Saturday, August 28, 2010

Surgery

I had to have another polypectomy. Luckily, the procedure was able to be scheduled such that we are not delayed any for our cycle. I had them removed yesterday. The RE said that she removed two large ones and 4-6 smaller ones, plus she did a D&C to remove any micropolyps.

I just had this done in December and she was able to find 6-8 already! I'm a machine. I wish I could grow babies like I can grow polyps. Argh.

I'm feeling well enough today. Not too crampy, and taking a bit of dar.vocet here and there when I start feeling really icky. Evillage had to go into work last night. She's had quite the month. I think after last night, though, that things should settle down, and she will be much more able to focus on what is going on over here. I would be mad, because I can be selfish from time to time, but she has had some seriously legitimate and serious issues going on at work. Hopefully things are ready to settle down there though.

We have started our Geni.relix injections. No biggie at all. We go in for our first of many ultrasounds on Monday. I think I will go in by myself and E will stay with Avillage. I was looking at names today, trying to conjure up lots of hope and good baby-vibes. I looked at both boy and girl names, hoping that we have to pick one of each. :-)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

The big guns

Well, obviously our June/July try didn't work... again. We decided to go straight to IVF. We can't do this anymore. We can't emotionally afford to do this indefinitely, and I'm only getting older - not that I'm the most fertile person out there to begin with.

So, we decided to move to IVF. To complicate matters, I have polyps in my baby-maker, so I have to have surgery tomorrow to remove them. This will be my third one. It will be my second one in 9 months. Yeah, pretty much over it. It's an outpatient procedure, but full anesthesia makes me more than a tad uneasy. The good news is that tomorrow surgery is perfectly timed in order to allow us to move forward with a September cycle.

Another ounce of good news is that our insurance is actually covering our meds, with really high co-pays; nonetheless, several hundred dollars is so much better than several thousand. So, tonight, we did our first IVF injection.

More to come on this. I am beyond stressed out these days - though I will probably be a lot better after tomorrow's procedure is complete- and it's a big deal too. Given we get a few good eggs, we are planning on putting in two. I want twins so much, and I'm hoping that setting my heart on it will mean that the worst news we get is a singleton pregnancy.

Pray that this is it for us, internets, because this mama doesn't have much left to give. Oh, and we're going broke over this too, quite literally.