Wow has the summer gone by wayyyyyy too fast! I won't even begin to explain how sad that makes me feel, I love spring and summer more than anything. I'm just glad I have so many things to look forward to over the next..........10 months, assuming everything goes well. I have this lingering feeling of "what if my body doesn't do what it's supposed to?"...........I need to get over that quickly.
So, lets brief over the past 2 months: In June I flew to the clinic and had my check-up, which I blogged about just before this post. I received a phone call from the clinic on 8/2/12 to learn that the donor had been cleared to proceed.........along with the rest of us - WOOO HOOO!!! T&Y were over the moon, I could hear it in their voices over the phone and I could read it in their messages to me. The transfer is set for 9/13 or 9/14.
I started birth control pills, baby aspirin, and prenatal vitamins that evening. The birth control is to sync my cycle with the donor's and my fingers are crossed that my cycle will cooperate.
I received the rest of the medications via FedEx on 8/10/12 and words can not express how excited I was to get those. First of all, the box was like the "black hole" - a never ending supply of pill bottles, syringes, alcohol prep pads, oils, etc. It meant "the beginning of something amazing", and it was also a little scary to see those intermuscular syringe needles. But it made everything a little more "real", for me.
I had my first "monitoring appointment" on 8/13/12 to measure my uterine lining. I assume all was "good" because I received a call from the nurse at the fertility clinic with the "go-head" to start my Lupron. Lupron is a medication that is used to control ovulation and it is given via subcutaneous injections. I was warned by the nurse of the possible side effects; nausea, moodiness, dizziness, headaches. I've read quite a bit about other surrogates' experiences with Lupron and their side effects and those are the ones that seem the most common. I give myself the injection after work around 5:00pm every evening and tonight will be my 5th day. So far, I've experienced; a headache, which probably had nothing to do with the meds since I get headaches periodically anyways - nothing an Excedrin couldn't kill; a bruise at one injection site (won't be using that area again! Ha!); some dizziness a few minutes after the injection; and I'm just going to pretend that my moodiness over the past week has EVERYTHING to do with the meds - today is my worst day in regards to moodiness but I have a feeling the weather has more to do with it than anything else. So, in all honesty, I don't feel much different and I'm expecting it to gradually show its effects with each passing day. Not to be a Debbie Downer, I just think it's better to be prepared :)
Mine and Terry's flights are booked to go to La Jolla 9/11-9/17. We plan to spend time with T&Y on the two days before the transfer - probably the San Diego zoo one day and maybe dinner and walking around another day. I will be on STRICT bed rest at the hotel for 3 days following the embryo transfer, before I'm allowed to go home. I had been pretty excited about the idea of sitting in bed and relaxing until one experienced surrogate mentioned not being able to shower during that time........WHAT?!?! So I quickly came up with a solution and decided that Terry will have to give me sponge baths in bed because there is NO WAY I am laying in bed for 3 days without at least SOME form of washing. Is it weird that I'm one month away from this amazing experience and all I can fret about is the fact that I won't be able to shower?! I plan to spend the first day off bed rest, taking a shower!
I'll have more to blog about when I start my estrogen injections (those are the big ones), next week. Terry will be administering those to me in my butt cheek..........lets hope there isn't a whole lot to blog about next week ; )
Until next time..............
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