The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[judecorp]

The Good: - My coworkers and I went to our 5:15pm assessment and at the end of it, we kind of got to chatting about baseball. (The family is big into baseball, but Mom is a Sox fan and Dad is a Yankees fan.) And then Dad hands us, seriously just hands over, 4 tickets to a Yankee game on a Saturday in July that the family can't go to because of other commitments. I said, "Are you sure you want to give these away?" and he said it was to thank us for how much time and effort we spend with his kid. Awwwh.

The Bad: - We got our negative beta today as expected. With a heads-up that if we're not successful next cycle, we'll have to come back in to "talk about what's up" and "decide what to do next." Ugh.

The Bad: - My BIL (Jen's brother) finally got around to responding to Jen's e-mail from about 1.5 months ago asking if he would consider being a donor for us. Aside from saying no (which is totally fine), he added an addendum about how he doesn't think Jen is mature enough, stable enough, or financially secure enough to consider parenting. He spent considerable time telling her how much of a challenge and commitment kids are and how he encourages her to rethink things because she is clearly not in any position to parent. (My take on this: He has issues with his family situation and is projecting his issues on Jen.) How DARE anyone assault my wife's character that way? I seriously want to call him up and yell at him for several hours. Who does that? If he had wanted to impart some kind "older brother" wisdom, I'm sure he could have thought of more appropriate words.

The Ugly: - Jen went to the doctor again this morning for this persistent series of hives/welts she keeps getting all over her body. Her doctor continues to maintain that she is having some sort of allergic reaction. But now she believes her allergy is to a bedbug infestation in our house. I am going to vomit now.

Comments

[violane.livejournal.com]

At least there was a Good to list too! Sorry about the negative. I feel your pain. My doctors already talked about trying injectibles this time since they only got one good follicle outta me last time. I'm not thrilled about it, but I know they can sometimes work a lot better. We'll get there!

As for the bil, way to kick someone when they're down! Not to mention that NO ONE is ever ideally prepared for a child, and that includes him! :P

Let's hope that doctor's opinion is just that, and you don't really have a bedbug infestation!

Good luck with the Bads and the Uglies!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

That's so weird that they're already talking about injectibles because of only one follicle, because really, HELLO, the goal is one follicle! Especially with Clomid, you're really only shooting for one good follicle. The body (in most people) is set up to only release one egg a cycle, the best egg of the bunch. So that's weird that they want to ramp up after one try.

But yeah, injectibles definitely have a higher success rate because they grow more follicles. They also have a much higher risk of multiples and OHSS, though. Be careful! One of my previous cycle buddies had her IUI cancelled due to too high a response to Repronex.

Doctor's opinion or not, we've got the exterminator coming tomorrow morning. Disgusting.

[violane.livejournal.com]

Well, turns out the nurse who implied that might happen didn't know what she was talking about, because not only am I not on injectibles this time, but they didn't even raise the dose of Clomid. They said I had a good response to it, just not a good outcome. :) And yeah, it does seem like "just" one follicle would be great, but I have read that having just one follicle lowers your chances to around 6%. Maybe we need more the one to raise our advantage to that of a "normal" person. Or maybe they're just guessing! :) But I'm happy to not be moving on to injectibles just yet.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I hope we both have lots of big, healthy follicles this time around. No more messing around - we mean BUSINESS!