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My cycle began on Saturday, so today I headed in for a baseline US. I just spoke with the nurse and I will begin injections again this evening. The same amount : 150 mg of Menopur which I get to mix
and inject myslef with for the next five nights. I will go for another US on Saturday morning to see where things are...
Since my doctor is in Providence and there is a spa I like in the Providence Place Mall, once I find out the date of the insemination, I am booking a massage... I want to be uber-relaxed... I don't know if I will have the massage before or after the insemination... I guess it just depends... It isnt like this is something I can plan too well... Nelson and I have also decided to get a hotel room right in Providence... probably at the Westin. It looks like the insemination may take place around our 7th wedding anniversary (10/12) so we may try to "get away" 20 minutes from home.
Ultrasound this morning.
It was the worst one I have ever had. I woke up with the beginning of a migraine. By the time we got to Providence, my head was throbbing and I thought I was going to vomit at any moment. I was not in a good place.
The US tech begins the test and she is having trouble finding my ovaries. After about 3 minutes of digging, she finds the right one. Tells me that there is a 12.5, a 10, and one smaller than a 10 on the right. My left side is usually the overachiever, so I was anxious to hear about what might be on the left side if there was already three on the right. BUT... she cannot find my left ovary.
Literally, cannot find it (this was not the usual tech so I don't know if that had something to do with it) she was searching for about 7 minutes. I think it was 20 (you would have too if you were in my position
), but Nelson assured me that it was 7 minutes. That is alot of time when you consider that I am usually on and off that table in under a minute and the fact that there is not a lot of room for her to be digging.
She tells me that maybe I should get up, get dressed, go have my bloodwork in the next room over, walk around the office a bit to see if we can "jog" it loose. So I go get my bloodwork and go wait in the office. I walk up and down the hallway and walk around the office in circles. After 20 minutes she calls us back in. Up on the table and still cannot find it. This time she dug around for about 5 minutes. She kept saying that she was where it should be b/c she was right along side where the arteries are that it should be at and yada, yada, yada. I was trying to be nice and not steal the wand from her to try to find the little sucker myself!
She then tells me that I am going to have to come back Monday and have them look for it because she just cant find it.
I was, am, less than thrilled.
So I go home and await my instructions. I get a call that they want me to do another 150mg of the Menopur tonight and again tomorrow night, I will have to go back for more bloodwork and another US on Monday morning.
This totally messes up our plans. We were hoping for a Monday insemination (which if things were going as they did last month, Monday would have been the day). Monday happens to be our 7th wedding anniversary , so we were going to get a hotel room in Providence and relax and well, stuff.
I guess that is why it is said: If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
So now, we are not going away Sunday and Monday... but are going to go away next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Hopefully the insemination will take place Wednesday... but we will see...
Sorry Hadley. I won't do it again. 
That is pretty funny though. I keep hoping the same thing everything I feel pressure or a twinge...
Uh, this month, right?
But I guess it's good to know just in case...
