Stim Day 7

I’m onto stim day #7 and have an u/s appointment to see if my three measly follicles have grown in number. The aching in my ovaries is totally unwarranted given the small potatoes of this cycle. Days 1-6 I did 750iu of gonal-f a day. Just madness when you think of how much gonal-f that [...]

Posted on | May 16, 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

CD7 of the wait

It’s Monday and lots of folks were lucky to get the day off. I, however, did not. Bah. Instead, I worked from home as best I could with the BF’s two boys here. Both sick, the youngest up three times in the middle of the night barfing his poor little heart out. I don’t know [...]

Posted on | February 22, 2011

CD19 is now CD1

On the way home from the U/S I stopped by at Costco to fetch a few things. I wound up having to sit down, fire up the laptop, and actually answer some email from their icky food court area while chowing down a shrimp Caesar at the same time. Email done, I gathered my things [...]

Posted on | February 16, 2011

Wishy Washy Me & Phantosmia

The U/S man called me at 9AM. We were still in bed as my other half had to fly to the other coast for work today (yes, on Valentine’s….joy) and we were trying to get a bit of extra snuggle time in before starting the week. The U/S man said that he was willing to [...]

Posted on | February 15, 2011

Ultrasound Scheduled

I fired off a bunch of emails last night in hopes that I’d find a way to get an ultrasounded tomorrow. Friday’s just too long to wait. I contacted: Dr. Italian The new RI out on the “island” Dr. R (a high risk ob/gyn in midtown that once told me he could do a doppler [...]

Posted on | February 14, 2011