Road Blocks

My life is like going through the airport security..you rush to get to an appointment...wait some more...get poked and prodded..told little information and then they make you wait some more.  As you can probably guess...the appointment I had this past Thursday did not go as we had originally hoped it would. I have taken a couple of days to mull over what we have been told and was not quite sure how to word things exactly. It's alot to swallow.  The waiting game is something my husband and I are getting to be good at. I can not say We always find it fair though.

We are of course delayed again. Road Blocks if you please. We waited a month to go back and see him...rearing to get going onto the next step..jump in as you will...move on forward in our journey and he hands us another sheet and lets us know he does not want to start the next part of our process/journey until January in the new Year.. Grrrrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaaaatttttt! NOT what I wanted to hear at all. Take a deep breathe and everything will be OK...lol not. It is like waiting for Santa or Christmas to arrive and you open up say a Christmas cracker and you get a silly puzzle. Disappointment is something I know a little too well lately. Sooo now we wait some more. Waiting to see if its this month..or waiting until we cycle again and then...onto the next step if we are not there yet. In the mean time... we are still on the drugs still. We are being delayed due to the doctor having meeting and vacation time in December..so we now work around his schedule..even though we are the ones trying to move onward.

The next process called the IUI was explain to us at the last appointment.  It is not my ideal way of getting there..but we are being dealt this hand as Doug would like to say. So as soon as we start my monthly..I notify the doctor...then on days 5-9 I take the clomide like normal..Later on we might be upping the doses..who knows. So on days 9-11 I have to get blood work and an ultrasound done..then the doctor will decide if we will be doing an ultrasound everyday or every other. This all depends on the results of the blood work and ultrasound in days 9-11. So lots of appointments will be happening... After this happens when enough eggs are formed and moved down enough in the fallopian tubes. Which means 1 or more eggs have moved down and 18 mm down the tube.
    
    I have to get a HCG injection and yes by injection I mean needle. 18-40 hours later we refrain from basically touching each other to have the highest quality of swimmers and Doug gets to drop off a sample..Which is cleaned..that's the expensive part. Now when I say cleaned it is called spinning. This is where they remove the seminal fluid..which apparently..even though it is in semen it kills sperm..So it is removed..then they put in a nutrient solution..and the strong/fast sperm swim up and the dumb/slow motility sperm get discarded. Then they take the sperm...form a sperm pellet..and injected it inside of me using a catheter..right up near the eggs...so they do not have far to swim.  Then lucky me I get to take daily Progesterone Suppositories. Now does that not sound like a whole lot of fun.

Of course there is pros and cons. For example...we could have multiples...which I mean at this rate would not necessarily be a bad thing. I want about 4 kids..I have Doug worked up to about 3 children. At this rate..multiples would be lucky. We also have to be careful about Ovarian cysts and Ovarian Hyper stimulation. So here we are sitting at our roadblock patiently waiting to move forward.