Long weekend

All I can say is, it's been a long weekend! I think I've put more miles on my car this week then our trip out to California a week ago. Well, not really but it sure felt like I've been in my car for hours.

After all the driving on Wednesday to Davenport and Iowa City, I thought I was going to get some good news at my next ultrasound on Friday. Mom rode with me again so Tom could sleep before going camping. I took the day off since I was just exhausted. I had to be Davenport at 8:00 again and unfortunately the follicles on my ovaries were not quite big enough. I am supposed to have somewhere between 3 and 8, I think that was the highest they wanted, but anymore than that could cause problems, follicles on my ovaries and they want them 18 to 24 in size. I thought for sure they were big enough because I feel like I can feel them inside me but they were not the size they wanted, I had one that was 18 on my right side. That was the biggest, I had a few 15's but still not big enough. So since they were not big enough we had to come back Saturday morning! I was not too happy about this because I really wanted to go camping and just relax, well we did end up camping but we had to get up early Saturday morning to drive to Davenport. Our appt. was at 9:00, so we left Whitetail about 7:30. We got there and I was the only patient they had and as the tech is measuring and counting my follicles, she wasn't too confident because I still only had one follicle that was 18 in size, the others that were 15 were now 16 and 17's but still not big enough! So you know what the means... We have to come back on Sunday!

The nurse who was at the office was talking about my meds and what I have left and of course, one of the shots I had to have I did not have. They didn't think I would be going this long so she called around to a few pharmacies in Davenport to see if they had this drug I needed. Since we were there in Davenport and not back in DBQ yet, remember my previous post about last Wednesday? Well, no one in Davenport had the drug I needed so off to Iowa City Tom and I went. It was about a 45 minute drive, much better than 1 1/2 hours. The drug I need was called Antagon, its a drug I give in my outer thigh area and it prevents me from ovulating. Since my follicles are getting so big it would be easy for me to ovulate and the doctor's want to control when I ovulate and they weren't ready for me.

The prescription was waiting for me when we got there and as we are walking out to the car, I checked the bag just to be sure and sure enough there was only 1 in the bag, my nurse ordered 2. So I called her real quick just to be sure. I went back to the pharmacy and they did make a mistake. They gave me the other Antagon and off we went. I was thinking they forgot to charge me but when I got home and looked at my receipt from Wednesday and they didn't, they charged me for 2 but only have me 1. Oh well, no such luck.

So we headed home, or back to the campgrounds and it's now after 12, so we decided to go pack up the camper and head home since we had to be back in Davenport Sunday morning at 9am, again! They promised this should probably be the last time. Will see about that...

We packed up the camper and came home. Tom's Grandpa's birthday was Sunday and his family was celebrating it on Saturday night so we went down there to hang out for a while. They had maid rites and they were so good. I can't remember the last time I had one of those. It was a beautiful night. We got home fairly early, we were exhausted, again!

So here we are Sunday morning heading to Davenport again! I have filled up my car 5 times this week, that's sure taking a beating on the ole pocket book, but it will be all worth it. Again, I'm the only patient today. We had some good news, finally! I had, I think, 8 follicles that were bigger than 18. I think I even had a 24 and that's big. No wonder I'm feeling the way I am, my back and hip area are pretty sore, not sure if it's from that or the shots but it's all worth it. So I am ready to go! We had to wait for the nurse to call us with the next step so Tom and I drove around Davenport for a while because we really wanted to wait for Noodles and Company to open at 11:00 to eat lunch. We found a farmer's market stand that had sweet corn so we stopped to get some of that for dinner tonight, BLT's and sweet corn, the best summer meal ever. The nurse finally called us back and gave us all the details...

Tonight at 10:30 I have to give my HCG shot, this will produce my eggs. Tom has to go into work late because of this but it could have been worse, it could have been at 2 in the morning or something, so Tom called and said he will be about a half hour late. Thank God! He's been so good at giving me my shots, he's very gentle, well kind of, you can't be gentle, you just have to jab the needle in, if you try and be gentle it really hurts.

Tomorrow I am drug free! Yeah!!!

Tuesday is my egg retrieval day. We have to be in Iowa City by 8am and my procedure will be at 9am. I will be put out for this. I will be there for a couple of hours then come home and just rest. I should be able to work on Wednesday, hopefully because I've been off work for so long it seems, I need to get some work done.

Once the egg retrieval is done, the following day I have a number to call that will tell me when the egg transfer day will be, it will be either Friday or Sunday. Everything is working out great. I thought the transfer day would fall on Saturday which is Micayla's graduation party which would have stunk because once the embroy's are in, they don't want me doing anything! They want me to stay lying down with my hips elevated if possible and to only get up to go to the bathroom. So I'm hoping for Sunday, what a better way then to spend a Monday just doing nothing.

I'm now patiently waiting for 10:30, I'm tired and usually in bed by now, watching the news and relaxing in my bed. But I have to wait about 20 more minutes..