So we had our appointment on Friday. It was weird but successful. We were the ONLY couple there. This practice is huge space wise. It takes up an entire floor of a hospital. And we were it. That was weird. Plus most of the staff was different. I was hoping to work with some of the same people we had worked with before. The new ones were nice but I was expecting the same. It is kind of like when you go to the gyno for a pap smear. Would you want someone else doing that if you were not expecting it? I don't think so. I am sure I will get used to the new ones though. We will see them a zillion times over the next few months.
My Dr was in surgery when we arrived so we waited and waited and waited. This is a slow form of torture for Karlis. He gets where he cannot sit still. So he starts exploring. I somehow feel it is in my best interest not to put on the internet what he does while waiting in a room. It is kind of like search and rescue and anything is fair game. I will leave it at that. He did at one point turn to me and say he wished that they had an eye chart available. I asked him if he even knew what doctor we were visiting that day. But by the end of our appointment I was surprised myself that we indeed did not have to do an eye exam. They asked some of the most irrelevant questions. Since we are using our frozen embryos a genetic history is null at this point. They are fertilized already with our sperm and eggs. What can they do at this point if they find out Cousin Eddie has only 8 toes and barks like a dog on occasion. What difference does it make if Karlis takes a multivitamin? Will this help my uterus be a happy place and except the frozen 3? And probably the craziest thing they did was take his blood pressure and weight. If his blood pressure had been high would they have provided counseling to calm his nerves? Will they monitor his weight from here on out just to make sure he is the one who is not pregnant? I swear some of it was just a waste of time. Maybe they were stalling until the Dr came out of surgery. I would have rather played hop scotch down the hall.
After speaking with the Dr we have learned that 80% of our embryos should survive the thaw. We have chosen to implant three. This is what we did with Kiyah's cycle. They will thaw three on the day of implantation and if one, two or three does not survive they will thaw one, two or three more. Surely we will end up with three to implant if 80% should survive. It takes 2-3 hours for them to thaw. I told him my concerns if we end up with only one left after we have 3 implanted. I was hoping he would say he would implant four just so we did not have to go through another cycle for one embryo. Instead he looked at me like I was nuts. So we will let the cards fall as they may.
I will begin the cycle in September and we will implant them sometimes in October. Although the cycle is not as long and they do not harvest eggs it sounds really similar. They will suppress my hormones and make me go through a menopausal state. This is with the shots in the stomach. Then they will jump start my system with a period and slowly make my body think it is pregnant. This will be a 21 day time span. The two weeks up to ovulation and then the week after. They have to do my drugs perfectly to match what it should be for a five day old embryo. These 21 days will be the hip shots. Then if I do get pregnant the hip shots will continue until my body knows what it is supposed to do. I am sure there are other things thrown in there for fun like the drugs I take by mouth, the cream that had to be inserted you know where, etc. I can sense my readers slowly dropping off one by one at the thought of this.
So after you see the Dr you get to see the.....dum da da dum............financial counselor. They do not let you leave the place without stopping here first. They get your mind full of the thought of having another child and how it can be a possibility for you and then they LOWER THE BOOM. It is awkward. I still hate having to pay for my children. I know they are worth every penny but DANG. So at this time we have decided to accept any and all donations. We know how you all hate you did not have to pay for your unborn child upfront so we are giving this opportunity to you now. We are anticipating how excited you all are and what a great investment this will be. The gift of life, right? Ok, ok, I am joking........sort of.
I will post again as soon as I figure out more of our schedule. They do not share any of this info until they have money in hand. Karlis and Kiyah will be washing cars and selling doughnuts at 4 way stops to pick up a little more change. After all Kiyah knows the value of how important this is. It is as simple as this.......it gave her life.
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