Category: Infertility


…. I think. :/

We went in for the ultrasound this morning. I had finally gotten everything figured out and the hospital had gotten all of the paperwork and I was scheduled for the right test. It was all good.

I had two women do my ultrasound. One of them was a student at the medical college and the other was her teacher. The student did a lot of the pictures and got some things figured out, but the teacher had to actually do the measurements of the follicles. Normally, I don’t mind when there is a student learning in the room since I know the best way to learn something is to do it. What bothered me was that they kept whispering things to each other and turned the screen away from me and D so that neither of us could see what was going on. We had to keep asking questions. They just kept saying everything looked good. No real definite numbers or anything.

After they finished, we went out for paperwork, and I asked them what the numbers were and the teacher said they had to wait for the radiologist to come in and look at the sheets. I made sure they had the correct number for the RE and stressed that he needed to know by this afternoon. So here I sit waiting on pins and needles for the RE to call and let me know what I am suppose to do. I hate waiting and not knowing.

So until I get a confirmation from the RE, I have no idea if the Clomid worked just right, or if it overworked and I have a canceled cycle.

Pins and needles I tell you… Pins and needles.

Incompetency!

UGGG! We are currently in Day 5 of our cycle and things have been looking good so far. We went to my OB for our first ultrasound of the cycle. We went to the OB instead of driving the 2.5 hours to Ft. Worth for a 30 minute appointment 🙂 Wanted to save a little bit of gas and it made it easier for both of us to be there and not take too much time off work.

They have put me on 100 mg of Clomid, so I have to take that till CD7 and then I go in for another ultrasound on CD9 to see how the little follies are doing (hoping for no more than 4). Unfortunately, my OB will be out of town on Friday, so his office assistant made an appointment at the local hospital for the ultrasound. Now this wouldn’t be so bad seen as the hospital is in the same complex as the OB and they work together a lot, but that’s where the problem starts. The office assistant gets me an appointment so I call the RE with the news and the time so they know when to expect the results so they can figure the meds/plan for next week. RE calls me back and tells me I need to make sure that the hospital has the forms that they sent to the OB. No problem.

WRONG! I called the OB again and was told that they could send the forms if they needed it, but they don’t usually do that. I stressed that I needed the forms sent over because the RE needed the results that day so they could order meds. OB assistant proceeds to tell me that the hospital won’t have the results by that day. They won’t have the results until Monday at the earliest. This is completely bogus since I just did an ultrasound on Friday and I know that in the length of time it took me to put my clothes back on after the ultrasound, they had already finished faxing the forms and results to the RE. This leads me to believe (along with a couple other things) that the assistant has me scheduled for the wrong type of ultrasound on Friday.

Not the type of thing I need to be dealing with right now since I am trying to keep my stress level down. I am going to call over to the hospital tomorrow and make sure that they have me down for the correct type of ultrasound, make sure they have the forms from the RE and then before I show up there on Friday, I am going to the OB and getting a copy of the forms from them.

If we have to do this again, maybe I will just start at the hospital and not have to worry about the doctor not being there. Or maybe, we will just suck it up and do the 2.5 hour drive to Ft. Worth for the appointments there and not even have to worry about doing things long distance. I think we can probably manage to make one trip a week to get these tests done.

Grrrr. Just needed to vent to let off some stress. 🙂

Multiple trips to the doctors, I am ready!

Here’s hoping for first time’s a charm!

One Week!

I’m excited and a little nervous all at the same time. We have one week until we start our first cycle of IUI. We are hoping for a “beginner’s luck” experience. It is very unlikely for it to work first time around as the doctor and I don’t know how I will react to the medications. This has been such a crazy year with our emotions going up and down with everything that has happened. We are ready for it to just be over (not that it will ever “just be over”), but we are ready to start our family. We are truly happy for everyone who has just gotten or waiting for their new arrival, but it’s hard for us as we have been waiting for almost 2 years for ours. I know it’s no where near as long as some have waited, but for us, it has been a really trying time.

We did just celebrate our two year anniversary and we spent a relaxing day at home doing nothing. It was nice to just sit around and not have to work or do anything. Hopefully that won’t be the case next year 😛

Woohoo!

We got a call on Tuesday saying that the donor we wanted had a couple vials available and since we were on the waiting list, we had first pick. We are so excited since we didn’t really want to have to go with our backup donor.

So yesterday, we purchased the two vials and left ourselves on the waiting list so we can order more if they become available. So, after spending $1285, we have two vials heading to our doctors office as I write! They should arrive at the office by Friday 5pm. Then we wait until June 10.

So excited and yet slightly nervous at the same time. Hoping for good news on the first go around.

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