So I got my treatment plan (in exciting IVF terms, this is called a protocol. It makes me think of Japanese businessmen for some reason, as though I should take a business card in both hands. Not sure why I equate embryos with Japanese businessmen but I assure you it has nothing to do with sushi.)
My protocol is:
- Start Buserelin shots 30 June (yippee! Hot flashes! Endless tears! I can't wait!)
- Ring in Bastille Day with Progynova tablets (And I will eat cake, too!)
- Increase progynova dosage on 20 July (I have no memory of what the tablets did to me last time, so this should be interesting).
- Scan again last week of July.
- Start cycolgest on 30 July.
- Transfer 1st week of August.
- Bop around in state of potential pregnancy until middle of August.
We haven't decided how many to thaw, if we should wipe out the whole batch in one go (although any embryos we don't use they'll attempt to proceed to blastocyst, which they can then freeze. Blastocysts are like the teenage version of embryos, complete with pink punk hairdos.) We are fairly certain we will implant two in this FET, especially since the chances are so low anyway (and since we're feeling quite Greek still maybe they'll let us throw the empty petri dishes into the fireplace. I'll check on that one.)
But the whopper came when we got the bill. That's right-we'd forgotten we had to pay for this. Welcome to my world, where I can be a perky size 6 and have the sparkling intelligence of a West Wing writer. So I am lining up a fun tab of £1000 to send off to the hospital shortly. Luckily, we are due to get bonuses the end of this month, so I should have said monies to send over.
It better had do-with the Greek trip, the cost of this FET, and my two+ year-old iPod finally dying (it involved shots of epi, frantic screams of "Clear! Up to 200 joules!" and battery replacements. Sadly, the little fucker just didn't make it.) I had to get a new iPod (yes, this was a "had to". I have to have an iPod. So my £200 black 30GB video iPod arrives tomorrow, where I will drop to my knees and worship it.) The bonus, she is already spent and I don't even know how much I am getting.
Lalalalalalalalala.
Posted by Vanessa at June 19, 2006 10:58 AM | TrackBackShops like a fiend at the iTunes site.
I filled up a 40GB (not)iPod like THAT (snaps). Seriously.
And hey. . . that is one HELLA nice bonus, babe!! Totally, completely deserved, too.
P.S. Have I told you that I love you and that when you write things like "and since we're feeling quite Greek still maybe they'll let us throw the empty petri dishes into the fireplace. I'll check on that one" you make my whole day?
No? Well, I do. And you do.
So there.
Nyah.
xoxo
Posted by: Margi at June 21, 2006 06:57 AMThat's the ipod that my husband bought me for my bday - it rocks! I'm having so much fun with it. That's just what you need to get you through what sounds like an incredibly involved cycle!
Posted by: thalia at June 20, 2006 09:23 PMI would love to see what you have on your ipod, that's some heavy duty music storage!
Posted by: jenny at June 20, 2006 04:05 PMOMG I'm happy with my 1GB shuffle!
Posted by: caltechgirl at June 19, 2006 07:06 PMYou know, I thought that too. My old iPod had 10GB on it, and I'd filled 7. So that knocked me out of Nano category as they end at 4GB. It had to be the next level up, which apparently Apple thought would be "30GB".
Riiiiiiiight.
Posted by: Vanessa at June 19, 2006 06:44 PM30gb!!! Did I read that right??? What on earth does one do with 30GB?!
Posted by: Meg at June 19, 2006 05:02 PM