of school by then. AND, looking ahead from there, in the hopes this results in a pregnancy I would be due a smidge later in February so as to be a little closer to a maternity leave ending and the summer break beginning. Ahhhh the things to think about!

Dr. tomorrow

The authorization for this "IVF" cycle has gone through and my medications were all ordered and delivered already, and I am to begin a birth control pill (weird, huh?) on the first day of my period. As we all know, the standard length of a cycle is 28 days, but I'm rarely regular... anytime from 23 days to 38 days seems to be typical for me. My last cycle was only 25 days, so quite honestly I expected to get a period while I was on vacation the end of March. Nope, here we are, Day 37, and nothing. Argh. Tomorrow night I have an appointment to have blood drawn, sign all the consents, and be taught how to do the medications, and if I'm still sans period I'll be asking what can be done about that!

picture

Right after I made the last post I looked at the picture on this blog and started laughing... it might be time to remove the "biological shipper" picture and replace it with something else! Of course, I guess the same thing could be said about the title of this blog! ;)

SO EXCITED!!

On Monday, I went to the fertility clinic to pick up the embryo donor profile. I really didn't need to see it before deciding I WANT them, but they insisted that I take it, look it over and think about it, and call them today with my "decision." The embryos were created by a couple that used an egg donor, and as a result, I was able to see a picture of the woman the eggs came from. That somehow made it more real... my mom was with me so she got to see her picture too. So today I called and told them with no uncertainty that I want to do this, and off we go! They need to get authorization and I have some consents to sign, some more basic blood work, and then on day 20 of my next cycle I'll start injections of a drug called Lupron. Add in some other drugs and 3 to 4 weeks later they'll transfer an embryo! It looks like it will be towards the end of May, and then it will be a matter of crossing fingers and saying lots of prayers! I am beyond excited... PLEASE let the fertility roller coaster be mostly behind me now!