3/10/2017 2 Comments How do you like your eggs?This morning I got up and showered and dried my hair. I didn't wear it in a pony tail. I washed it with real shampoo--not the all natural, unscented crap I've been using. I got to use my scented hair products and I even put a little perfume on. It felt so good. It's amazing how strong scents are when you've been avoiding then like the plague for so long.
I had completely forgotten about doing our progesterone shot this morning. Luckily, my husband remembered. I came downstairs while he was prepping the shot. It's best to lie down for these so we went back upstairs. Yesterday the shot didn't hurt at all...must've been the anesthesia. Today I definitely came up off the bed a bit. It hurt so much. It burned for a good twenty minutes. Later, I discovered it STILL hurts. Like right now...still hurts. On my way to work before 8:00, I got the call from our nurse. Unfortunately, my phone was still on do not disturb so it went to voicemail. I held my breath listening to the message. Her voice sounded upbeat and positive so that was good. I called back and she said that our egg did fertilize. I wanted to be happy about it, but I know it's only the first of many more stages to go through. I also got calls from CNY in Syracuse about their egg donor program. A nurse and the finance person called. My patient portal has now been filled with all their egg donors and their profiles. Matt tested positive for PKU so if we have to go the egg donor route, we'd like to screen the donor for that. The donors do go through a screening panel but PKU is not included. It will cost an additional $300 to have the donor screened. Plus if they test positive for anything they are excluded from the donor program forever. So we may not even convince them to do the screening. CNY actually let's you finance through them and that is incredible. They have many donor egg options. You can do fresh eggs and a fresh transfer for $12,000 plus the cost of monitoring and medications. You can do a fresh egg/frozen embryo cycle for $9,000 plus monitoring and meds or you can do banked eggs for $9,000 plus monitoring and meds. If we chose a $9,000 option we could finance for 2 years and pay $416 a month with a $416 down payment. That seems totally feasible. I feel much better about moving forward with donor eggs now. We had initially talked about selling my car and only having one car to help pay for the eggs. But with this plan we should be fine. I went to acupuncture after work and I was exhausted. I totally fell asleep and had trouble waking up. I spent a good amount of time reading through my old posts last night. It's amazing how much has changed. I never would've thought that I could sleep through acupuncture. I never thought I'd not know exactly when I cried last. I feel stronger. At least for today. We go in tomorrow to see if my lining is thick enough to do the transfer on Sunday. Assuming our embryo is still hanging on. If all stays on track our transfer will be Sunday and we will know in 2-ish weeks if it worked. It feels like our final hail Mary pass. "You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it." Nicola Yoon, The Sun is also a Star.
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Nat
3/10/2017 10:18:45 pm
I know it sounds ridiculous with all the pain that you have been through but it will work, eventually something it will work. I've lost my faith due to this infertility shit (sorry about language) but something tell me that for us something it will work.
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Heather Joyce
3/11/2017 04:13:26 am
I sure hope so. it's a pretty terrible thing to go through for it to not work out.
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