2 weeks!

I'm dying here. I think I like the bustle of a stim cycle. Sitting around, preparing for an FET is just so mellow and gives me lots of time to think. Too much time to think. So, I'm trying to stay busy. I started patches on Monday and finally decreased to 5 units of lupron on Tuesday. My regular nurse also called on Tuesday when she got in to tell me that the extra lupron won't affect anything. Whew. I go in on Monday for my first E2 check and then next Saturday for my E2 and lining check. Then we are leaving right away. We are going down to Gettysburg PA on Saturday and meeting up with a good friend of mine from college. We have a ghost tour scheduled Saturday night, we will stick around most of Sunday and then start to head northwest that afternoon. I'm so happy we are doing the road trip - it lets me focus on things like packing, what we need, finding fun things to visit, etc.

I really have nothing much else to say. I'm just really anxious to get started. I think I'm afraid of too thin a lining/too thick of a lining/cancelling the cycle/failure. There are just so many things! So, I'm glad that it is finally the weekend. I'm teaching yoga this morning and have some errands to run this afternoon. Tomorrow morning I have to head out with Brett very early to get to the farmer's market to get more plants (we planted the garden so I'll post pics on Monday), then I have a baby shower for my neighbor Sat afternoon. She got pregnant right after me so she is finally at 30 weeks (hard to imagine we'd be so close to giving birth if all had gone well!). I've spoken of her before - she is the one whose beautiful son will be born with spina bifida- so her and her husband are going through a lot right now- excitement, nerves, fear, sadness, happiness -I can't even begin to imagine all the things they are going through. I'm just hoping that she has a fun, beautiful shower and her boy is born healthier than expected and surprises all of the doctors! After that, I'm sure Brett will keep me busy - we have lots to do around the house! So, I'll update with pics on Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!

messed up

We messed up a shot last night. 7 IVF's and this is the first time we've screwed up like this. I was getting up to get my shot and the phone rang, so I answered it. While I was talking to my brother, Brett started getting the shot ready and despite the fact that I've been saying for 2 days how much I am dying to cut down my lupron shot from 10 units to 5 on MONDAY, he proceeded to fill it with 10 units, signalled to me to expose some belly, I did, while talking on the phone, he gave me the shot. One second later, I pulled the phone away, and said, "that was 5 units, right?" and which point, there was about 5 minutes of things I refuse to print being said in a loud angry voice (edited to add, he was the one cursing- he felt so bad!!! I was just tearing up b/c I had such a bad headache!). I got off the phone with my brother and we discussed. I was freaked out. He was upset. I called the nurse line and talked to a nurse (my nurse is out on Mondays) and she says it is "probably" fine. I am hoping it won't affect anything. Of course, we have to screw it up on our most important cycle, right? Also, on top of that, I've really had the WORST lupron headaches this time. I am miserable - my eyeballs and teeth hurt this cycle. I was literally dying to lower the dose and then we messed up. I felt so bad for Brett because he was miserable about forgetting to lower the dose. I guess you just get so used to doing the same thing over and over again that it becomes routine and you forget to change it. So, I did some research last night and it seems that some people stay on 10 units the entire FET cycle. Some even do 20 units so I think an extra day of 10 units shouldn't hurt, right? after all, I think all the lupron is doing at this point is suppressing me, right?