Follow Up on Second Visit

Jeff and I braved the icy streets and safely made it to the fertility clinic this morning. Everything went very well, and we had a wonderful nurse named Lisa. She was very positive and encouraging. Now we get to play the wait and see game! Pictured on the right is my doctor, who has a great name - Dr. Abby Eblen. We actually haven't seen her since the first visit, but we were very fond of her.

Our Second Visit

I don't like endless textual posts, so I decided to post a picture of the flowers that I sent my sister-in-law Ava for Valentine's day. She's more like a sister and I think people don't send flowers enough!

We had our second round of Injections/IUI start yesterday. We went in for the ultrasound extra early. Thankfully, the office was very efficient and they took us right back. I got to be the recorder for the sonographer. She told me different things that I was supposed to write down, but she was more interested in telling me that her church was looking for a children's minister.

The measurement of Abbey's ovaries indicated that she was not ovulating just yet, so they sent us home with a syringe full of HCG that Abbey will have to take tonight. Right now we are planning on our friend Elizabeth to give her the injection, but the roads are really icy today. I might get to give my first shot tonight!

We will go in for the IUI on Monday morning. You would think the second time might be a little less awkward, but I am not really planning on it. We'll give an update soon!

No Baby This Month

The procedure did not work this time. It has been really stressful on Abbey and me as we really had hoped that it would work. Abbey seemed okay on Sunday when we figured out that she was not pregnant, but things seem to progress from there. Monday was a really hard day for us both. It was strange. I was in the office talking with Bro. David and Dave about a situation in which I had over-stepped my bounds and I just all of a sudden started crying. It wasn't really because I was getting "in trouble," it was because the stress of the procedure not working had finally worked it's way out. I am used to finding myself in hot water, because my personality does not allow me to settle for second rate work. That makes it hard for me to accept when others around me don't do their job. Abbey also cried on Monday. We were doing much better on Tuesday.

We have our next appointment next Friday (Feb 17) and then I will go in on Saturday for my part and then the insemination wlll happen later in the day on Saturday. Pray that this month things will work out.