Good Start

I had labs and an ultrasound this morning.  The doc said I, as in, my uterus, looked beautiful!  :)  She said I'm at 11 and triple striped.  That's exactly what we want it to be.  She said I'm definitely ready for transfer, which is on the 26th.  The Lupron hasn't been a nasty beast this time, no major headaches and no bladder spasms, thank goodness!  The 2 estrogen patches have me a bit emotional, but it's all good.  I will add another patch Friday.  Then I will add the lovely suppositories a couple days later, along with a couple more pills and the famous PIO injections....the big dawgs!  LOL.  I'm happy things are progressing as they should.  Prayers for it to keep heading in that direction!  

It's on!

Well, I started the ever lovely Lupron injection Saturday.  So far, I've had a steady headache.  It's tolerable.  I'm still praying I don't get the bladder spasms I had last time.  Those were so, so terrible.  I'm really pushing my water, as I've heard Lupron can dehydrate you - which could have been part of the reason for the bladder spasms before.  I don't know.  I just know I don't want to experience them again.  We are set for transfer on July 26th if my body responds accordingly to all the meds and does what it needs to do.  I've had no issues before, praying it all goes well and we end up with awesome news to share!  :)

On Hold

I forgot to update this page.  We are in holding right now, due to an insurance issue.  As soon as it's resolved, we will be able to move forward.  I hate the waiting game, but it is what it is now.  S&G had great success with their egg donor last week.  They now have some embryos for future use, which is fantastic!!  As soon as we start moving along, I will update again.  Surrogacy is all about "hurry up and wait"!  :)

Oh. My!

It's been pretty quiet here.  BUT, I received an email stating my meds will ship today and arrive tomorrow!  Woohoo!  I love it when that box-o-drugs comes!  It means things are moving forward. How exciting!!  Will keep you updated as thing progress.  :)

Screening

My hubby and I went to Chicago to FCI for our psychological screening and my medical screening. We got to meet Dr. Kaplan.  He's so extremely kind and quite funny.  He performed the sonohysterography.   It didn't take long at all, maybe 1-2 minutes.  As he was looking at the ultrasound monitor, he said, "Your uterus is beautiful, absolutely beautiful!".  LOL, that's not something you hear every day!  It was such a relief though.  You never know what could be going on in there.  Dr. Kaplan is a very well known and highly successful fertility doctor.  He helped Bill and Guiliana Rancic have their baby via surrogacy.  Small world!!

After all that, we had our bloodwork done - 3 vials from Brad and 9 from me.  We then met with the psychologist.  I believe all that went well.  I then had to take the MMPI....a 344 question test to assess my psychological state.  It's full of strange questions to see if I think people are stealing my thoughts or are out to get me or if I'm suicidal.  Yeah.  Interesting, to say the least.

As of right now, we are looking at a possible early summer transfer.  S&G will decide later if they would like to do a fresh or frozen transfer.  The success rate is the exact same, as long as the donor is young.  I was reading over all the information we received tonight.  It gets me all excited!!  I can't wait to begin all this again!