Okay, so here is the summary of the last year and a half of my life in an egg shell…
January 2007: Nadia and I pay our nervous first visit to our lovable RE, Dr. Feelgood. I have an ultrasound and he tells me I have fibroids. He orders some tests and we agree to start with the inseminations as soon as possible.
March 2007: My first round of IUI’s. This one is called a ‘natural cycle’ because I don’t use any fertility drugs, just a HCG trigger shot. I feel ovulation pain, but it doesn’t stick. I am still pretty hopeful. ‘Cause no one gets pregnant on their first try, right?
April 2007: Second natural cycle. Nothing happens but I’m okay with it. Nadia and I plan to get married next month.
May 2007: We have another natural cycle and run off to Canada to have a romantic wedding on the beach. I give up all alcohol and dream about an X birth.
June 2007: I turn into a bitch on clomid. Nothing noteworthy happens.
July 2007: I skip a cycle.
August 2007: I have an incredible IUI experience. After this cycle fails, Dr. Feelgood strongly recommends that I have the fibroids removed. I reluctantly schedule a surgery for October 2007. The waiting begins.
October 2007: Surgery=pain and pain medication. According to Feelgood, the surgery is successful.
November 2007: I join NaBoMo month to kill time while waiting to TTC. And torture all of my faithful readers. I am horrible at being forced to blog every day. I will never do that again.
December 2007: Merry Christmas! I have my first round of injectible IUIs after the surgery. It doesn’t take.
January 2008: Another back to back injectible cycle. This one is called the Tougher than Tina Cycle. I hate needles. Failed again.
February 2008: Skipped cycle. I am getting sick of this sh*t. The nervousness and trepidation is over and I am completely sick of waiting in my RE’s office to get wanded by this point. Yawn! Nadia and I discover that her insurance will pay for my IVF. I just have to wait until I get on her plan.
March 2008: IUI #7. I inject menopur into my stomach for 10 days straight only to discover that I have only one egg follicle. The cycle is canceled. I turn 38.
April 2008: Failed IUI #7. The next stop is IVF.
July 2008: I receive my new health insurance and I start a new job, switch my blog from blogger to wordpress and rename myself Eva. Nadia and I decide to wait until the fall to try IVF.
September 2008: Suffer through a brutal IVF cycle only to achieve a BFN.
October 2008: Spend the month wallowing in existential angst as I figure out what the hell to do next: another costly IVF? IUIs? turkey baster? or adoption?
Stay tuned.
