October 2004
10 posts
Our drs office does two betas (blood tests). They don’t give you the results until after the second one. This is so they have an idea of how things are progressing before they present it to you. Last time, with Becca, the dr himself called on the day of the first test to let us know we were knocked up. The office is WAY busier now. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have the...
September 2004
15 posts
I used to be a big fan of Discovery Channel and TLC. TLC stands for The Learning Channel. What are you raelly learning with Overhaulin’ and What not to Wear? Could we have something of interest please? I happen to like moderately educational. How to redecorate my home cheaply and crappy looking doesn’t excite me. Is this something that anyone else has noticed?
I handled the decision the way I generally handle difficult ones. I didn’t make it. Ben did. That way, if it turns out badly, Ben gets the blame. hehe. We transferred 3. Two 8 celled grade 1 and one 9 celled grade 1. The dr said they all scored 100 on their chart and they couldn’t get any better. He said that the chances of triplets was probably only 8-10%. Ben and my luck...
Embryo transfer will be today. I was getting nervous, as I had assumed from what others who went to this dr had said, that he always went with 3-day transfers. At retrieval, we were told that we would find out today if it would be a 3-day or a 5-day. Anywho, at 12:30 to 1:00 pm, we will be transfering (?). I don’t know how many yet. I don’t know how many are left. I...
Out of the 23 eggs yesterday, 22 were mature. Of those, 19 fertilized. Therefore, at this point, Ben and I have 19 potential offspring sitting in petri dishes. The next update we get will be on Thursday.
So here the dr was, guestimating 15 eggs on the slightly high side so the embryologists would be ready for me. Wrong! I went into the room, aching with my hips in pain. I woke up feeling fantastic. I asked if I was on pain meds, and was told no, it was just all the eggs being gone. For the rest of the day so far, I have been feeling less discomfort than you would feel if you just had a full...
Yet another drs appt. today, and yet more blood loss to the vampires. We will be having egg retrieval on Monday. i willbe getting a call later today telling me exactly what time. The dr thinks we will get about 15 eggs. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they will all be mature and good. We probably woulnd’t get a fertilization report until Tuesday. About time. In the meantime, I...
We used an accountant for our taxes for several years. We had asked said accountants office if IVF costs could be deducted under medical expenses on taxes. We were told no, because it is elective, but we could deduct the medication. So lately on the bulletin boards I’ve been seeing women talking about the nice tax returns they get because of deducting IVF costs. I go to the IRS...
Another check at the drs today. We had two follicles that are ready to go now. They are 19 and 20 mm. If we triggered now, we would get about 5 eggs. Not terribly many. We are going to drop the two super ready ones by the wayside. I will continue to take my stim drugs for two more days, with another check Saturday morning. Hopefully, trigger shot will be Saturday night, with a Monday...
I went in today for my ultrasound and bloodwork. Yes, more blood gone. Apparently my levels are fine, as they said nothing to me about them. The right ovary has 4 or 5 follicles from 10-12mm. There are about 6 others that are below 10mm. The left side has probably about 10 follicles just below 10mm or so. Lining is at 13 mm. The dr likes to see it between 10 and 15. My lupron dose has...
I had a strong moment of fear this evening. I gathered togather all of my needle/drug paraphanelia to mix my repronex shot this evening. This shot is to be given sub-q. That is, into the fatty tissue in the abdomen. The pharmacist forgot to give us any of the 1/2 inch sub-q needles. The pharmacy closes at 6. I noticed this at 5:45. We live in St. Peters. The pharmacy is at Mo-Bap. I...
I finally was called last night just before 7pm. I guess my numbers are still a tad on the high side, so I have had to up my lupron from 5 units to 10 per day. I did get to start stims last night. I am already pretty bloated. I went out and bought myself sweat pants today for my gut.
Went in today for the blood draw. Last week, they called about 1:45 to let me know that I would need to take the antagon. Hadn’t heard from them by 3:30, so called and left a message for my nurse. Still hadn’t heard from them by 4:15, and I was worried about them leaving the office and not letting me know how it went. According to my calender/schedule, I am supposed to start stims...
I went into the drs office today for bloodwork and an ultrasound to verify that the lupron and birth control pills had properly suppressed me. The very first time Ben and I tried to do IVF, we were on lupron. We went in for the suppression ultrsound prior to starting the stim drugs, and got cancelled, due to a cyst. The following two fresh cycles, we were on the antagon protocol. We (me) took...
I woke up this morning and immediately realized that something was wrong. Ben had left for work. Not a big deal, you say? Normally, no. But we are doing in-vitro, and I do not give myself shots! Heck, his only job during the whole lead-up is to give me the shots! My job is to get fat, very cranky and very bloated. Lucky for him, he was able to turn around and come home and shoot me up.