I started my period. As a matter of fact I started my period at the nail salon. The nail salon that made me late for my dinner date with my friends because my nail tech was real busy showing everyone the pictures of her newborn, as it was her first day back from maternity leave. Oooooof course it was. Oh yeah...you just had a baby? Well, I just started bleeding on your chair. I must admit...that little Asian baby (Andrew...really?) was pretty damn cute.
As I started last night I called Dr. P's office today. "I started my period! What do I do now??" It's like being 14 all over again. Yes, I was a late bloomer. Imagine my excitement when I FINALLY got some boobs in high school. Spoke with J, one of Dr. P's nurses and she said I really should wait until next month to start the bcp. Fine by me. The less crazy I have to be for the shortest amount of time works for me! Then we were talking about the REAL schedule. None of this, well if you do this, then we do this bull-honky...a real schedule. When I start next month I call and I start the pill 2 days after that. Then we go to Hawaii (woooo!!!!). Then when we come back I start Lupron injections and I do my first intralipid infusion. I stay on the Lupron until I start my period again and that's when I go in for my "baseline" (I had no idea what that meant...I thought I knew what I was getting into but I was just writing things down to google after our conversation and I found this link and it is awesome and explains just about everything http://infertility.about.com/od/infertilitytreatments/ss/ivf_treatment.htm ) then we will start stimulation drugs around the 6th of May and then egg retrieval somewhere around the 18-19 of May. WHOA. This is really going to happen! So fingers crossed, I'm good and knocked up by the end of May!
Oh, what we didn't talk about on this phone call, but we did last month is the "uterine scraping" Um...come again? What in the actual hell is a uterine scraping? Oh, they go in there and "rough up" the lining of your uterus because it aids in implantation. Oh, sure sure...that only makes sense. WHAT?! That sounds scary. Who am I kidding, the entire process is scary, but I'm willing to do whatever they say. He was very up front in the beginning - "There's a difference in doing research and practicing medicine and I'm not doing research on you, you've been through enough." Alrighty, Dr. P...you practice that medicine! Apparently they're doing anything and everything in round 1 to make sure it's successful. Sweet!! So for now I'm drugging myself every 4 hours just to be able to walk and have no "hard" drugs to take quite yet and I have therapy tonight...she better hold on...this bitch is kinda cray cray right now! :)
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