Follicle update

So 4 days of injections turned into 12. I got really good at giving myself shots! I made Andrew watch a couple of times, but he got woozy, so I carried on without him. 

It also turned into 6 office visits to monitor the follicle growth. 

You know when you know you have to go to the lady Dr. & prepare for it, like shaving/trimming things, No sex the night before ect? 

Yeah, that ALL went out the window. (To be fair though, the sex was at their direction/ timed intercourse schedule.) This whole schedule extended to cover 2 of my work weeks. 

Tell me how eager you are to shave (or veet) your lady town after 3 12's. And mandatory sex! I was literally falling asleep in the bathtub some nights. Don't judge me. 

People say that "trying is the best part!" 

I call bullshit. The best part is sleeping. 

I will say that I always make it a practice to bring a clean pair of socks with me. For the sake of your practitioner, do it. 

From experience, sitting that close to a vagina (They always smell, I don't care what you try. It doesn't work & we just get used to it. Bodies smell no matter what you do. It's not a bad thing, but it's there) isn't the most pleasant experience. Sitting that close to a vagina in between stinky, sweaty feet makes it so much worse! And no one wants to accidentally brush up against gnarly toes, either. 

 So, I always bring socks. I prefer cute ones with animals or prints on them- it can start a conversation ;) 

       Like lobsters. They're officially my       "lucky lobster" socks. 

So, 12 nights of injections, $2000 for meds & monitoring, 4 different meds, 6 ultrasounds, way too much too tired sex (seriously it's way less fun when you have to do it every other night...)

And we have 2 follicles that grew enough to ovulate. (17 & 18 respectively.) I'm not sure what the risk of twins is with 2 follicles, and I'm not sure I want to know. I would cry.

I did the trigger shot in the office (gave it to myself, thank you very much) on weds. 2 more nights of timed intercourse in the books & now we wait. 

8 days after the injection (this coming Thursday, I get labs done to check my progesterone levels, and 16 days I get labs done for a pregnancy test. 

(Funny story, I assisted in my NP's csection last year, and she remembered me! She told me that I put her catheter in- I told her that we were even now.)

So that's where we are now, the 2 week wait. 

In other news: 

- Captain America was awesome. Worth seeing more than once. 

- Game of Thrones is back!

- Sephora had a 15% off sale for VIB Rouge members & I might have made 3 separate trips. 

- we got our tax return (which might have contributed to the 3 trips to sephora.)