baseline..

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steve and i went in for my baseline testing this morning.. CD3.. the ultrasound looked good, showed no cysts, only my usual polycystic ovaries. hooray! my RE’s nurse will call later today with my estrogen results.. hopefully it will be less than 50 so that i am sufficiently suppressed. i’ve never started a cycle with high estrogen before, so i’m not worried.

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estrogen is 40 today! perfect! we are starting sunday!!!!!!! woooooohooooooo

dr. b. seemed somewhat surprised that i’m not complaining of any lupron side effects.. so am i actually.. my mood is much better since getting of the pill and my side effects from the pill are slowly going away.. but they haven’t been replaced by any lupron side effects.. lucky me!

according to dr. b i won’t start stims until sunday night.. which annoys the crap out of me.. especially since the only reason for the delay is that he wants to make sure the the lead RE is there for my ER & ET.. soooooo annoying.. a two day delay just for scheduling purposes. grrrr…

but whatever.. i’ll live. i just need some serious distractions this weekend.. and unfortunately i’ve already read the first two twilight books… in record time no less because i’m hopelessly addicted. i ordered the next two books in the series and am impatiently waiting for them to get here so i can get sucked back in.

so more waiting and injecting lupron.. then sunday night i’ll drop my lupron down to 5 units (from 10), add in a bunch of gonal F and luveris.. and steve and i will both start doxycyline for a few days.. then my first follicle check will be next thursday.. should be interesting as i usual stim very quickly. dr. b said that they are all counting on me because they are so confident i will mature tons of eggs.. apparently some of the other clinical trial subjects are poor responders and we know that my ovaries are good at responding. so hopefully i won’t let them down!!

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my parents are on vacation in nashville this week.. i got a postcard from them yesterday. and i got a letter from my mother. a while back i gave her my empty picture frame book because while i was reading it i really felt that my mother would benefit from reading it.. as she isn’t the most supportive person and doesn’t understand IVF at all.. so i asked her to read it.. and she said she had started it.. but in the letter she said she had finished it.. and went on to sincerely, humanly apologize for any insensitive comments and lack of comprehension.. i cried. i was really shocked by her response as i didn’t think it would really hit her. i feel much better knowing she can appreciate the emotional toll this has been taking on us.. i sure hope i never hear her tell me to have patience again!! … now i have to figure out a way to respond to her letter.. as showing emotions in my family is a bit difficult. …

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