Back to California

Good news: My cervical biopsies came back negative for dysplasia of any kind. Thank god. The dreaded virus still lurketh, but my body is clearly fighting it off. Bad news: The mole biopsy on my face, flesh colored little thing that was wedged into my naso-labial crease (line between nose and corner of lip) came [...]

Posted on | January 22, 2011

Birthday Eve

AF is taking her time showing up in full force and I am quite happy about this. I was worried that Dr. Italian was going to be doing my baseline way too early and he was right: there’s enough hormone in my body to trick things for a while. Today’s my last day at 44 [...]

Posted on | November 29, 2009

Ironies and Iron Levels

So I’ve been on BCPs since my last hysteroscopy, roughly five weeks according to my pill packs. I’ve bled the entire time without cease…and yesterday was my last BCP. Ironically, I stopped bleeding on the last day of my BCPs…and now I can look forward to….more bleeding as my AF starts. Oy. On iron levels, [...]

Posted on | November 28, 2009

Some Preliminary Bloodwork

Went to see my hematologist today. They took some blood and ran a CBC today and sent out for the ferritin results. My hematocrit was about 31 before the iron IVs, today it was at 36.6%. Still under the mark. Normal range is 37.7 – 53.7. So I’m still low. He also did a reticulocyte [...]

Posted on | November 23, 2009

Iron Infusion #5The Day After

Finished my sequence of 5 iron infusions yesterday. I didn’t get the V-Man for my IV but a nice nurse – she rocked – she placed my IV with less pain than a typical blood draw. An hour and a half later I was done. I haven’t really noticed any side effects – maybe a [...]

Posted on | November 22, 2009

Iron Infusion #2

Today was the 2nd in a series of 5 intravenous iron infusions. They didn’t place a port but are instead moving the IV around each day. Today’s was in my left hand between my thumb and wrist. It’s a nasty area to place an IV but we’ve got to make use of my veins as [...]

Posted on | November 18, 2009

Iron Infusion #1

Today was my first iron infusion to get my ferritin levels back up to normal. I drove about 11 minutes to my hematologist’s infusion center – I’ve been here before when I was here for an IVIG infusion. Lots of little old ladies undergoing chemotherapy – some are bitter, some are dealing with it ok. [...]

Posted on | November 17, 2009

Low Ferritin Levels and InfertilityCould this be the hidden key to my problem conceiving?

I had a wild hair to follow up on a bunch of blood tests that were done by the hematologist who did my IVIG infusion. This was about a month ago – precisely the day prior to my embryo transfer. So on Friday I made the trip to his office to see if anything interesting [...]

Posted on | November 14, 2009