Update...

SHOCK, i didn't keep this updated. Well for one, I don't believe anyone reads this so it does seem pointless to keep it updated. Anyways, the egg retrieval was on Oct. 4 and then my lovely period came 10ish days later. Luckily, I was not hyperstimmed, which was awesome. Yes, I had some discomfort near the retrieval date (both before and after) but it was very manageable. I did take a few hydrocodene afterwards mainly to help me be able to sleep because laying down was a bit painful, moreso discomfort. It did take a week and a half to be able to fit in my jeans again because I was pretty bloated. To me I looked a few months pregnant, the stage where you don't neccessarily look prego but just look a bit fat. I had the follow up u/s yesterday and my ovaries are still large but nothing abnormal. Finally, I am going back on the pill. Although I may not need birth control, I do feel so much normal on it. The plan is to do this in a few months again, of course I would have to be picked by a "couple/ recipient". They were able to retrieve 14 oocytes/eggs, which to me was pretty darn good. I was worried that for some odd reason it wouldn't work or they would go in there and no eggs were there. I know 14 were retrieved, but after that I know nothing; how many embryos formed correctly and if the recipient will have a successful pregnancy. Of course I hope that everything works out and in 9 months a new baby will be born. Then, when they decide to add to their family they will be able to "thaw" an embryo or 2 and become pregnant again. My thing is as expensive as it is to use an egg donor they are people that will thouroghly love this child or children. Yes, money is not everything but it sure helps.

Other news is school is crazy busy. Since I changed my major to Social Science I have to take some basic classes so this semester I am taking US History I, Elementary Statistics, English Compostion II, and Public Speaking. There are a few issues with my classes but overall everything is going well.

My sister is almost 30 weeks with my twin nephews so it is getting reeeally close to meeting the boys. It will be interesting to have boys around since I only have sisters. Her baby shower is this weekend so if course that will be fun.

Still single, but really when would I have time for a relationship? Yes, at times it SUCKS being single but for one how would I deal with going through IVF (minus the transfer) while being with someone, it would be crazy. It would be one thing if we had been in a relationship for a long time, but would be weird being in a new one. Really when I see my life down the road I really dont see me being with someone, I just see me as a mom. I dont know if that means I will adopt or do IVF myself but I really see me single. Hopefully that will change but if not I am surrounded by love.

I got a print out about the egg retrieval surgery and about my weird uterus and on the papers it says I have a "uterine didelphis" which means I have a double uterus and 2 cervixes. I have never had symptoms so without me doing egg donation I may not have known about it until I could have problems. I don't necessarily think about it daily... but I know it may come into play down the road when I want (a) kiddo(os)...

Day 8

I have now been doing Lupron for 8 days. Injections are now crazy easy. I just wake up and give the injection, put the needle in sharps container and then eat breakfast. The only effects that I have been noticing on Lupron are more facial acne and headaches. The acne may be partly from the birth control pill that I am on. Unfortunately, with the headaches I can only take Tylenol, which doesn't work for me. I have figured out if I take tylenol with Coke it kinda works, so I have been doing that. It sucks because I gave up caffeniated sodas a few years ago for my migraines, but I will just drink them this month and then give them up again. Tonight I am taking my last BC pill and then my period should be coming soon...
That's where I am at now....

Number One

My first ever injection I gave myself went well. There were no issues, other than the skin around injection site was red probably 15 minutes. I was happy that it didn't even bleed.
Ugh after this is all over, I need to figure out what pill to go back on, Reclipsen is not it has gave me more acne than usual, oh well....

Lupron

The other day I picked up my box of goods: lupron, syringes, alcohol swabs, and intructions. I begin my daily morning injections and then eventually will add evening injections to my regimen. It seems pretty easy and the needle is tiny. The instructions for lupron are clean top of lupron bottle with alcohol wipe, with another wipe clean area where injection will go, put syringe in bottle, go to 10 units and make sure no air is inside, then squeeze fat, and inject. It doesn't seem to difficult at all. Headaches are possible with Lupron so I have already picked up sugar pills, I mean Tylenol to take as needed. Hopefully if I get headaches they will be manageable. I continue to take my BCPs for a bit longer. I finally told my dad what is going on, they only thing he said was so is it true that you may not be able to have kids down the road based on the septum. He hates needles so he has also let me know that he doesn't want to see me inject myself.
I will post tomorrow after the injection...

Calandar

Hello Blogger world,
I have been on Birth Control Reclipsen since Monday (8/22) and will stay on that until 9/14 with Lupron injections startin on 9/7. Lupron will continue and on 8/22 an evening injection to stimulate ovaries to produce more eggs will be added in addition. The estimated egg retrieval date is 10/3, so hopefully someonw will have an awesome Thanksgiving and Christmas present.

School started 8/18 but with Hurricane Irene coming school has been closed from 8/26 through 8/29. This hurricane is more frightening because the eye of the storm will be making landfall here. Yes, hurricanes have come before, but they had made landfall which then weakened the storm. At 7am it is raining and windy, not too badly yet, but by the end of the day and into early tomorrow, it will be way worse.
Going to try to get more sleep...

Next Step...

Yesterday I recieved another packet in the mail about the ED (egg donor) stuff. It was about the general types of medicines (the protocol varies some), what the medicines do, and rough timetable of the meds/injections. I am finishing up my bc pill packet, period starts, and then I start injecting myself. I am not that nervous about the actual injections but want to make sure I insert the needle in my abdomen correctly and to make sure I take the absolute correct medication. Before I begin the injections I have to go to the office and they will give me a 'lesson' on how to do it so I am sure all will be fine. I am also hoping that don't get OHSS (Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome), sometimes it happens, it can be really bad but is watched closely to make sure that it doesn't become that bad.

In other news, school is starting in a week... Great, school begins around the same time I am injecting myself and not feeling that comfortable. Hopefully the way I made my schedule will work well with this and I won't have to miss any school, that is what I am hoping. The goal is if (hopefully it's not) the ER (egg retrieval) falls on a school time that the ER will be in the morning, I will come home sleep it off and then someone can drive me to school that night since I won't be able to drive. That is the goal, hopefully it isn't too far fetched.

I am getting excited about the the egg donation. Yes, to some it may seem far out there, but I am giving someone the possibility of a family. Yes, there are no guarentees that it will work, but hey it might, and hopefully it does. Since it is an annonymous donation, I probably will never know the family, and while some may not be fine with that, I believe I am. It would be cool if years down the road somehow we did become in contact, but if that never happens, that wil be fine also. There is the option to do egg donations up to five times, and although I doubt I will do it that many times, if all goes well I may do it again.

Until next time....

period...

This morning I started my period, the first one back on the pill. I am loving it, as much as you can- no cramps and very light bleeding. When all of this is over with I may request this pill to take. The recipient is still getting testing done but medications for me have been ordered, so maybe in the few weeks I will be 'shooting up' so to speak.