"Wow, you're growing quite the team there!"

(That's not really something you want to hear from the nurse when you're planning on an IUI, you know?)

Today's report:

After 4 days of injects:
Ultrasound report:
Right ovary:  two ~10 mm follies with several (5 or 6) smaller looking ones in the background
Left ovary:  "a team" of  maybe 8 mm-ish follies -- I'm not sure how many there were, it looked like a dozen? 
Lining:  she didn't give me a number, but it was thicker than it was on Monday

E2:  152  (I think this is "good."  It wasn't too high, at least.  Any thoughts from you injectables veterans?)

The plan:
Continue 100 IU Follistim daily through Sunday, "have relations" (the nurse's words, not mine) Sunday night then abstain, re-scan Monday morning.

The ultrasound nurse seemed sure that my E2 level was going to be high and Dr. Smiles was going to cut the dosage, but it looks like the team of small guys is just moving along slowly.  Hopefully just a few of them will move ahead by Monday.  I'd really rather not grow a team, thank you!!

(Seriously, I can't stop thinking about what kind of team of  we're going for here by trigger time -- Beach volleyball?  Maybe too few.  Basketball?  Not bad.  Baseball?  Football?  BAD.)

I have my u/s appointment timed out to the point that if anything goes wrong on Monday I'm screwed.  Monday is the only day of the week that I am essentially booked from 8:00 am until 6 pm.  To miss nothing and get a scan before 2 pm, I'd have to get there at 6 am (and leave my house at 4:30 am).  Of course, they don't open until 6:30 so that doesn't quite work  (Not to mention that it isn't even vaguely appealing and I'm not even sure if it's possible.)   I can, however, get there at 11 (leaving directly after my first class of the day is over) if I cancel my tutoring hours and skip my department meeting.  Then, as long as I can leave by 11:45 (which should work if nothing goes wrong), then I can be back on campus by 1:15 in time for my 1:30 lab. 

That doesn't sound stressful at all, does it? 

Let's just hope that everything goes smoothly and I don't have to call my department secretary while going 90 miles per hour on the highway to put a sign on my lab door saying "Dr. Rebecca is a little busy trying to get knocked up right now.  If you could all be patient, she'd really appreciate it.  'K? Thanks."

(Normally I'd beg a colleague to take the lab for me but the only two who could are at a conference next week...you know, the one I decided to skip (partially) so I wouldn't have to skip this cycle?)

The nurse tried to make me change the appointment to 10 am or 1 pm when she called with my E2 report because of some sort of inspection going on there on Monday.  I went into a panic trying to explain the careful timing that had gone into this.  My DH keeps reminding me that if I have to cancel a class, I just do.  But, I'd really rather save those times for when it absolutely has to happen (like when we actually do the IUI) rather than when it is possible to keep it from happening.  (Again, if my colleagues were in town this week, then I could have begged a favor (and hated it).)  I felt like such a difficult patient begging her not to make me change the time. 

(Have you gotten the idea that I hate to be a "bother" to people?  I stress the hell out when I feel like I've been annoying to someone or have put them out.)

Things are good otherwise.  It's the last day of spring break.  (Sad.)  It's a gorgeous day, though.  (Happy.)  I have TONS I still need to accomplish this weekend.  (Panicked!)  I've been doing the C+B IUI/IVF meditations every night.  (Ahhhhh.....so calm)

I'm feeling quite babbly at the moment.  I'm not sure why.  I think I'm just avoiding getting back to writing the lab exercise and new course proposal I was working on.  Ooh, or the grading.  And don't get me started on the state of my house...  (Eep, back to panicked!)

OK, got to get back to calm.  Here's my new mantra:

Slow but steady, just a few are ready.
Slow but steady, just a few are ready.