Retrieval

I had my retrieval today! 14 eggs retrieved, 11 mature! I will get the fert report tomorrow!

F U NC

All your stupid North Carolina rules, making my life so fucking difficult!!

As you may be able to figure, things are falling through with my intralipid infusion. Now I have my supplies coming tomorrow and am not sure whether I can have them administered. I'm so angry! Way to wait until the last minute to let me know there is a problem! They WILL let me know early in the AM whether I can get this done!! I swear if I have to pay $200 to get these supplies and have no one to administer them, I am going to go crazy

This is making me feel like a criminal or something...having to beg doctors, call every nurse I know, only for them all to say no...and all I want is intralipid, basically liquid food! WTF! WTF! WTF!

Gimme That Intralipid!

Persistence sure does pay off. That is possibly the number one thing infertility has taught me.

After approximately 30 phone calls, and one wasted trip to the doctor, I believe I've finally worked it out so that I can get my intralipid! and to top it off, I will get it in the comfort of my home!

Getting Ready!

Here's hoping for some luck in Vegas!

I'm so excited and also so scared of this upcoming cycle. I started my Lupron and BCP a while back and next week I will start my folli.stim, vi.agra and all sorts of other stuff. I've been having such a hard time scheduling my Intralipid infusion. Apparently there is some rule in NC about giving IVs to patients from out-of-state doctors. I asked my old RE to approve my IV, but she refused :( kinda pisses me off. I'm supposed to have the infusion next week, but still do not have it scheduled...we'll see what happens.

I've already named my embryos Henry and Ethel...I like the name Henry, but have no idea why I chose Ethel for my other embryo (the embryos that do no exist yet! lol) With my first IVF, I picked little purple flowers for my 8 fertilized embryos. I will have to do something special for the embryos I get this time as well. Will definitely be getting a few souvenirs for the babies. I would so love to have twins, have always dreamed of that since I had twin Magic Nursery Babies as a kid...unfortunately with my unicornuate, I don't think it would be responsible to keep both if they do both happen to implant. Ughh, not even gonna think about that right now.

Huge Mistake!

I forgot to start my bcp....erghhh, grrr, blerg!

Screwed up my whole cycle. Now I have to wait until March for my Vegas IVF.

Photography

The most exciting thing happened a couple weeks ago! I applied for membership into an international wedding photography association, and to my surprise, I was accepted! I've read that only approximately 5% of applicants get in, so I've been just over the moon about it!

I do wonder why I decided to start a photography business right before IVF...probably not the most reasonable thing to do. So I got everything off the ground for my business - website etc. But when I was contacted to shoot a wedding in the summer of '12, I started getting very nervous. With my unicornuate, I could be put on bedrest very early, and I'll (hopefully) be 4 or 5 months by the summer of next year! So I think I have to slow down with photography until I get my baby.

Here are a few of my favorites from the wedding.

All Booked for Vegas

I just finalized all of the plans for our Vegas IVF trip! I'll be flying out at the end of January with my husband joining me for about half of the trip. It will be an 11 day trip for me. I'm very excited to be transferring blasts this time, and two blasts at that! I have a really good feeling about this cycle!

My new doctor tested my natural killer cells recently, which I assumed wouldn't be activated...and they kind-of weren't? During the normal test, my nk cells were deactivated, but under the stress test they became activated. I'll be doing 2 intralipid infusions, just in case the nk cells are attacking my embryos after transfer. I certainly wasn't expecting that, but at least it's easily fixable.