The Egg Drop Post

Yesterday, in honor of Labor Day Nadia and I got up early to start the wanding aka frequent vjajay ultrasounds at the doctor’s office. I saw Dr. Feelgood and he seemed happy to see me. The nurses also greeted me with their warm smiles and I really have mixed feelings about that. After a year and I half, I have  good relationship with my RE and his staff. Ho hum.

Anyway, Dr. Feelgood discovered that I had a small cyst on my left ovary and told me that the blood work would let us know if my estrogen level was too high to proceed. I was so dejected when I heard that and I wanted to burst into tears but he told me that blood work would determine whether or not we could proceed.I spent the afternoon on pins and needles waiting for a call and, fortunately, it turned out that everything was fine. 

I got my first shot of Gonal-F in the gut this morning at 7am. Tonight I do 3 vials of menopur, also in the gut. As I try not to look at Nadia’s hand as the needle puncture my stomach, I’m glad for the padding around my middle. It’s a good thing I never lost any of the 15lbs my OB wanted me to lose.

Nadia keeps asking me if I feel excited and the answer is ‘no’. I feel scared. If this doesn’t work, I will be very upset but I am trying to be positive and stress free, though it is a little difficult with pounding heatache.  I think this cycle will require a lot of hard wok and effort on my part. Work to get up and get to the RE by 7AM as well as work to keep myself motivated and on track with my diet with lots of green leafy vegetable, vitamins, daily walks and flax seed.

And so in the tradition of previous cycles before me, I hereby christen this cycle “the Rosie the Riveter Cycle” for all of the women out there like who are laboring hard to conceive, or to create families in whatever way they so choose, to all of them, I say ‘ladies, we can do it!’