Slow Poke January 28, 2005
I had another ultrasound and bloodwork appointment this morning. A couple more follicles had popped up since Wednesday, but I’m not really counting them since they’re so tiny. I had nine follicles ranging from 9-15mm and three ranging from 3-6mm. My lining measured 1mm thinner than Wednesday. I’m hoping that’s due to how they measured it. I would hate to think that my lining is actually getting thinner. My E2 came back at 1068, so it looks like I’m headed towards another high E2 cycle. Right now my E2 is a touch higher than it was at this point during my other fresh cycle, and I ended up at 4452 at trigger. I’m not looking forward to feeling the effects of that kind of E2 again. So, I’m stimming slowly again this cycle. It took me 11 days to stim during my other fresh cycle, and it looks like it could very well take that long again. I don’t go back in until Monday since I’m being such a slow poke.
After my appointment, I met a friend for lunch. This was not a run of the mill friend, this was an IVF friend. I’ve been posting with her on a message board since we both started our first IVF cycles back in August. We’ve since both had two failed cycles. We finally decided to meet, and it was awesome. It was so nice to be able to talk to someone, someone who actually gets it, face to face about all of this crap. Until today I had never met anyone who had gone through IVF, at least not anyone who had been open about it. It was just amazing to be able to sit there for over an hour talking to her. It was actually pretty cathartic for me.
After lunch I mailed my IVFMeds package back to them. They contacted me on Wednesday after I had gotten both shipments 2 and 3, and no, they are not just letting me keep the extra. I didn’t think they’d just let me keep an extra grand worth of meds. They told me that I could either mail it back to them or remove the labels from my meds and send them on to another one of their customers in the US who had ordered the same thing. Um, yeah, that’s got to be illegal. I told them that I was not comfortable with that, so they gave me the info to send it back to the UK. I think I got the whole Global Express thing figured out at the post office. Hopefully, they’ll get their meds back soon, and I can close the book on this whole horrid experience. Oh, and I received a letter from the FDA concerning shipment 1. Apparently it was seized by customs and sent back to England. It appears that it may not be totally legal to order from them. Oops. I told my husband that I would make a very sympathetic defendant.
I’m hoping to survive this weekend. I’m getting grumpier and grumpier as the days progress. Did I ever mention that my brother in law is staying with us this week? I can’t remember if I’ve blogged about that or not. I can’t remember anything these days, and I’m too lazy to go back and look. Anyway, my BIL is moving to Houston and is in town doing some interviewing and checking out places to live. He’s been here since Sunday, and I don’t actually know when he’s leaving. Obviously this isn’t the best time for a house guest, but he’s here nonetheless. Quite honestly, this arrangement is driving me a little crazy. Little things get on my nerves like lights being left on throughout the apartment, toilet seats being left up, dishes being left in non kitchen areas, etc. I’m really not in the mood to be picking up after another person. I know I shouldn’t have too, but it drives me crazy just to leave those things undone. I’m used to it being just me, my hubby, and the kitties. Any diversion from that throws me off. Like everything else, this too shall pass, and I will live to be able to complain about something else.
- Posted in : IVF Part 3: IVF #2, various other ramblings
- Author : amanda
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Egads, a houseguest at a time like this?!
Last weekend my dad decided to go to the MALL in his CORVETTE just before the BLIZZARD (that had been predicted for
a whole WEEK) hit. Of course he could not get back up the windy hilly road he lives on and nearly came to stay at MY house. And I was OVULATING. Luckily, my mom did not want to be stuck home alone for 2 days and came and got him in her more sensible car!
I’m glad you had such a nice lunch with your new friend. It’s so nice to find other infertiles because they get it.
Damn, I was hoping against hope you could keep those meds. I’m sorry your BIL is there — that would drive me crazy, too. Here’s hoping your cycle continues to go well.
bless you for allowing someone to stay with you while going through this. I would have kicked their ass out by now…especially leaving the seat up. It takes us forever to train the hubby not to do that. Don’t they understand?
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