You know how when you are trying to complete a project it always seems to take longer than you anticipated?? IVF can easily be added to that for me. When we made the decision to do IVF last December, I never expected our first go at this would take 5 months… But we are finally getting somewhere!! We are still crawling the whole way but getting there none the less!
I have recovered from my 4th surgery just fine and had a fantastic post op check up. My doctor was so so SO happy with how everything looked after the surgery which made me feel awesome. So now that we have all the surgery nonsense out of the way and my uterus is “baby ready” (as my doctor called it), what are we doing now?? At my post op appointment, my doctor told me he didn’t want to wait for my next cycle to start naturally so they were going to give me meds to help with that. The next words out of my mouth were Yes!! GREAT! Perfect! (in that order haha)
I told him we were on the same page and to load me up! Bring on the drugs!! They called them in to the pharmacy before I left the office and I started taking them that day. I wish I could say Righley was supporting me but in reality, that look means “stop taking pictures and throw my rope thanks.” Okay.. I have taken these before and in the past, it only took a couple of days for my body to kick into gear and do what its supposed to. So naturally, after the first day of pills, I expected to start in a day or two.. so I waited..
..and waited..
..and waited….
..and 5 days of pills go by and I still haven’t started.. BOO! I am highly annoyed at this point and since it feels like the world is waiting on my lady time, I start calling my doctors office like a crazy person. “What do I do? Did I do something wrong? Did y’all give me defective pills?!?!?” Yes… that’s the ramblings of a crazy person to some unfortunate girl who answered the phone at the doctors office. 😳 As the days passed, my anxiety increased until finally (and in the middle of the night of course) Aunt Flo decided to show up and it might have been the first time in the history of EVER that I was excited about this happening. Cramping and hormones and headaches.. Hooray!! There I go again with all the crazy talk.. 🤪 The most important part is now we are full steam ahead for transfer!!!! They sent me a calendar so I can keep all my meds and appointments straight while we prep for a transfer day of May 15th!!! That’s the day before Cliffs bday and we couldn’t be happier! 😄 We have waited 2 1/2 years for this..
The same day I got our calendar from my doctor, I got a call that all my meds could be picked up from a specialty pharmacy in Austin. Since I was so super happy because things are finally happening, I decide to go ahead and go get my meds even though its about an hour away from my house. This is where the day took an unexpected turn.. On my way home from picking them up, I got rear ended on I-35 (1000% not my fault btw) 😠 At the time it happened I was shaken up because they were towing my poor car away and I knew I was headed into the joys of insurance claims and rental cars. But to be completely honest, I think if I would have not received such awesome news about our transfer date earlier in the day, I would have been a lot more upset about what happened. My car is all kinds of banged up but I am okay and that’s what really matters. I kind of surprised myself that I didn’t just lose it and have a cry fest on the side of the highway! Dropping my keys at my front door makes me sob uncontrollably but a wreck on the highway is apparently no big deal.. girl hormones make no sense.. at all haha
Here’s a pic of my poor Escapé (side note.. my cars name is pronounced es-scap-ey like Dory says in Finding Nemo)
But enough about that.. and more about all the happy things! Transfer day!! WOOT! So I had to start taking Femara on day 3 of my cycle and since I have become a one woman pharmacy over the past 2.5 years, I of course have experience with this one too. The funny side effect for me with Femara is that it gives me crazy hot flashes!! For 5 days I embrace my inner penguin and turn our house into an igloo. Cliff came home from work on day 3 of my ride on the hot flash express and he is a trooper and just bundles up to keep warm.. but not before making fun of me of course! As the husband, I guess he’s allowed to do that especially since usually I’m the one complaining that its too cold! My next doctor appointment is the 8th for one last ultrasound before transfer day.. this is happening people!! Get excited!! You know I am!!!!! ♥
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