His Timing

I'm finally able to upload pictures again. There are two pictures of the sharps container and two pictures of my bruising. The pictures of the bruising are kind of dark, but I think you can still see them. The bright red area in the lower of the two bruise pictures is where I have just given myself a shot. And in the top bruise picture, there is a dark red spot in the bottom right hand corner, that is part of a scar from my first fertility surgery.

So Sunday was an exciting day. Happy Mother's Day to me! I had my first Baseline Scan & Labs for the May IVF cycle done. It was just me and the doctor in the waiting room when I got there so I was able to get some questions answered before he drew my blood and then took me back to get my scan done. I asked if I would have to have another mock transfer done since the one I had was before surgery #2, and he decided that it wasn't necessary. He then gave me the updated stats for 2010. The clinic hasn't had a negative pregnancy test from IVF since February, and they are 30 for 33! After the blood draw, I had the vaginal ultrasound. The right ovary "looks great and the follicle count is astronomical." The final count for the right ovary was 23. The left ovary "is huge" (measured almost twice as big as the right ovary), but otherwise looked good. The cyst was no where to be found. Yay! And the follicle count on the left side was 25. Yep, 48 follicles total!!!! I guess now we know for sure that production wasn't the problem all along, it was transportation. The doctor told me they would run my lab work on Monday and as long as the hormone levels looked good, we were ready to start the IVF cycle on the 17th! I talked to the nurse Monday afternoon and the blood work looked good. So I was scheduled for another Baseline Scan & Labs on Tuesday, May 18th at 7:30am. As long as everything still looks good, the 18th will be treatment day one, which means I will start the stimulation (Follistim) injection on the 18th and Gus will start taking his antibiotic on the 18th as well.

I'm having a hard time containing my excitement now. Although I do feel pretty nervous about the whole thing as well, there are still so many hurdles to jump between now and holding our baby (babies). But we are making progress and that is what I have wanted for so long now. I was just looking at my calendar, and I just sent Gus a text message, but it is really funny how things are working out. When I was at the doctor in December, before I had to have surgery number 2, the doctor told us he wanted me on Lupron shots for 60 days before starting an IVF cycle to help suppress the endometriosis. After the second surgery, with the fibroid rearing its ugly head, he changed his mind and decided we should just do this as quickly as possible. Well, I think God really wanted him to stick to his original plan, because guess what? Monday, May 17th will be shot number 60 for me of Lupron. Explain to me how I just happen to have my Baseline Scan and Labs the morning after my 60th Lupron shot. As much as I have complained about having to wait and threw fits over this for the last four years, God is finally giving me a glimpse of what it means to trust in His timing.

Injection tally is at 53 and counting!