At around 5:30 am I was still in bed, but had a scratchy tickle in my throat so I reached over for my water bottle and took a sip. In the dark I failed to put the bottle fully back on the side table and it fell to the floor. I jumped out of bed to pick it up before too much water spilled and hit my head on the corner of my nightstand. HARD. Blood and screaming at 5:30 am.
I went back to sleep for a bit, but had to be in Fremont by 7:30 am for my IVF appointment. The lab was packed with people standing outside in the hallway waiting for their number to be called. 45 minutes later I finally get called and into the chair for the blood draw. There are only 2 people drawing blood and going incredibly slow. The girl who takes mine must have hit a tiny vein because the second vial wouldn't fill. She kept moving the needle around to find the vein again. That has never happened to me! I have giant veins you can see through the skin. Sigh. She ended up just pouring some from the first vial into the second so she didn't have to poke me again.
Unfortunately the frustration wasn't over for the day. The ultrasound showed my lining has gone from 4mm to 5.5mm. They like to see 8mm, minimum 7. The 1.5mm improvement is good considering I was on all the new meds for less than a week especially since Kaiser was out of Premarin and I had to pick it up at Walgreens. Its not ideal though. :( The doctor said we could choose what to do. 1) Go ahead and transfer knowing the chances of implantation are significantly reduced or 2) cancel this cycle, let me have a period and then try again. He would start the Viagra etc earlier in the cycle in hopes that my lining would be better faster.
As much as we do not want to wait any more we can't risk losing the embryos we have and having to start all over with a fresh cycle that would cost us another 17-20k. Doing another frozen cycle will only cost us another $300 hundred or so and we know we have 4 fertilized embryos already.
So, after more tears and heartache we've decided to try again. But! Not before we take a break and go to Hawaii and relax a bit. I plan to continue with acupuncture at least one time per week plus maybe some fertility yoga when we start the next cycle.
I ended up going to my regular Kaiser dr this afternoon for my eye. Thankfully its just a superficial cut but boy does it hurt. Dr doesn't think I need stitches. Yay for one good thing I guess.
I need a drink.
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