Looking back over my last egg collection in May, I see that at day 11 on that cycle my oestrogen was at 1,800. Today it is 3,600, which I am very pleased with – considering yesterday’s level was only 2,000 and that had only gone up from 1,700 the day before. Grow eggs, grow!
I had Dr Annoying do the ultrasound this morning, so I am a little hazy on the exact follie sizes, but I think it was 19,18,17,16,15, 12 and 10. Every time we do an ultrasound another follie seems to have appeared, which is odd.
All the nurse could tell me about egg pick up is that it won’t be Wednesday. I am hoping for Thursday because DH can’t really make it up on Friday as he’s doing anaesthetics for a surgery list and would feel awful having to cancel all those patients’ operations at the last minute. He took 2 weeks off thinking the cycle would fall in that time, but unfortunately my body had other ideas, so now the schedule is all messed up. We asked Dr T earlier about coasting until Saturday due to work constraints and originally he said that was fine, but yesterday he said we can’t (didn’t give a reason). So who knows what will transpire. IVF cycles are such a day-to-day process, full of complete uncertainty. I feel kind of weird thinking that a whole bunch of people might get their ops bumped and be really pissed off (with every right) and that it would be down to me (though they would never know that). I know it wouldn’t be my fault, but I still would be largely responsible.
I got to the clinic at 7.15 this morning (it opens at 7.30) and already there were six women on the ultrasound list before me. When they had seen those six women, the Dr said “there are 21 names on this list so this will take a while to get through” (Only one Dr does them each morning). “Are there any people here who really have to be seen early due to time constraints for work etc?” and of course there were, so three other people went ahead of me. Which gave me time to stew longer about the fact that it was Dr Annoying doing the procedures and how would I be? But then I just thought to myself “I know I’m ok, and I don’t have to give him the power to make me feel uncomfortable” so I didn’t think about him again, just thought about how I wanted to feel and act, and it was fine. Another hurdle jumped.
I was still out by 8.30 and drove straight to the beach where I swam and sunbathed for half an hour (which is all my skin can take before burning and I hate sunscreen, so I’d rather cover up or remove myself from the sun) which was just beautiful. Probably it was already 30 degrees in the shade. (The high temp was 36, and as I write this it is 32 with a cooling sea breeze. I love summer!)
After the beach I did a food shop for the house where I am staying, got home, unpacked it and then headed off for my acupuncture appointment for which I thought myself 15 mins early but actually was 15 mins late. Lol. Might be getting a bit too laid back!
Then I caught up with a friend for lunch. She is in the last month of pregnancy with #3 and we don’t see much of each other, and won’t now for a good while, as she’ll have 3 kids under 5 before Christmas. So that was nice, and I was only a tiny bit jealous which was also nice.
And then, you’ll be happy to know, I spent the rest of the afternoon on the bed reading, resting and catching up with TV shows online that I missed on the weekend. And now I better text my friend to say I won’t be going out to the movies tonight. Me and my cold need an early curfew. And I need all the energy I have for growing those eggies.
P.S.: my surroangel (as we like to call such saintly women here) has begun a blog of her journey with us, which you may like to follow. You can find her at realisingdreams.
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Just as an easily accessible record for my own future reference:
CD E2 Follies
6 510 9,7,6,6,?
7 560
8 1,000
9 1,700 15,15,13,12,7,7
10 2,000
11 3,600 19,18,17,16,15, 12, 10
12 ?
13 Trigger
14 Egg collection
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