The Big Appointment

Yesterday, I had my big appointment.  The sonohystagram, trail transfer and endometrial biopsy.  I had a friend watch Weston for me, jumped on the train and headed south.  Chris picked me up at the train station and we headed to Daybreak for the doctors appointment.  Normally I go to the U or U clinic in Centerville or at the hospital; but this was the only appointment they had available to do all 3 procedures at the same time. 

The sonohystagram is pretty easy.  They flush out your uterus and tubes with salt water to make sure you that don't have any blockages and your good to go.  A little cramping, but nothing bad. 

The trial transfer. They use a catheter and do exactly what you think, do a mock trial transfer.  They want to double check and make everything is clear and to also mark how deep to go in with the catheter.  Easy peasy. 

Now, onto the endometrial biopsy.  Not fun.  They gave me some Ibuprofen to help with the discomfort and then they use a catheter and they poke at your uterus repeatedly.  They did this 3 different times; each time they went a bit deeper.  They want to get as much tissue sample as they can, along with damaging the uterus enough so the embryos can attach to the "scarring".  I had severe cramping during the procedure, but about 5 minutes after I was ok.  Its great to have this done because they check for precancerous cells.  If anyone know the celebrity, Giuliana Rancic, this is how she found out that she had precancerous cells for breast cancer; would have never known had they not started the IVF procedure.

Today I am feeling ok.  I had to stop all caffeine and alcohol intake on Sunday.  Alcohol has been easy to stop, I only drank occasionally anyways.  The caffeine on the other hand, I am struggling with.  I am having bad headaches, so I am having a small coke every other day to help.  Hopefully I can start going a lot longer.

Next Wednesday, I decrease the amount of Lupron I am injecting to 5 units, stop birth control and start estrogen; so if you see me crying, I'm fine.  100% fine, just on a hormone high.  We go back to the doctor on Feb 10th to check the lining of my uterus to make sure we are ready.  Or as Dr Peterson would say, check to see if the hamburger bun is ready for the meat, lol!  We will find out that day when we will transfer the embryos.  Right now we are pending Feb 16th , 17th or 18th; they will also let us know when we start the Progesterone shots, now be jealous.  We draw the medication out with a 22 gauge needle and put back in me with an 18 gauge needle.  The things we do for babies!

And big news also, we bought a house! Yes, we were originally going to build, but the house we found is going to be perfect for what we need.  We are under contract and scheduled to close the same time as the embryo transfer!! It's going to be a great week in February!

Thanks everyone for the love and support!!