i've got bad plumbing

the frantic (in)fertility odyssey of a woman of 47 to get knocked up

Fibroid Hell

Last Friday I did an U/s with Dr. R. He did a transverse scan and noticed something odd. He said that I either had a tumor in my uterus or that my lining was growing “funny”. I went in for my SHG yesterday and, as suspected, Dr. R found a 2cm fibroid in my uterine [...]

Posted on | May 6, 2011

CD5: Decisions have been made

Had a quick consult on the phone with my immunologist, who freaked out that Dr. Czech was thinking of going after only one egg. Thank god. I was the only one freaking out about this and I couldn’t understand WHY. He offered to do my IVF “and” my immune work together for about $9500. He’s [...]

Posted on | April 10, 2011

CD11: Immunology Results Are In

I finally had my in person meeting with Dr. Braverman yesterday to go over the results from my immune tests that he ran. A few surprising things: My NK cells are at 28% killing power. This is about 50% higher than they’ve ever been over the last 5 or 6 years. For the first time [...]

Posted on | February 26, 2011

I am in love

I stopped taking my post-surgical darvocet yesterday so that I could make the 80 mile drive to Marlton, New Jersey. There was a horrible downpour on the way there that made me thankful that I didn’t take my meds. I wound up there an hour early anyways which was good as they had a bunch [...]

Posted on | July 15, 2010

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