GREAT appointment...and pictures from surgery too!

Had a GREAT appointment with the RE today! Everything is healing nicely and we've got our plan in motion for IVF. DH & I have to go through a bunch of screening tests over the next 6-7 weeks and we should be able to start our IVF mid-October. Can anyone say EXCITED??

The screening tests will include another semen analysis for DH since his will be over a year old (sorry hun), a saline ultrasound (to make sure my uterus is polyp free & a-ok), a pelvic evaluation (to measure the uterus and do a mock trial transfer), and infectious disease blood tests for both of us. Then we also need to attend a group IVF informational session and order our boatloads of medicine. More good news was had when I found out I could use the $1000+ of meds I had already purchased for the IUI for our IVF cycle instead. There will still be a lot more meds to order, but I'm glad that grand wasn't a waste. The next month and a half should be nice & busy with all of the above appointments so there will be plenty more blog posts to come.

So now to recap what he found when he went in for my surgery. Just like in February, my ovary was at risk. The tube with the e/p had adhered to the ovary, but thank God this doctor was able to "tease" the tube off of the ovary so I didn't lose my last ovary. GIANT PHEW!! I also had a really large blood clot in there and an adhesion on my bowel so he took care of those also. The ovary now looks good and will hopefully give us lots of eggs for our IVF cycle.

He also had pictures of what they found & what they did in the surgery. He said some people don't want to see their pics, but I was like "I'd love to see them!" Call me crazy, but I find it interesting - I mean seriously, how often do you get to see the inside of your abdominal cavity?? And he had doubles of the pics, so for those that don't mind pictures of my insides, I share them with you below.

The giant blackish blob in the bottom half of this picture is a large blood clot. It was sitting right next to my uterus.



The kinda L-shaped blob of tissue in the middle is my swollen fallopian tube adhered to my little white-ish ovary right above it.



My "stump" where my left tube used to be.



This last shot has 2 pics (thanks to my weird scanner.) The pic on the left is just showing the fact that I have no right tube or ovary and the pic on the right shows my cute, healthy ovary (the smaller whitish circle at top center.)



Well, now you all know me inside and out. :-) Like I mentioned earlier, the next few months should be a busy and exciting time for us so I'm glad you'll all be along for the ride!