Marc and I had basically decided to put a hold on fostering even on a temporary basis while we're doing this IVF thang, but I got an appeal from a friend who is going on vacation, who wondered if we might be able to vacation sit her three six-week old kittens for ten days. Since I'm basically able to resume normal activity now, I agreed to do it.
Marc and I watched the summer show "Wipeout" (which I guess is in its second season, but I never knew there was a first) last night. Talk about a silly, brainless show, but hilarious nonetheless.
Well, I've managed to disembark from the self-pity train for at least a day today. Mostly I think I needed to vent yesterday. Helps to read blogs like a little pregnant too. I found it a while ago, and it's great. The woman who writes it has two kids now, but she chronicled her entire IUI/IVF ordeal over the years, and it's amazing what she had to go through. The writing is funny as hell too.
Well, we got some more bad news on Sunday, as we found out that we have no embryos to freeze. The lab was supposed to re-biopsy the two that remained, but one of them had stopped developing by the next day, and the other - this is where I start banging my head on the desk - got biopsied, but the embryologist contaminated the embryo.
Today was transfer day! I'm sitting at home now, resting and letting Marc wait on me hand and foot.
So Marc and I were bored out of our skulls last night, thanks to there being absolutely nothing on TV. This is what our lives have come to! I've started reading "The Stand" by Stephen King, so that might have to be my entertainment substitute. I need to read more anyways.
Got a call from my nurse today to let me know that all 13 of the embryos got biopsied today, which is good news, because it means all 13 grew enough to be biopsiable (is that a word?). The cells from each one will be overnighted to the lab, and we should have results from the testing either tomorrow evening or Saturday morning. Fingers crossed that all of the 13 make it to day 5, and that we have a good number of unaffected ones.
I am so sore today. Yesterday, my left side hurt. Today, both sides hurt. I am actually, embarrassingly enough, sitting on a heating pad in my office. I took some Tylenol earlier (not allowed to take ibuprofen), which has helped a little, but hasn't done much to improve my mobility beyond that of an 80-year-old woman.
My doctor called this morning, but I had literally walked away from my cell phone for 5 minutes when she did. Grr. So I didn't hear from her again until just now. We have 13 fertilized eggs! That's pretty much what they told us to expect, so I'm happy.
I'm home, and all went well this morning! We got to the clinic at 7:15am, and they got me set up with a gown and IV and all that goodness. The anesthetic they put me on was a light IV sedation, and not a full general, although it all seemed the same to me. I woke up as they were rolling me out of the operating room, they asked me a couple of questions, and then told me I could go back to sleep, which I was grateful for as I was pretty tired.
I had yet another appointment Saturday morning at the clinic. My right arm was starting to look pretty jacked up from all the blood draws, so I had them try to draw from my left, which as I may have mentioned before, is a total pain, because the veins in that arm are nigh-impossible to find. The phlebotomist did actually manage to hit it on the first try (unlike the previous time), but it inexplicably stopped giving up blood after only a couple mLs. She tried moving the needle around a bunch, but no joy. They finally decided that they had enough to run the tests they needed, and I could be spared further pain/annoyance.
To update my earlier post below: I just got a call from my doctor, and she wants to do the retrieval on Monday after all. Looks like they want to give those other, smaller follicles a chance to catch up. No stims tonight though, thankfully, so it's one less shot I have to take.
Well, it sounds like my egg retrieval, originally scheduled for Monday, may be moved up a day to Sunday. I went in yesterday morning for my usual sono/bloodwork appointment as well as a pre-op appointment with one of the doctors. She told me that based on how my follicles were looking (a number of them were mature), that they would likely move it up a day.
If you've never watched "Lost," go rent seasons 1-4 on DVD - season 5 should be out at the end of the year - and by the time the final, sixth season rolls around in 8 friggin' months, you should be all caught up. This is such an amazing show (even if it kills me in a thousand different ways) that's better than anything else on TV right now. As for the finale...
One of my friends posted this article on Facebook entitled, "Caring for Your Introvert", which I thought was pretty interesting.
Ugh. Didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night as I inexplicably woke up at 3 am and couldn't fall back asleep, which almost never happens to me. I lay in bed until 3:30 before I gave up and hopped on the computer in the office to either wake myself up entirely, or tire myself back to sleep. I hadn't been sitting there for more than two minutes before Stubby came and made himself comfortable in my lap.
Had a nice weekend! I had a bit of a hectic day at work on Friday (of course), but still managed to get out of the lab at a reasonable time. Marc and I had Chipotle for dinner, and my brothers and my cousin Henry came up to join us to go see Star Trek.
My inner geek is excited today: the new Star Trek movie is out! I was a pretty big Trekker back in the day, although it was mostly "The Next Generation" that I loved. Never watched the original series or any of the subsequent spin-offs, but I did watch most of the movies, including the ones that had the original series cast.
I'll save the "Lost" thoughts for the end, here. Didn't get a chance to blog yesterday as I was out all morning volunteering. Every year our company has an "Environmental Day" where employees can volunteer to help with various local projects. I always mean to do it, but never do, so finally this year I did.
Had a nice, busy weekend, which was followed up by a tedious day at work yesterday that just about melted my brain. But hey, inow t's Tuesday, which means we're that much closer to Friday again.
It's pretty wet and dreary outside right now. Perfect start to the weekend! Rain is good though, and I actually enjoy rainy weather (I'd probably enjoy living in Seattle, if it weren't so freakin' cold).
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