There has not been much change since the last time that I blogged. As far as the doctors appointments and such. Yesterday 12/29/2010 at 8:30am I went in for all my shot training. How to mix the shots ( 5 units into 1 cc of water), how to give myself the shots . I will not only be taking Lupron which I started last night, I will also be on the following medications; lupron, bravelle, menopur ( bravelle and menopur I will mix together into one injections nightly), hcf 10,000 unit trigger shot, azithromycin, Medrol, Crinon, Prometrium, Vivelle Patch, Prenatals, Baby Asprin. Now after reading those I know your thinking! How in the heck is she going to keep up with all those medications and times, and when to take what. Well I have a fantastic staff at premier fertility that will be taking the baby steps with me. Angela is litereally my angel she will be guiding me in these steps. Right now I am just taking 10units of Lupron until Jan 7th . Along with the birth control pill that I will stop taking Jan 3rd. On Jan 7th I go in for a " mock transfer" that is where Dr Deaton just gets a good look at everything and knows where everthing is placed.
January 8th is the day that I start the big shots and drop down to 5units of Lupron a night. I still will be on prenatals and baby asprin. I am not sure what the baby asprin is for (maybe I should ask) but I am sure that since I cant take anything else over the counter medications that its to offset if I am in pain. From January 8th throught 1/14 I will continue to take the shots nightly along with going to get an ultrasound every other day and blood work. This is to make sure my folicles(eggs) are growing as they should for day of retrieval. Hopefully by 1/14 the doctor will be able to give me a date and time to take the trigger shot. After the trigger shot I will wait exactly 36 hours and go in for retrieval. If these words sound funny to you in my previous post I posted a link explaining IVF in detail refer to that if you have any other detail questions :)After retreival is done the doctor will tell us how many eggs he was able to retrieve then at that time I can go home and rest and wait for another phone call to tell us how many embryos that we have and we will make the choice how many to put back. Neal and I have already decided that we would like to put back 2 if possible. Then we will be given a time for transfer. We are praying that we go to a 5 day transfer which is called blastocyst which gives us a greater chance that the IVF cycle will work. We then go in on whichever day we are told and it takes 5 min for the transfer . Then the waiting game begins. I have planned on taking a few days off after the transfer justc cause well lets face it , I will not be much good if I am sitting at my desking wondering if I am pregnant or not. If we do a 3 day transfer I have to wait 10 days to take a blood test to see if I am pregnant. If we do a 5 day transfer we only have to wait 8 days!! So we shall see. Its all in Gods hands. We know this. We have prayed and ask God that whatever happends be in His will.
So thats the dillio of what Neal and I are going through right now. There is a ton more that actually goes into all of this but I just wanted to give you the low down and the basics.
I know many of you will want to know right away if it worked. However for our privacy we have both agreed that until I am 8 weeks along we will not share with facebook or the rest of the world. Just our family. Not that we will not be happy we just want to make sure all is well with the baby or babies and myself. Many of my friends and family think that this is going to be one of the hardest things for me to do and I wont lie! When I get that phone call saying that I am pregant there will be no words in the dictionary to explain the feelings that I will have! I cant fathom how it will be but know that you guys will find out.
So thats basically it. I plan to blog weekly from now on just to keep everyone posted on the shots and ultrasounds. I am trying not to blast it all over facebook so just keep visiting out blog to get updates!
We are truly excited about what God has in store and knows that He is the way the truth and the life! We give God all the glory !
We love you all!
Happy New Year and God Bless
Neal & Elizabeth
