You would have thought the Dr. had given me a week to live when he said our next step was IVF.
I don't like needles.
I don't like paying large sums of money. Especially on something that should come easy.
Have I mentioned I don't like needles?
I'm not a person who turns to medicine for every little ailment. I try to cure things on my own accord.
Case in point:
If I have a headache, I drink either a glass of wine or a cup of coffee (this is based on how early in the day it is). Normally, the headache goes away.If I cut myself, I just throw some neosporin on it and call it a day.
Meanwhile- when Dr. McDreamy said, "oh, you will pay around $2,500 -$3,000 on meds," I almost fainted.
1. I don't want to spend that much money on meds.
2. Dear LARD.....how many meds will that be??!!!This is how many:
I told H that I don't know if I should laugh or cry. It certainly can't be a good sign? Right?!
The month before IVF, the Dr. wanted me to start prenatals and do a month of birth control. #counterproductive?
This is how he held the needle:
I fired him 1.5 seconds later.
I don't think so buddy.
I'm not going to paint a rosy picture here.......the shots hurt. They hurt real bad.
I had to take 2 shots in my stomach and one in the toosh for roughly 2.5 weeks, but, after you become preggers....you have to continue taking the progesterone shot for 10 weeks.
A low point for me in the IVF process was doing this during the summer. We lived walking distance from the Country Club pool and I didn't want to go. I had bruises all over my stomach.......and my toosh. A whole piece bathing suit would obviously cover up my stomach, but my booty looked BAD.
So I did the only logical thing I knew to do: Cry and eat ice cream on the couch.
I cried a lot that summer. I was an emotional train wreck that was slowly derailing.
I was busy with summer school as I was taking my hardest classes, busy with work, we were trying to buy a house for the anticipation we would get preggers on Round 1, we were keeping IVF a secret, friends were having babies left and right and I felt jaded that I had to do shots 3 times a day. I was a peach. That was bruised.
Our timeline was the following:
April 27th (my birthday)- Drop cash like a balla' for IVF costs to the Dr. and start taking prenatals
May 2nd- Supression check with Dr. McDreamy
May 7th- Last birth control pill
May 11th- ultrasound
May 15th- ultrasound
May 17th- ultrasound
May 19th- ultrasound
May 21st- ultrasound
May 23rd- Egg retrieval day!!
May 28th- Transfer Day (pregnant until proven otherwise)
May 29th-30th- Bedrest
June 6th- We are PREGNANT!
June 7th- Dr. confirmed! Hormone levels are through the roof!
A week later, we miscarried......Father's Day weekend.
Thanks for trying at the game of Life.
See 'ya tomorrow for Part 5.
