Our friends are delaying their trip for a few weeks!! Woohoo!! When my DH was talking to them last night about it, they were worried that they would offend us by putting it off. Ha! He said to them "well, we would have welcomed you to come this week but I know that Rebecca will say 'thank G-d!' when I go tell her you're coming in three weeks instead!" Much better timing then!!
So, that's a major thing off my head. I can focus on grading in the evenings in my messy house for the rest of the week and then clean casually this weekend -- the first weekend since August that I'm not out of town and/or working on a deadline. (Yeah, the one two weeks ago where my DH was gallivanting with friends and I was stuck in the hotel room writing all day was a lot of fun...)
Woohoo!
Now for the IVF update...
(I still find it hard to believe I'm writing that. I think all these distractions have definitely been good in keeping my mind off of the "big picture.")
Yesterday's check-up went well. The other follies seem to be catching up on both sides. There were still around 6 or so on each ovary that looked good. She didn't take an exact count, but the nurse seemed really happy with them. Several were right around 10 mm or so. The "bigger" one from before is about 13 mm, now. I have no idea how to predict where we'll actually be in the next few days but everything seems to be growing evenly and that seems good. My lining went from 5.6 on Monday to 7.3-ish yesterday (which made me very happy since that has been an issue in the past). E2 was 667 and the RE was happy with that. Two more days of 225 IU Follistim with Ganirelix thrown in last night for good measure (although not tonight which I thought was odd.)
Another scan/E2 tomorrow afternoon. The nurse is predicting retrieval Monday or Tuesday of next week! It feels like this has gone by so quickly. I guess just doing a short stim and no Lupron cycle makes the inject time pretty fast.
Oh, and lady pumpkin, yes it's C+B that I use for meditation. Love it. Although, lately I've had to make myself do it earlier in the day because I find that if I start at night I fall asleep before I make it to Level B relaxation!! The other day, I woke in the middle to hear her saying "Listen to your instincts. Maybe they're telling you that you need to get more sleep." I started laughing.
To anyone out there that celebrates Rosh Hashanah, L'shana Tova U'metuka!
I think I'll go dip an apple in honey and think about having an incredibly happy and sweet new year. This is the perfect time for an IVF cycle, I think.
GOOOO Ovaries! Nice job lady! And enjoy your lazy weekend at home. I say don't clean, just laze. That's an order, missy.
ReplyDeleteRock on, ovaries! I can't believe retrieval is on Monday or Tuesday. Wow!
ReplyDeleteHappy the scheduling worked out with your friends. A visit in three weeks sounds perfect!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a great number of eggs brewing and growing all together is a fantastic thing. I looked back at my notes and once my follicles were in the 8-12 mm range it was 4 days until trigger & 6 until retrieval. I think you can plan on follies growing 1-2mm a day at this point. I know the stim phase seems to go by in the blink of an eye!
Somehow I missed your last post, I am glad you will catch a break this coming weekend. Take care of yourself!! I am so excited everything is moving right along :) Retrieval will be here before you know it, wow!
ReplyDeleteEverything is coming together!!! The fact that your follicles are all growing together is fantastic. I can't believe you're so close to retrieval!!
ReplyDeleteC+B puts me to sleep too. Once, I started on CD3 and woke up around CD12. Oops.
ps - my word verification was "jizzy". Foreshadowing perhaps?
So glad to hear your company has postponed their trip! What a relief! So glad to hear your IVF cycle is going well - I love your attitude!!!
ReplyDeleteGood luck!!
ReplyDeleteit IS the perfect time for an IVF cycle; i agree!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear the IVF cycle is going so well!
ReplyDeleteI think I might go dip an apple in something just because you suggested it...
Such a great start to a new year :) Wonderful news about your cycle and sending you lots of love in the lead up to your retrieval... great that it's all going so well :)) Love C&B too xoxo
ReplyDeleteI do hope your new year is full of sweetness, starting right now. Best of luck to you!
ReplyDeleteSo happy to hear your friends are putting off their trip! So exciting that retrieval is coming up so fast! I always responded quickly to stims for my IUIs too, my last IUI was on CD 10 I think. Fortunately I only had to inject a fraction of what you did though (super sensitive of me to mention that I know...).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm sending every ounce of luck I have your way for an easy retrieval of lots of healthy follies that all fertilize and grow and implant and become your beautiful take home baby (babies). Whew, that's a lot of luck to send - glad you're not too far away so it should all make it in time! Love to you and your follies!