Chris and Maddie's Amazing Journey: 1 week to go

Friday 3/13/09     What a Busy day-- Whoo I'm tired......
 
 
So after last night's exam I am starting to feel a little of the stress start to melt away. I believe I did pretty well on my accounting exam, I just hope I did well enough to get the grade I need.
 
Today started off a little crazy- had to make breakfast for Chris before heading to my first Dr.'s appt to have my saline sonohistogram. Traffic wasn't bad so I made it in pretty good time and they were able to see me fairly quickly. According to my doctor everything looks right on schedule except for "one thing".
 
Okay breaking away let me humor you with a little bit of a fertility debocle-
You see upon starting my fertility drugs this time I was told that I would be given two types of syringes to dipense my shots with. The instructions sent by the pharmacy were perfectly labeled and the instructions the Dr..'s office gave seemed to be clear. However, my "one thing" the Dr. found wrong was that my uterine lining wasn't quite as thick as she would've have liked.
 
Now in my past fertility we never had a problem getting me to this point so luckily after more carefull review, I realized I was dispensing the drugs wrong!!!! We caught early enough so that things should still be okay. Now before fingers are pointed here's the humorous part: You see when the IVF nurse was instructing me on the proper amount of estrogen to be dispensed she was giving me the instructions when using the large needle forgetting that the Dr. had ordered two types of syringes small and large. So instead of dispensing the meds through the 2nd line of the large syringe, I was dispensing meds through the 2nd line of the small syringe which meant I was dispensing 1/20 off what I really needed. Now at first I was kind of panicked that I may have really messed up but fortunately, My lining was slowly developing on its own with just a little help from the 1/20 dose I giving myself. What a mess!!
 
Fortunately, when learning about this mixup the Doc said we could try to increase the estrogen a little to speed things up and hopefully as long as I don't ovulate this weekend there is still a chance that I can move forward with the procedure this Friday 3/20.
 
 
Fingers crossed and prayers said this is going to work....