Items you'd never expect in your house

That's right, that's a giant bag of needles/syringes and a biohazard sharps container! A box came to our house a couple weeks ago that was filled with all of this stuff and a refrigerated box for the drugs that had to stay cold (those aren't pictured). It was a little intimidating.

Now we have done the first 4 days of Follistim and I had my first monitoring appointment this morning. My left ovary is producing follicles (the things that release the eggs) nicely and my right is producing them slowly. Apparently my endometriosis caused a cyst on my right ovary so that is slowing the production but they don't see any problems with it.

The shots aren't bad. So far Mom has done two of them (she's still freaking out that she's hurting me--they don't hurt, Mom). Meg and Stephanie have each done one for me. Stephanie's was the smoothest but we don't really know why. Mom's tend to burn a bit, but it's probably because the drug isn't warm enough. Meg's fell right in the middle on that scale. The needles themselves don't hurt at all. It's just a question each night whether the medicine is going to burn or not.

Other than being bloated (by night time I even look a little pregnant!), I'm not feeling too many symptoms. Now we wait for our IVF coordinator to call and tell me if I have to adjust my dose tonight and I go back to the doctor for more monitoring on Friday morning.

I'm anxiously awaiting for retrieval. I want to know how many eggs we have to work with and I want to get moving on to transfer day. Then of course I'll wish that the following two weeks will go by as fast as possible so we can find out if it worked (or as my positive side says, "find out THAT it worked").

That's all for now. Check back for more updates soon! I promise to keep up better than I have the last two weeks. :)