Well in the last week I have went from frustrated to angry to defeated to accepted to confused and now I just don’t care. Ha ha!
I went to my RE yesterday for a consult. Tony didn’t really understand the purpose of the consult but I told him that we should discuss what will happen to the embryos should I not be able to get them all in 5 years and would I have to go through another monitoring cycle if I get pushed back more.
Max was at the pastor’s house being watched by the pastor’s wife. He loves to play with their daughter.
I go in there not expecting too much. Well they call me in the back for blood pressure and weight. I am a bit shocked because I feel like I will not be cycling for a while. However I am able to pin down the nurse and this is what they do for all consults. So I figure it is a formality.
Then Tony and I meet with the doctor. He goes over the blood work. EVERYTHING is fine. He ordered an infectious panel on me and it is normal! My white blood cell count is normal! All the other blood work he ordered on me is normal. To which I think says something about whatever is happening to me. Clearly it isn’t something THAT bad. He then talks about my monitoring cycle. Everything is normal there too. Uterus is the right size and shape (although not in the right spot because of the large lymph nodes), ovaries are the right size and shape. Though my ovaries did take a while to ovulate. This could be caused by it being my second cycle since I weaned Max.
To my shock, he says that I look good to cycle in January! In fact he says this several times in the meeting. Finally I say to him that I would be shocked if I cycle in January. His reply “Well then I guess we will have to treat you for shock then as well!”
He tells me that I need to call him after the appointment tomorrow with the oncologist. He wants to know what she says. Assuming she doesn’t think it is anything I really need to worry about now and clears me, I will call back my RE and tell him this. He will then prescribe for me Glucophage. I am still insulin resistant and this will help with that. I beg him to put me back on Avandia because I know Glucophage can make you nauseous. However he doesn’t work with Avandia anymore (if you see lawyer adds on TV you will see why). He says that he will put me on the time released version.
Then when I get my next cycle (my guess is around Christmas… slightly before) then I will have a hysteroscopy, then a mock transfer later (around the first of the year). Then after I ovulate I will be given Lupron and I will be on it for about a month. 2 weeks into it I will get a period. At that point I will be given estrogen in higher and higher quantities till I get around the same time as the age of my embryos. I will stop lupron and start progesterone and then have the transfer. 2 weeks later I will have my first beta and hopefully I will be pregnant. At 9 weeks I will start to be weaned from the estrogen and progesterone.
If I were guessing right now assuming all goes to this plan, I will be due probably around my birthday which would put the birth slightly after Max’s birthday (Max was due October 10, my birthday is October 22). However this is a BIG if right now if this works this way or not. I still wouldn’t know if I could make it to my step brother’s wedding either (October 23, 2010).
Now to Max:
This was October 16, 2009
This was November 6th (Max dancing).
November 12 (Max reading)
Today (Max walking around)
Jennifer