Hello Injections. I’ve Missed You So. January 14, 2006
I’m on to the shooting up phase of this cycle. It feels like it’s been forever since I plunged a needle into my flesh. We’re becoming reacquainted quickly, though.
Yesterday I started my microdose Lupron two times a day, and today I’m adding in my Gonal-F twice a day. I actually feel like I’m cycling now.
To coincide with the start of shooting up, it looks like the withdrawal bleed that I wasn’t sure would happen due to the fact that I was only on BCPs for 10 days and the fact that my lining was only 1.6mm at baseline has started. That sucks that my lining will virtually be nonexistent at the start of stims.
I’m working on a plan so that I won’t have to repeat the middle of the night drive again. Yes, I survived it, but the whole time I was driving in the dark on way too little sleep, I was thinking about how not smart it was to be doing so. I guess it wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t that long of a drive, but it is. I figure I’m putting my body through enough right now without all of that.
Part one of the plan starts tomorrow. Dan has the day off from work on Monday, so we’re going to drive over to Houston, do some of the stuff that we miss over there, spend the night, and then drive back home after my appointment Monday morning. Someone to share the drive with, splitting it up into two days, and not having to get up in the middle of the night all sound like pluses to me. I managed to score a very, very good deal on a hotel room for tomorrow night through Priceline. (Can we say a $159 hotel room for $33? Sweet!)
Undoubtedly I’ll have to go back for monitoring on Wednesday and Friday, so I think I’m going to try to hone my Priceline skills and attempt to find a similar deal for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. We’ll see what I can come up with. That way I could just stay in Houston without the killer middle of the night drive. I’ll come home on the weekend and then attempt to find another good hotel deal for the beginning of the following week.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this plan works, because I really don’t want to kill myself on the road but I also don’t want to fork out a ton of money. This stuff is expensive enough as it is.
- Posted in : IVF Part 6: IVF #4
- Author : amanda
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Sounds like you’re leading a similar life to me right now. I’m also walking around like a zombie. I have to get up to drive to my clinic for an 8 AM appt. tomorrow (it’s “only” 2 1/2 hr away though so I feel bad complaining given your drive.
And, we were going to try some overnights but, now we can’t due to my cat. Poor little Kobi just went through exploratory surgery. To make matters worse, it wasn’t needed and we made the mistake of following the advice of incompetent vets (long story). So, $ 3,000 later and after numerous tests and procedures, it appears the poor little guy really just had some sort of gastrointestinal illness….kidneys look fine (after that whole scare), no foreign objects lodged in there. What he does have now is yellowing of the liver due to not eating enough…probably as the result of all of this stress. ARGHH. I could just shoot myself right now. I really feel like I’ve failed him. I’m sitting here wondering what I’m doing trying to have a baby when I clearly can’t even manage to make the right health care decisions for my poor cat :(
Anyway, I’m hoping you find some good priceline deals and manage to get a little more sleep this week.
Staci
$33! That’s great. I hope you find something for the rest of the week. That drive would kill me.
That’s a great price. Hopefully you can score those prices again so you can make it through the week without being too sleep deprived. Have a nice time in Houston on Sunday.
hoping that the anti-driving solutions work out. I assume you don’t have friends you could impose on?
I hope the hotel thing works out. We did that yesterday for an appointment this a.m.,( my drive is only 3 hours so I won’t whine! ) and it was a lifesaver. We also found out the hotel accepts pets..the pups get a trip next time too! Luckily we go through another RE clinic for local monitoring during the week, but plans are in place for ret/transfer. Best of luck to you.
Good news on the hotel deal, Amanda! I hope your next stay works out just as well. Cycling is stressful enough as it is…
Smart idea! I hope you can find more deals.
Oof, that’s a lot of early early driving … hope the hotel works out.
Good plan, Amanda. You know you missed the needles really haha!
Work that Priceline, A, work it, work it!
That’s a cheap hotel room! I hope you have luck in finding more good deals. It’s certainly nicer to spend the night in a hotel rather driving through the night…
Good luck with the Priceline search - I hope it works out. Staying in Houston sounds like a much better plan than driving back and forth so many times.