Celebrating 5 years of fertility treatments and our fifth overall fertility cycle this month! Just kidding, more like punching it in the face. Thank God {my Wonderful, All Powerful, Miracle Working God} for my little Khloe Denise, because without her (and sometimes with her) somebody would be likely to get punched in the face. Okay, really... I don't punch people unless I'm 8 and your names are John and Josh and you just put a worm in my hair.
So yes, anyways, today is my last day of not being a lab rat. Tomorrow we get our shipment of needles and drugs, stop taking the birth control pills, and begin our cycle. I'm not really THAT nervous this time. I think I've come to terms with accepting that this will either work or it wont. I don't Google every single little symptom anymore, I don't worry about all the little wives tales and this and that, I just go through the process and wait for the results.
We get to break out our drug making Breaking Bad lab coats next Tuesday morning and concoct our first teeny tiny shot of these massive personality changing hormones. If all goes well, I get to go to the doctor every day during the first full week of January and get more needles put in me (daily blood draw) and for ultrasounds to see how I'm responding to the medication. The bulk of the surgical procedures will be during this week, with the egg retrieval being on or around January 6th and the transfer being January 8th.
If you follow our story and have been praying for us, I would just ask that you would pray for a very relaxed, stress-free experience, that my body would respond properly to the meds, and that we would have thriving embryo(s) to transfer (and even better, some to freeze!).
After the transfer, begins the dreaded "two week wait"! After two weeks, we'll go back in for our final blood test to determine if we're pregnant.
Here we go!
So yes, anyways, today is my last day of not being a lab rat. Tomorrow we get our shipment of needles and drugs, stop taking the birth control pills, and begin our cycle. I'm not really THAT nervous this time. I think I've come to terms with accepting that this will either work or it wont. I don't Google every single little symptom anymore, I don't worry about all the little wives tales and this and that, I just go through the process and wait for the results.
We get to break out our drug making Breaking Bad lab coats next Tuesday morning and concoct our first teeny tiny shot of these massive personality changing hormones. If all goes well, I get to go to the doctor every day during the first full week of January and get more needles put in me (daily blood draw) and for ultrasounds to see how I'm responding to the medication. The bulk of the surgical procedures will be during this week, with the egg retrieval being on or around January 6th and the transfer being January 8th.
If you follow our story and have been praying for us, I would just ask that you would pray for a very relaxed, stress-free experience, that my body would respond properly to the meds, and that we would have thriving embryo(s) to transfer (and even better, some to freeze!).
After the transfer, begins the dreaded "two week wait"! After two weeks, we'll go back in for our final blood test to determine if we're pregnant.
Here we go!
We're thinking of you and praying. Hope all goes well.
ReplyDeleteHoping and praying all goes well and we will soon be reading that little miss Khloe will be getting a brother or sister!!! Love you :)
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