Some more good news.
Today I had it all planned. I was going to take Max to the drop in center then go to the nearby doctor then come back and pick up Max on the way home. I thought this was a simple plan, but my plan got MUCH simpler. But before I go there I thought I would share an unusual experience I had…
I put Max down for a nap around 1 pm. I stayed down there not doing too much but watching TV. Fenway was asleep in his crete, in the living room (just behind where I stood for today’s photo). All of a sudden I hear a HUGE crash! Fearing that something major had happened up here, I race up the steps and glance at the kitchen to see the crockpot lid laying on the floor and about quart, maybe less, of liquid all over the floor. Clearly the crock pot exploded. No one was injured. No damage was done, just a big mess. I clean it up a bit and then go and text Tony to tell him what happened, thinking it was astounding. After finding out I was okay, then go back to cleaning up when I get a call on my cell phone. Assuming it is Tony I quickly answer it and find out it isn’t Tony, but it was…
My doctor who I am suppose to see today! He says that he saw I was on the schedule and wanted to remind me that he now has office hours up here. I tell him that is alright I need to drop off my son to a drop in center. The whole time I was a bit taken back by a doctor who calls his patients himself! He then goes on to tell me he has reviewed everything and says that he deals with women that have pelvic radiation. Shocked I ask him to repeat that. He says I have an 80-90% chance of success but that we will really be able to tell how much (if any) damage my uterus suffered if I can get a good lining with my RE. Ideally the RE will want a lining of about 10 mm and this doctor wants my lining of at least 8. They can tell how thick it is by ultrasound. So that will be my next big test. He tells me what prenatal I can take (I had asked about a more natural prenatal as I am sort of that way now) and he agrees to that. We then discuss that if my insurance that we have now needs me to deliver in New Jersey there are a few options available to me including a brand new hospital about 20 minutes away (it will open May 22) if I can get to a reasonable week. That would be amazing. He also said that I should transfer one embryo back, but if the quality wasn’t great he wouldn’t mind if I transferred 2 even though he knows I will not reduce.
He wants to see me at the conventional time after getting pregnant. My RE released me at 12 weeks with Max, so I imagine I am looking at another 12 to 16 week appointment with this Peri.
After all of that, he says I don’t need to come in unless I wanted to. So I decided to stay home seeing how Max was still asleep.
I am sort of shocked that he thinks that there is a very good chance that I may get a well baby out of this. I have been saying that all along that this is what will happen but to hear a doctor actually say it, and one as well respected as he is, it is a bit shocking!
Tomorrow I will see the RE (doctor with the embryos) and he will hopefully give me a schedule of what will happen in the coming weeks. My appointment tomorrow is an hour earlier then today’s was suppose to be so I imagine an update at about the same time as this tomorrow.