Yes I said I would blog more. No I did not. But in my defense my family came to visit and we went out of town for 4th of July weekend and I'm just full of excuses today!
So we are back on the traveling for IVF plan. When we sat down and talked about it and upon further research and communication with the clinic we are comfortable with doing it. My husband's work has been really supportive and his boss (who apparently went through infertility herself) is bending over backwards to make sure he can take time off to go do the IVF.
When my next cycle starts (in about 2 weeks) I will be on birth control pills and then start the real deal and travel in early September.
In happy news, my hormone panel came back great. I was worried I would have high FSH. FSH is follicle stimulating hormone. As women age, the body has to produce more and more FSH to get the ovaries to pump out an egg. So when your FSH gets high, it means you have less eggs left and your body is having trouble getting ovulation going. Luckily, my number was very good - 6.6. My understanding is less than 15 is in the clear! All the other hormones were good too so we are very hopeful this will work for us!
And also in happy news, my family member who has been living with us for the last 2 1/2 months (and driving my husband crazy and creating stress in the house) is moving out tomorrow! He got a new job, a new girlfriend, and a new apartment all in a couple of weeks. Of course, don't get me started on the new girlfriend he started dating literally days after his divorce was final and immediately jumped into a committed relationship with. That is a whole nother story. Suffice it to say, on their first date he told her he was an unemployed recently divorced recovering drug addict and apparently that's a-ok with her. Who knows? I'm just happy to have my house back (and my remote control).
I'm now selling a bunch of stuff I accumulated over the years on ebay in an attempt to subsidize the IVF travel. One of the interesting problems I ran into is whether to put the reason for my fundraising in the listing. Is it too "trying-to-get-sympathy"? Will it turn some people off for fear we are doing something unethical? I really don't know. For the record we've already decided not to have any of our embryos destroyed. If we are blessed enough to have extras we will go back for sibling(s) and if we somehow ended up still having more we would have them adopted. All embryos created in our IVF will be given a chance at life.
Well that's it for now. More on the clinic we picked and why later!
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