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Faith enjoying a scratchy roll

This morning we found out that our friends Sean and Jules and their baby won't be coming to see us after all. So bummed out!! They are flight attendants, and spent 12 hours in the airport with a 2 month old yesterday, trying to get on a flight from Miami to CA. Everything was overbooked, and paying passengers were getting bumped from one flight to the next... making their situation even more difficult. In the end they had to call it and go home, with no trip west. Boo :(


But since our schedule was already wonky and too tight, we regrouped and figured it would be ok and might take a little pressure off us even though we were so looking forward to seeing them. (and I was supposed to get some baby mojo from them! ;-)) We went in to see Dr. Sunshine again this morning, and walah --- my 16 turned into a 23 overnight! The other egg was not far behind... we trigger tonite! The egg retrieval is on Thursday morning, which the office confirmed is their first one of 2012! We decided that was good luck.


Drove back south to get to work on our totally blown up trimming schedule (I have NO IDEA what women with regular jobs do when they are doing IVF. obviously their bosses need to be in the know and super understanding?). Then I got a call from the nurse that my E2 (estrogen) had dropped. Ughhhhhhhhhhh. My heart just sank. This is what happened last cycle... She said the doctor had called for a re-test and I should call him to discuss the situation. Last time that meant we were partially cancelled. I called him and he said he wasn't sure what was going on, why it was happening, but would call me with the results of the bloodwork in a couple hours. Luckily, in some ways, I was at a client's and was able to focus on her horse's royally screwed up feet rather than obsessing over my situation.


When he called back he said that although it is not typical, he thinks the smaller and receeding follicles have stopped making estrogen and that is why the E2 number went down. It was still around 350 which is about right for the 2 larger follies... Strangely this info made me feel better, because it at least makes sense to me. The shock of hearing it went down when it should be going up was really hard to wrap my mind around! He also said that under different circumstances, he would cancel the cycle altogether (not even go to ER). But considering my past cycle, my 2 frozen embryos, my lack of tubes, my age, the $$ spent already, the 60 shots I've already done, my good lining and finally the fact that my progesterone has not started going up yet... that we would go ahead and retrieve the 2 eggs and hope for the best. PHEW!!!


Tonite I take my last shots of Follistim and microdose HCG, and the trigger shot in about an hour. Tomorrow I am shot-free for a day, and then I go in on Thursday morning for my retrieval. The transfer will be either Sunday or Tuesday...


Here's goes somethin'!