i've got bad plumbing

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

May Fibroids Burn in Hell

I got up early this AM to take my meds as transfer is in NYC at 10:30AM. I wanted to make sure that I had enough steroid coursing through my body to protect those little embryos. I wound up adding in 10mg of prednisone yesterday. It’s the fastest acting of the three (prednisone, dexamethasone, medrol) [...]

Posted on | September 4, 2011

Back After A Short Break

I’ve been gone for a bit, but I’ve been keeping up with your posts and where all of you are with your cycles. Last I was here, I’d done my fibroid surgery, bled for 16 days, then had my AF arrive about 2 weeks late. The timing screwed things up for my intention to cycle [...]

Posted on | August 1, 2011

Moving onto iron

As of today, I’ve officially been bleeding for two weeks since my hysteroscopy. I emailed Dr. R and he said he’s not worried yet. As long as I’m not filling 4 or 5 pads a day, I’m OK. I only had liners with me so yesterday I went and bought some regular pads so I [...]

Posted on | June 28, 2011

Healing in Heidelberg

We arrived in Frankfurt this morning at 6AM, took a shuttle to Heidelberg, had some food at our hotel and checked into our room quite early. We were exhausted and fell into a 3 hour nap which could have easily stretched to 8 or more hours. We’re here to visit the BF’s cousins, vacation a [...]

Posted on | June 26, 2011

Yesterday’s Surgery

I had an early morning surgery at NY_U yesterday. I had to arrive at 7AM (yawn) for an 8:30AM surgery. It was another one of those procedures where I was alone. The BF left for Vegas the day prior. Two nights at the Wynn and then a night in SF. I was supposed to go, [...]

Posted on | June 17, 2011

Reality Bites

Tomorrow morning, a girlfriend of mind, “J”, will be transferring two seemingly perfect “xx” embryos made from donor egg and donor sperm. “J” is 46 or 47 years old, single, and really wants a child…specifically a girl child. She found an egg donor that was 23 years old and quite striking. Her sperm donor is from Denmark – an [...]

Posted on | May 18, 2011

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

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