Hi there! Not too much action on the IVF front this week. But before I get into our next task in the process, Sunday night was a bit weird. It seemed as though Aunt Flo had shown up a week and a half early so I was like WTH?? But it only lasted until Monday evening then changed over to spotting now so I'm thinking it might just be some kind of weird mid-cycle bleeding after my ectopic? Who knows! Your guess is as good as mine.
Anyways, over the next week or so DH and I will get our infectious disease bloodwork done. They'll run a CBC and run tests to check for diseases like HIV, hepatitis B & C, and syphilis. These are checked so that if any come back positive they would take additional precautions during the fertilization process and for HIV cases, counsel the patient as needed. The bloodwork I have done will also check for immunity to rubella and chicken pox. If I were not immune, I would need to postpone the IVF so I could be vaccinated for these prior to the cycle since exposure to these during pregnancy can cause birth defects. Guess I'm glad to have suffered through chicken pox as a kid.
So we'll probably have a quiet week or two on the IVF front, but I'll keep posting as I have updates! For now, gotta run pup out for his post-lunch walk then it's back to editing user manuals for work (insert giant SIGH). IVF talk is much more interesting than my job so you're lucky I don't bore you with the details of work. :-)
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