I'm on the waiting list for a nap

Monday, February 27, 2006

I'm on a waiting list for a nap

What a week. I have been a very busy girl.

On Sunday we were at the RE's office bright and early at 8am. I brought scooby snacks to the nurses at the RE's office thinking that if I really didn't want to be there on a Sunday morning neither did they. I thought that maybe some raspberry muffins might brighten their day. If nothing else a little good karma sure wouldn't hurt. I don't really know how I thought that muffins would raise my chance of a pregnancy from 5% to some undetermined higher rate but who doesn't love flawed logic.

We were taken back into a room so they could do an ultrasound to check follicle growth. I love that a vaginal ultrasound is so commonplace to me now. Pre-IF I would have asked lots of questions but now it is as ordinary as say blowing my nose. She saw one mature follicle on my left ovary and one or two immature ones on my right ovary. She seemed excited about this, happy that I had responded to the clomid. I wasn't all that impressed. While I don't have an ultrasound every month I have done OPK's and I consistently have an LH surge every month. To me that means that I produce a mature follicle every month. Being on clomid didn't get my body to do anything that it doen't normally do. So what is the point? I guess I shouldn't really complain. I have heard of women who have horrible side effects on clomid. I didn't really notice much in that department besides hot flashes and even those weren't wretched. I am not trying to minimize the discomforts of hot flashes but the hot flashes I had on lupron were much, much worse. I then proceeded to dress and we met the nurse in the hallway. The time for the dreaded collection had come. We were asked by the nurse, "Do you collect together or alone"? We have reached new levels of humiliation. She really was quite courteous about it but the truth of the matter is it's just a very embarassing time.

The sample was collected and we waited in the waiting room for over an hour. Apparently when the sample is collected it is in a gelatenous state and needs time to liquify. So we waited, waited, and waited some more. When we were finally called back our nurse went over the analysis of the sperm which I shall not bore you with but I will say that the numbers were decent. They could have been a lot worse and could have been somewhat better. All in all they were all right. I got my feet up into the stirrups and focused on my breathing. The nurse got everything situated and it was done in a flash. All said and done it was not a horrible experience.

We went home, took a nap and went to part of church. I meant to ask the nurse if I could be on progesterone supplements since I have miscarried three times previously and the most recent I definately had issues with low progesterone. I waited until Monday before I called and she called in a RX for me without the hint of a fight. It was great.

Sunday night was mostly a time of rest and relaxation. I spoke to my favorite cousin who was planning on coming out for Paul's baptism the following week. She said that she was coming with her mother and sister. We invited them to stay with us which we were happy about but required a fair amount of work on our part. Our guest bedroom had gotten a little trashed which wouldn't have been super hard to clean up but also smelled like dog pee. Our very cute Dexter who has bladder control issues had used it as his personal toilet one too many times. It was more that febreze could handle. We decided that there was no way we could make them sleep in the pee room so we decided to do an overhaul in less than a weeks time. Starting on Monday we, ripped out the carpet, painted the walls, intalled laminate wood flooring and reassembled the room while mainaining our job and school responsibilites. We were very sleep deprived.

Pau's baptism was wonderful. We had our family over for dinner Saturday night and our company left Sunday morning. I am very pleased with how the room turned out. I painted two shaded of blue. Darker on the bottom and lighter on the top, with white deco moulding around the middle where the two shades meet up. It is a very soothing room.

The great thing about having a hectic week is that the first half of the 2ww went by very quickly. I have bloodwork scheduled for Monday 3/6. Time to hope that this week goes quickly also.