IUI #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BgXRjzQgTA

This is the video of my IUI #3!

Wow...what an adventure leading up to IUI #3. I am glad it's here and done and now I can rest and relax. So glad that it worked out that the IUI fell on a Monday and not past Saturday.

Our weekend in Tahoe together with friends and to my Aunt's funeral was a nice one. The snow was heavy and windy but we managed. I really enjoyed seeing the faces of our friends that we see maybe once a year. My Aunt's funeral yesterday was beautiful....brought tears to my eyes how many people came to it! She was well loved in the community and highly involved in theater. At one point, the priest had asked us to stand up and give Aunt Sue a standing ovation because that was what she requested at her funeral. OMG...tears were in full force at that point. My Aunt really outdid herself on the music selection and prayers for her own funeral. We sang "What a wonderful world" and how fitting were the words to that song for her. I never have fully paid attention to those words but I love it...it's now one of my favorite songs. I also got to meet my Uncle's two daughters from his previous marriage yesterday! My Aunt Sue and Uncle John have been married for 40 years but I never had the chance to meet his daughters! They are so wonderful and I am so sad that I never met them until now. They are sort of like my cousins ya know! They live in Virginia and I vowed to keep in touch with them. They are both in their 50s and just amazing women...a physical therapist and nurse practitioner with hearts of gold. I believe that the reason I never met them until now is a deep one that I will never understand....but I am glad I have now. I feel like I have gained more family after I have lost one. I was able to take a few items that belonged to my Aunt Sue. One was a cute blue thermal shirt with snowflakes on it and it a blue zip up hoodie...SUPER CUTE! I wore both to the IUI for good luck. It felt like she was right there with me.

My husband and brother were great...we left Tahoe today at midnight and got home Monday morning at 4am. My brother let us stay at his house that morning since it's so close to the clinic. I finally told my brother everything about our troubles of getting pregnant and he was so sweet. He hugged me before my IUI and said "Make me an Uncle!" heheh The sperm collection was dropped off at 8am and our IUI was at 11am. It went really great....43.6 million swimmers and one golden egg! Hoping this is it!!

My Nurse Practioner talked about maybe trying one more IUI after this if needed before IVF. She knows we are scheduled for IVF in May. The NP thought about just having me do Femara next cycle to see how I did since I only produced one follicle on Menopur and Femara. That would cut my costs wayyyy down....from about $1500 for the injectables to only $20 for the Femara. It might be worth giving a shot but hopefully we won't need another shot at this.

Feeling crampy and tired...and that is good! Laying here relaxing and reading. I had the day off Tuesday from work too...basically for my sanity more then anything since my weekend was so go go go!

Thanks for reading my super long update! ;) I'll find out the results on March 7th. Hope they are positive!!

I am so tired of this IUI Roller Coaster....

and I want to get off NOW!!! It's a good thing I am writing and not doing a video journal because I am full of F Bombs right now

So I went in for my Day 7 Ultrasound. My lining is thin and I have one follicle measuring 10.5. Whoopeee. I am so pissed off! And you know....I was drinking raspberry tea leaf for the previous months and my lining was always really great. The one month I decide to not drink it..and my lining is thin...of course! Ugh!! I wish I had been drinking it last week....grrrrrr!!

So I have one follicle at this point. They are continuing my meds and I have another ultrasound on Thursday AM. The doctor thinks my IUI might be on Saturday morning.

This is probably the WORST weekend for me to being doing IUI and I am so frustrated. Isn't it always how this is????!!

So my husband and his best friend plan a yearly snow trip to Lake Tahoe every year during President's holiday. His best friend and wife fly out here from Washington DC. They take the 4 days off and snowboard Fri, Sat and Sun. Our plan was to leave Thursday night and head up there and snowboard Friday and Saturday with all of our friends. Sunday unfortuntaly is my Aunt's funeral which also happened to fall on this weekend. We have to head out and drive about 2 hours to my Aunt's funeral Sunday morning. Luckily her and my Uncle lived close to Lake Tahoe so it's not a big deal for us to take the day away from our friends and spend it with family. Then after the funeral that night we were going to head back to the cabin we rented in Tahoe. We were all planning to head back on Monday afternoon but no snowboarding...just packing up and leaving.

So Lake Tahoe is about a 4-5 hour drive for us (sometimes longer if the traffic is bad) and the weather forecast says that the snow will be pretty good because of all of the rain we are getting and to bring chains or you will be turned around.

So guess what?! I have to tear my husband away from his friends Friday night so he can drive back down home for 4 hours and do the IUI Saturday morning at 10am. By the time we get back up to Tahoe it's 5pm and the snowboarding is over. So my husband will probably get ONE day of snowboarding with his friends. This really sucks! I have decided to not even go up until after the IUI on Saturday. I am in too much of a bad mood to want to ski on Friday. I'll just go to work and not take the day off like I planned.

I really really really really hate this! I cannot wait to be done with IUI. I have no good feelings about this cycle and wish I just went with my gut and went straight to IVF.

Thank you Infertility for yet again ruining a perfect weekend for us!!! I hate you so much!

An emotional video blog

I decided to record my thoughts and feelings this time. Sorry it came out sideways at one point. =/ It's a little emotional at one point but it's all how I feel right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qpc39GclY