Just Ramblin’

Had our appointment this morning and my RE office looked like they were giving away tickets to the upcoming Christmas show the Nutcracker (Karlis for some hilarious reason said Buttcracker instead the other day)…it was busy! It was so busy I couldn’t even talk to my RE nurse about the spotting unless we wanted to wait the amount of time it could have taken for me to just diagnose myself. Things continued to regress further when the phlebotomist tried to sever my arm (and there is no exaggeration here). She normally is really good, we abuse the same vein multiple times weekly and life goes on. Well not today, when she penetrated my skin something happened and I think my vein may have dodged the needle. And I think this move was intentional. It is fed up, has had enough. Well I somewhat embarrassingly said “ouch” and then she said “uh oh”. Not a good thing to hear by someone who is currently your life line. Then maybe the scariest part is she started whispering sorry, uh sorry, oh geez I am sorry. This would have been ok but the whole time she was looking at me directly in the face which felt like she was waiting to see what my next reaction was going to be. I don’t know what she expected me to do. Cry? Yell? Faint? And then I realized what she was watching. She wanted to make sure I didn’t DIE when she pulled the needle out. Let me say I said more than just “ouch”. Guess when the vein decided to play a little hide and seek she hit my muscle instead. Just a tip DON’T EVER LET SOMEONE DRAW BLOOD FROM A MUSCLE.
Thank the good Lord things progressed after that. On our way out my doctor saw us passing in the hall and actually called us in to see how I was feeling. Really nice when you have 8 billion people in the lobby waiting anxiously for the Buttcracker viewing. He said about 80% of women have bleeding after the egg transfer. It could mean implantation bleeding, an embryo or embryos are dying off or it could mean absolutely nothing. Anyway it has finally stopped since around 1:00 yesterday. YAY!
As far as medications and shots go. On Monday my progesterone was “excellent” at 345 and estrogen “could have been a little higher” at 1138. So they left my progesterone dose the same and increased my estrogen. Today they called and said my progesterone had dropped to 143 and my estrogen has increased to 4456. What the heck? So tonight we got to make my normal 1cc shot a 3cc shot almost full of progesterone in olive oil. I though 1cc of syrup thick hot sauce was painful. Let me tell you, I was WRONG. This new 3cc shot will make you tell all your secrets. Karlis I guess had barely gotten it in and I started asking if he was about done. Bless his heart; I could feel him not wanting to answer me. Then he barely whispered no, not yet but we are almost HALF WAY. The status of my left hip makes things worse. A couple of nights ago Karlis had a little trouble with the aim of the 1.5 inch needle. This came as no surprise to me because I have seen how insufficient his aim can be in other areas. Anyway, the needle accidently went in my muscle at a 35 degree angle. I screamed and Karlis said he felt and/or heard either my skin or muscle rip. It was bad, real bad. I have managed to not bruise much up until this point but this took things to a new level.
I am beginning to wonder if all this stuff happens to every IVF patient or Karlis and I are just being life’s little guinea pigs. Guess I will never know the answer to that one; it is the only life we know. We have a good life, a great life actually; we are just trying to make it a more complete life with a crazy half Latvian half American blond hair blue eyed mischievous little terror running around……aaawwww, what a little angel.

Big Ginormous Thanks!!!!!........
Second Mom Sue for the BarBQ and banana cake with peanut butter icing (yum!)
My homie Sonya for bringing dinner tonight (it was AWESOME)
My Sweet Little Firecracker Donna for the Dirt Cake (Karlis was beyond confused)
My BIFE Madonna for supplying trash gossip magazines, coloring book and crayons and cute balloons
Flowers from the “central office”
Flowers from “my friends”
Thanks for thinking about us, I love you all!!!