Well on the Way

It's been a little bit since I posted and a bunch of stuff has happened--all good!

First: we passed our injection class!!! Mike overcame his fear of needles and injections and managed to do the intramuscular injection. Three of the meds will be subcutaneous, and I'll inject them in my stomach once a day. Those really didn't hurt too bad at all--so that's good. The intramuscular are 1 injection per day but they do hurt a little. Oh well.

Second: we had our mock embryo transfer today. Everything is looking really great right now. There's a small cyst on my right ovary which is probably just my body trying to ovulate on birth control and they're sure it will go away. The dr told me today that I have "a beautiful cavity." LOL.

We start our Lupron injections on Saturday--hooray!!! And then it's on from there!!!!

Protocol is Here!

Finally got my protocol. I'm sooooo excited!!!!! So, we'll start injectible meds on the 17th. Tentative dates then are egg retrieval on 3/9 and embryo transfer on 3/12 or 3/14. The reason there are two dates for embryo transfer is that it all depends on how long they decide to let them grow. If they transfer on 3/12, they will put 2 of the day 3 embryos back in, if they wait until 3/14 it will be one blastocyst.

So far, we're doing pretty good with all this. My body is starting to adjust to the birth control pills--but it isn't happy about it. And my insurance company approved coverage for the injectible drugs, so that's fantastic news. Tomorrow is our injection class and IVF seminar. Woo hoo.

No more antibiotics

Well, today marks the last antibiotic for a while. And it wasn't as bad as I had thought it would be. i usually have a lot of problems with antibiotics--I have sensitivities to several, but I did very well with these. Woo Hoo, because i'll have to be on them again later!!!

Thought the protocol would come yesterday, but no such luck. So maybe today. The office is great about getting stuff out right away. We watched the injection video, not nearly as bad and I had thought. Most of the injections will go into my stomach, and thank goodness there's a bunch of fat there to cushion it!!!!

Mike and I are still going strong with WW. I've lost almost 7 pounds now and Mike has lost over 12. And yet, we're still eating really yummy stuff!

the puppies continue to do well. Roger is a little rough with Sawyer, but he's getting better. Sawyer's having a tough time with housebreaking at times, not sure why, but I'm sure he'll get it together soon. At least he hasn't pooped in the house.

I sent my transcript requests in and applied to Penn State. I'm really excited about it. In the fall, I'll need to reapply for the nursing program and then wait to see if I get in there. I think I'll be in good shape. So, that's about all. Nothing super exciting, but we're moving along here.