I love when a good plan comes together.

[judecorp]

So it's a very happy coincidence that my health insurance authorization came through yesterday, because just as expected, my period arrived this morning. I called my doctor's office like a good do-bee and asked to speak to my nurse to discuss my "New Orleans problem." She kept counting days on the calendar (as if they would change) and then said, "Hunh." She also kept asking, "When are you coming back again?" She asked if I just wanted to skip a month instead of risk missing it and of course I said no.

Today is CD1 and we're leaving for NO on CD8, staying through CD12. It /should/ be okay... but could be a hell of a close call. So we had to get the plan into motion, and well, holy shit, I can't believe I'm actually doing all of this. It seemed very surreal to make all of these plans today. At work. In the nursery school. During my playgroup.

We scheduled an ultrasound for 8am the morning of our first day back (CD13), even though it could definitely be too late. (They usually try to have people come in around CD10 to check follicles.) I'll be using my monitor this time and still doing temps and stuff, so I'll probably know before then whether I'm missing my chance. But oh well. Ultrasounds are kind of cool anyway, and it's kind of neat to have all of this fancypants monitoring that we didn't think we'd be able to have.

She called in prescriptions for both Clomid (to help with ovulation) and Ovidrel (HCG trigger shot) to this pharmacy in Waltham (I guess most pharmacies don't carry the Ovidrel) that is going to UPS one-day the stuff to me tomorrow because the Ovidrel has to be refrigerated. It also has to be injected. By me, I think. Not sure how I feel about that. Erk. She also called in a prescription for prenatal vitamins to my regular old pharmacy. It seems more real with the prenatal vitamins. (Scary!!)

My treatment team usually has people start Clomid on CD3, but we decided that I will wait until Sunday (CD4) just to improve my chances a little bit of not missing the big day. Hopefully all of the crazy, emotional side effects of Clomid will either a) not affect me or b) be cooling off by the time we're on vacation. *crosses fingers*

New England Cryogenic Center (the sperm bank) is scheduled to deliver the sperm to my doctor's office's cryobank (in Waltham) by courier on April 3rd, while we're still enjoying our vacation. That reminds me, I need to call and tell them the delivery date so they're expecting our, erm, delivery.

If everything looks good on the ultrasound on CD13, I guess I'll do the trigger shot and schedule my IUI. Wouldn't it be wacky if I got knocked up right after our vacation?

HOLY THINGS MOVE FAST, BATMAN!!

Comments

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Then it'll be one of those parental stories about "and this was the exciting vacation that led to YOU!" *wink wink nudge nudge*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'll make sure to take lots of pictures, then. Just in case. :)

[meglett.livejournal.com]

whoa. maybe you'll be getting all s*ermed up when Quinn is arriving! that would be a good omen, right?!? YEAH for all of the insurance stuff, and FX ahead of time in case i'm really, really occupied on april 3-5!

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

ok, it just occurred to me that after i said "sorry i haven't gotten back to you about the doula thing" i ... never got back to you. :\ or did i tell you then that i wasn't doula-ing anymore.

in any case, sorry for dropping the ball there!

i just read in your journal that you're seeing dr. k. good choice - she's rad!

good luck. and i LOVE the name quinn! :)

[meglett.livejournal.com]

you didn't actually say you weren't doula-ing anymore, but that's what we guessed. :) for better or worse, we decided to go without one...not because we don't think it's a wonderful plan and an important resource, but b/c hope is going to (hopefully) use hypnobirthing, and since we haven't done this before, we aren't sure we'll want someone else in the room (b/c hope is going to be zoning out, if all goes well).

we're really happy with Dr. K., and happy that we came across her! btw, congrats on your pregnancy--i lurk in your journal, but have added you to my f-list, just to be official.

sorry, jude, for the hijack.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Eh, mi LJ es su LJ.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I think it would be a happy little coincidence! Even if we're on vacation, you HAVE to call us when it's Quinn time! I need to know!!

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

one of my premed students works at the New England Cryogenic Center -- if you ever talk to Amy, I might know her. Anyway, good luck with all of this!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I don't know who I talked to, but if I ever talk to an Amy there, I'll think of you! :)

And thanks.

[sassyjenski.livejournal.com]

if you're not happy w/ your prenatal vitamin, ask for premesis. it's a vitamin that also reduces nausea w/ extra b vitamins.

good luck!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Will do, thanks for the tip!

[siercia]

Heh. The suddeness of it all makes it almost like when couples do it the old fashioned way... =)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I wish we COULD do it the old fashioned way. Well... as close to that as possible. I wish it was more of OUR event than the doctor's event. But oh well, such is life, and we have plenty of time to have our events.

One thing I'm nervous about is if/when we're successful, how Jen's brother is going to feel. Jen has 2 brothers - one has 3 kids, the other had several unsuccessful IVF procedures with his wife and they have kind of just given up on being parents. They're really nice people and I worry that they will be devastated when their younger sister (by 9 years) has a baby. You know?

[luloubelle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, baby! I'm definitely crossing my fingers and toes and sending you good juju!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[siercia]

Yeah, it's a pretty doctor involved event either way (at least the whole production, if not the actual baby making part). And yeah, this is a few months vs. a lifetime of your own things.

I'm sure it'll be hard for Jen's brother and SiL, but I think that's probably an old hurt at this point - one they visit everytime someone close to them gets pregnant. Given the relationship, it happening for you and Jen might be harder, but I suspect that you're worrying more than you need to. If nothing else, they had to figure it was coming sooner or later. I'm sure you guys can handle it, just as long as you're prepared for them to maybe not immediately be thrilled for you and Jen.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm not worried about being able to handle whether or not they're immediately happy for us... I just genuinely worry about them. Sure, it's an old hurt by this point but you can tell by at least how my SIL talks about it sometimes that it's not a hurt that's gone away. I think they've decided on and accepted childless life but you can just tell that it's kind of a sore spot. I just hate when people are hurt. :(

I really also just wish Jen could knock me up, or I could knock her up. I think that would be cool.