Delayed

Our appointment today confirmed that while things are going well, we are going to be delayed until at earliest, Thursday, but more likely, Friday. My estrogen levels are at 695, which is good so they are no increasing my dosage but my largest follicles are only at 13mm (18-20 is ideal). I have some growing to do but no one is worried. Right now, it feels as if I have golf ball sized ovaries. I'm not quite at the tennis ball sized stage where it hurts to tie my shoes--that will come around Tuesday or Wednesday.I'm just tired of hauling my butt up to Carmel all the time. I'm ready to have a finite time frame in front of me--a light at the end of the tunnel.

That being said, Friday is a good day. It gives me more time to get work done, Clint gets to go through the first week of his new classes and my mom will be here, so we won't have to go begging for rides. Not that I was not grateful for all the people who offered help to us, but I want my family with me. Its a very stressful procedure and humbling at the same time. I'm drugged, naked, hooked up to an IV with cold fluid running though my system, set in stirrups, poked and prodded in my netheregions while my husband is having a similar experience downstairs and afterward I need help even putting my underwear on. Generally, I don't like exposing people outside of my inner circle to all of the above. Plus, its nice to be able to share this experience, for good or for ill, with my Mom. She knows how much I want to have a baby and has walked in my shoes before. Call it the circle of life, but it is good to have her with me.

So, needless to say, we're looking at a Friday retrieval. I go back up to Indy on Tuesday and should have more specific details then. After my appointment I go have another acupuncture session. Hopefully during this upcoming week I will be able to do yoga after work for relaxation--that should help to. I just need this week to pass quickly, for both our surgeries to be successful, to have lots and lots of fertilized eggs, and for 1 (or more) to take. That's not asking so much is it??