Trick or Treat FedEx Guy!

Today I got my goodie box delivered by FedEx. I set my alarm for 10:00 this morning so that I would be up and ready for the delivery. I only had to wait an hour and a half for FedEx to get here and I think I kinda scared the delivery guy too. I thought I heard a noise outside, so I got up to look and saw the truck out front. Before he could knock or anything, heck he was still about three feet from the porch, I opened the door. I had to resist the urge to say "Trick or treat", which was the funny idea that popped into my head right before he got here. lol My goodie box had three 600 unit Follistim cartridges, a huge bottle of Prometrium and my Ovidrel trigger. It's strange how happy I still get to get these packages. I guess I see it as hope that maybe this cycle will work and that we have another chance at reaching out goal. *crossing my fingers*

Stupid BFN

So Monday I had my Beta drawn and the results were supposed to be sent "stat" I made sure to point this out to the lab tech and then went on my way, anxiously waiting for a phone call. And I waited...and waited....and waited...and waited! Finally at 3:24 I called the RE's office. Three attempts and 15 minutes later I found out that they had only received ONE of the three levels they were supposed to get...and it wasn't even my beta!!! The lady said she had put in for the lab to do the rest of the tests, I guess they still had my blood?? After getting off the phone with them I called over to the lab (it's in the hospital where I work) I talked to someone about what the HELL was going on?! She said she was going to look into it and also called my RE's office. Later she called back and said the results would be ready in about two hours. Fabulous! My RE's office closed 30 minutes ago!!!!!! However I did get a phone call around 5ish from the lady I had talked to there who said that she would call me first thing in the morning with the results. So now I'm back to waiting......finally couldn't take it anymore at 10:30 and called! The RE's office was short some people so that was why I hadn't heard anything (completely understandable) and someone would call me back. Got the call shortly after, and the results...BFN! Got my instructions to stop my progesterone supp.s and wait for AF to show up so that we can start IUI cycle #3. So now it's time to do some more waiting......

Rainy Saturday

I've been on Prometrium supp.s since the day after the second IUI and let me tell you...I am EXAUSTED! All week I have been looking forward to today so that I could just sleep in and recharge my batteries. Well I successfully completed that goal today by not getting up until amost 11:30. It was so nice not to have to be up early or have anywhere to be. The down side to getting up that late is that we have no motivation to really do anything. We had talked about maybe trying to get more painting done, but that didn't happen. Now I'm wondering when we are going to get ready and head out to dinner because I'm starting to get hungery. Tomorrow is my get together with a groupd of girls from the message board I'm on and I'm pretty excited about it. It was a lot of fun last time, and I know it will be again. Still trying to not think about my beta on Monday but, with it getting closer it's getting harder to push to the back of my mind.

Work Is Hell!

We have a new boss and of course people are acting really stupid. All the slackers are now trying to kiss major ass and act like they have always been the best employee ever. Even my co-worker is trying to act like he has always been the boss in the office, when the fact is, he has been enjoying the extra cash and not fulfilling any of the duites of the title. Hell at this point I manage it more than he does! It's so aggrivating!! Plus the stress is so not what I need right now...damn it! lol I'm less than four days from my beta test. Oddly enough I've managed to not think about it too much...well maybe just not as much as last time. I think it's because last time was the first time and it was all so exciting. I have had to catch myself and try not too get too over opptimistic. I hate that I can't even be excited about what might be happening. If I let myself get too hopeful and it's negative, that just leads to an even bigger crash back to reality. I am very much looking forward to a night out tomorrow with my Friday night dates, we haven't seen each other in weeks! I just hope that I don't poop out early, damn suppliments have me so wiped out.

2dpB2Biui

It's been two days since we had our back to back IUIs and I'm really trying not to think about how long it is until I have my bloodwork drawn. I went in for monitoring on Saturday 10-10 after being on Follistim at 50ius for two days. I was worried about the fact that the previous u/s showed too many follies growing. However, this one showed a nice 16mm follie on the left and a big, healthy 23mm on the right!! The nurse gave me my Ovidrell trigger right there in the office, it hurt a bit more then when I gave myself the shot last time. After that I got my instructions for my IUIs for the next two days. Hubby was not very pleased that he would have to be getting up at the buttcrack of dawn for two days, but he was still excited. So Sunday it was off to Norwalk, CT at o' dark-thirty, aka 6:15 am. We made it to the office around 7:45, and after hubby did his thing, we hung out waiting for the procedure. We even took some time to ponder the origins of the "materials" in the rooms for the guys and had a few good laughs. Around 9:15 they called us back into the room, then after a little lamp issue (the one in the room didn't work and they had to find another...it lead to jokes about usuing cellphones as flashlights..too funny!) it was all done. We went out to dinner that night with our friends who were celebrating their first anniversary and also to celebrate our anniversary which was the next day. Monday morning arrived bright and early, and it was off to Danbury this time for a 7:45 appointment. We had the procedure done around 9:15 (it was the magic time for this cycle lol). It was hard trying not to read too much into the fact that we were having our IUI done on our anniversary, but maybe it will be better luck than having it done on 9-9-09 was. The rest of our 6th anniversary was spent climbing in and around WWII planes, which was totally kick ass! Then we went to dinner at our usual anniversary spot, Red Lobster (I had a 1/2 pound of snow crab legs with coconut shirmp..yummmm!!). Right now we are on vacay and have been working on painting the bathroom and hallway, tomorrow we will hopefully go pick up the paint and start putting it on the walls.

Good News/Bad News

Today I went for another u/s and b/w to see how my body was responding to my injections. The good news is that I have some follies growing and I'm excited to know that the medicine is working so quickly. However, the bad news is that there are too many growing. My RE said in the begining that if there were any more than three that grew he would have to cancel the cycle. The RE I saw today decided to dial back my dose, from 150 units to 50, to see if that would cause some of the follies to drop off. I'm guessing that with less medication to absorb only the biggest ones will continue growing..maybe? I really have no idea how this works, but I just hope it does. I'll find out Saturday if we've made any progress one way or the other. *crossing my fingers*

Another Busy Day

After cleaning half the living room yesterday, hubby felt it necessary to do the other half today. I managed to stay out of it for a while but, then I got sucked in. It all gets so overwhelming when you see all this stuff lying around that you know you want to keep, but that you have no idea where you are going to put it. So while the room looks good for the most part, there is still stuff piled on the couch and on the floor next to me. But at least it's a start. Gotta head to bed kinda early, or at least try to, since it's off to the RE's in the am. It's so hard to get up at 5am and be on the road by 6, but I know it's all worth it. Plus I think of this kind of like training, some day I'll be getting up at 5 and 6am to take care of my baby. I am very much looking forward to that day. :)

Good Start To The Weekend

Today started out kinda blah and lazy. Hubby had mentioned back when we got my bookshelf that it would be neat to make a reading corner next to it. I was game but figured, like most of his ideas, it would never happen. Well today he says, "Hey, want to move your glider into your reading corner?" My first response was, "um..I guess so" because let's face it, after sitting around in my pj's on a cloudy Saturday...who really wants to do anything?? lol But after some very yummy coffee I had the energy to help out. We spent about 4 hours cleaning: the floor, the glider, the end table, everything! Now I have my little nook, needs a lamp, but otherwise it is complete. We are going to be heading out to get dinner, burgers..yay!, so I have to take my injection. I've been on Follistim since Thursday at 150 IUs, which is 25 units less than what I was at when my follies grew last cycle. I go in on Monday for u/s and b/w to check progress. Also they are going to check on some cysts the RE saw, he said it's not unusual to have them and they are left over from when the follicle ruptured to release the eggs. So hopefully they are gone or going away, and that they don't cause any problems. Well, hubby is outta the shower, off to get some chow!