My first positive update...drum roll please...Aunt Flo arrived yesterday! YES! Can you believe I'm excited about this when normally I curse her name and her appearance at my doorstep?? But yes, this is really good news after all that spotting and wondering when she would appear. Now we can really start getting this IVF show on the road, YAY!
My second positive update - we went to the IVF group session today so we can cross that off the to-do list. It was basically us and two other couples in a board room at the fertility center. One of the nurse practitioners walked us through a PowerPoint presentation of the process, the protocols, etc and answered any questions we had. Poor DH was so tired from getting up at 4am, working all day, then sitting through "death by PowerPoint" in a warm room with a low-talking speaker, I didn't know if he would make it through the presentation. He was afraid when he leaned forward to hear her, he may just fall over and fall asleep. But he made it through and it was a nice refresher of the process.
My third positive update - I spoke with the IVF nurse this morning (now that Aunt Flo had made her appearance) and she'll call me back tomorrow to schedule my saline ultrasound and pelvic evaluation/trial transfer. She called in our prescriptions for our antibiotics - we both have to take Zithromax before the procedure to make sure we're free of any bad bacteria and for me it's also a precaution before the two screening tests I have to do. And she also called in my birth control pills. I found it funny that I have ZERO chance of getting pregnant, yet was at CVS picking up my birth control pills...crazy! I'll only take them for a couple of weeks to calm things down in there and allow us to schedule the next steps.
Which brings me to my fourth positive update - The nurse I spoke with seems quite confident that I can start my IVF cycle during this cycle instead of having to wait for another visit from Aunt Flo. She was going to double check with the doctor and let me know my "calendar" when we talk tomorrow, but if so I'd be starting my BCPs this week, start my stim injections 10/8 and have my egg retrieval approximately 10/18 (this of course will vary depending on how my follies are growing in there.) But wow, wow, wow - this may be moving right along!!
So, I'll post again tomorrow to report on my screening test dates and whether or not the "calendar" is official. Fingers, toes, legs, everything crossed that the new dates are a go!
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