Don't Label me Infertile! How I got here
How I got here: I met Kevin when I was 16 years old. I had a summertime babysitting job and they happened to have a car for sale and it was listed in the paper. I happen to answer the phone one day and...
View ArticleMy first appointment with a new clinic
I had my first appointment with the new fertility clinic on November 3rd. This was after several phone calls and emails with their research coordinator. I had 9 pages of demographics and health history...
View Articleoh no, not that room!
So, I started my peroid on 11/7 and had my second appointment with the clinic. Big Dallas hair was smiles and sporting another black suit. I looked around and realized that everyone there wears black...
View Articleresults
We all have that one or two people in our lives that we tell everything too. I have a couple of those people but I also have a special person that has been my wingwoman through the beginning of this....
View ArticleThe Friday from hell: warning: contains explicatives. lots of them.
Friday, Friday , Friday. Where do I begin?. I went to work early so that I could get the work I needed to get done completed and then go to my appointment. It's a hours drive, straight through downtown...
View Article2 minutes flat!
I've been on the Lupron for 6 days as of Thanksgiving. I am on 20units and the injections go in my belly, where I can pinch an inch. Plenty of inch, I assure you. These injections are not bad at all....
View ArticleMenopur and Gram
On Black Friday, I went for my baseline ultrasound. LeeAnn (dimples) wasn't there. Instead, Jodi, the medical assistant was going to be doing my ultrasound. This was to establish the size and number of...
View Article4 things you need to know!
OK. So everyone knows that after you have children, and as you get older, the ability to hold your bladder becomes a little weak. Couple that with growing a chicken coop of eggs in your abdomen and a...
View ArticleThe Case of the Mysterious disappearing Diarrhea!
I arrived for my appointment on Wednesday ten minutes early (6:50am) and had to wait outside the door until the staff arrived at 7am. I assumed my usual un-assigned seat and surfed facebook on my phone...
View ArticleAre hail and sleet the same thing?
Wow, What a whirl wind past week. After my appointment on Wednesday, I've been back to the clinic everyday. My estrogen levels were very high and Dr. Nackley wanted to see me daily for an ultrasound...
View ArticleHarvest time
Today was my egg retrieval. We had to leave at 6:30 this morning and drop Rachel off at school on the way to the clinic. The drive to Bedford from Rockwall is about a hour straight through downtown...
View ArticleEGGstatic
I got a call from the embryologist on Wednesday with the fertilization status of the eggs. Seven have fertilized normally and are growing. She told me that statistically, only about half of those will...
View ArticleMy embryo transfer
On the day after the egg harvesting, I went work and was so sore and uncomfortable, and bloated, I had to come home early from work. My belly was so swollen, I couldn't even button my pants. I was...
View Article