Weekend of appointments

Well .. this weekend we spent the entire weekend in Lubbock for EARLY morning appointments on Saturday and Sunday. Yes, a fertility clinic is open 7 days a week. The egglets don't care what day it is ... they just do their thing and we just go with it.

To start the weekend, we got to Lubbock Friday night for our appointment at the crack of dawn Saturday. We stayed in a Holiday Inn that had the WORST service we have EVER experienced. The lady at the front just set the tone for that stay and it didn't end well. So we went to our appointment and had my little (HUGE) egglets measured and they were all within range of being ready ... We went back to the room to await our phone call to see what the verdict was for going home OR staying another night. The phone call came with the news of another night and we would be back to the office on Sunday morning. By now I am REALLY feeling the fullness of HUGE ovaries and I am pretty uncomfortable. I am REALLY trying to not complain about it but sometimes I just can't help it. It really HURTS and is constantly uncomfortable. Mark takes it with a grain of salt and we move on.

We checked into a new Holiday Inn that was MUCH better. We had a nice dinner and went back to the room and chilled out. We got up and went to my appointment Sunday morning and I hear the "You are READY!!" .... WHat??? WAIT!! Ummm ...... CRAP!! All my little egglets have reached their needed size, some are over achievers and got REALLY big!! I have one that is 20 mm!! That is the one that seems to be causing me so much discomfort! So .. this is what is gonna happen.

I am NO LONGER taking all the shots!! WHOO HOO!! I am only taking the Lupron and the HcG tonight! That makes me SUPER happy!! Then tomorrow (Monday) I have to be back in Lubbock for an 11 am appointment and they will draw my levels and we will discuss Tuesday morning. I have to be at the office at 7 am .... UGH! Talk about EARLY!! I am thinking that we will stay the night in Lubbock again tomorrow night. 4 am is too early for us!! We will be going in for the retrival process... the start of the process of being pregnant. I am about to crap myself. This was such an easy and fast process!! I am kinda panicky now.

I am sent home with STRICT orders of a HIGH salt diet for the next month due to my estrogen levels being REALLY high (hyperstimulation) so I am on a NEW pill ($125.00) worth of a pill ... UGH ... for 8 days ... it helps with the hyperstimulation and apparently the high salt diet counteracts the situation inside so that I don't swell up like a whale. Kinda different than what you usually hear about high salt. But .. ok.

Tuesday the actual egglets with the little egg inside will come out ... I will be out of it so I won't be able to tell you how it happens. I get VERSED!! WHOO HOO! So ... We will have the retrival on Tuesday and five days later (which you start counting Tuesday as day zero) will be Easter Sunday. That is just the coolest. THEN .... According to the cool little wheel ... it sets us at 38 weeks on December 27 (Mark's birthday) and 40 weeks on January 10 (My birthday is the 9th) ... So ... I am voting for New Year's!! That would be super neat! Maybe this is a sign that this is just how things are supposed to be.

I have said that I am a little SCARED and that I am a little excited and HUGELY overwhelmed with all this ... BUT ... THe way Mark is so excited and the look on his face ALMOST makes the scared okay. He has been the most supportative and the most INCREDIBLE about all this. He tells me everyday that he appreciates and loves me more for the fact that I am doing this for him. I really can't think of a person that I would do this for more than him. I can't wait to marry this man and makes us a REAL LIVE famiy!!

The next update I will have will be when we know for sure that we are pregnant. I have a way that I want to tell everyone. And we aren't telling ANYONE until we have valid proof that the baby or babies are ok and that we will be able to sustain the pregnancy. My kids won't even know until then ... how do I go back and tell them that something went wrong?! Know what I mean??!

Until then folks ... I will have more blogs ... I am going to write one on what Mark and I have learned in this process. I want his side of the thoughts too!! Have a FANTASTIC Easter and if I may ask ... Please say prayers for a successful transfer and prayers for my nerves!!

LOVE!