We Have a Plan

I heard back from a nurse (Tina- not my fav, but ok) regarding our need to do/not do the HSG and SHG. The final verdict is that if we wait until my April cycle to do our IVF (our ideal plan) we would need to repeat both tests. If we move forward with the next cycle (March-not so ideal, but ok) then we do not need to repeat the tests. DH and I discussed it, and we are moving forward with March.

*Gulp* Moving forward in March.

It is March. AHHHH!!

Excited and terrified all at the same time. It's the feeling you get at the top of a hill on a roller coaster... right before your stomach is up in your throat. With this being the plan we have put several things in motion. The first is my liver cleanse (TCM through my acupuncturist) is starting today. This is a 3-week cleanse intended to give my liver a break and help it remove any lingering hormones that I took for our last IVF or have hanging around from my pregnancy. The second is that I'm cracking down on exercise. Once I'm stimming, I'm planning on only doing walking/yoga. So right now, I'm using this time to really push myself to lose the last bit of the 20 lbs. goal I set. As of today, I'm down 11.2 of the 20 lbs. Thirdly, I've called all the pharmacies again to get updated prices. So far, we will be going with the same 2 pharmacies from the last cycle as they have the best OOP pricing and are in the US so that we can hopefully write off that money next tax time. Speaking of taxes, we are also filing those this week and hope to get a nice fat refund to apply towards this cycle.

On the work front, I plan to alert the family about my time off in a week or so. Hopefully, by waiting to tell them about this then the mom will be a bit more stable. I'm planning on working while I go to all of my pre-ER appointments as I did before. This time around I'm going to take off work from ER through Beta. With a +++ beta I am going to take the additional 2 weeks off until the first u/s. This is more to give me piece of mind than anything. I know myself. I would be a wreck at work going back before we saw a heartbeat. Truly, I don't know that I will ever relax until I deliver, but I think I could go back to work once I've passed the 6w mark (miscarriage last time around) and have seen the little one(s) on an u/s. If we have a -- Beta then I would go back to work as soon as possible.

For my church job I'm planning on taking off the same amount of time 2-4 weeks. With that being the case I'm thinking I may ask to be released from this position. I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do yet, but for now that's what I'm thinking.

I'm cautiously optimistic. I feel healthy again and more myself physically. Emotionally I still have bad moments, but overall, I am feeling good. I think a spring transfer is a good thing. I'm hopeful that the new protocol will work as well as Dr Opie thinks it will. Who knows, maybe this is what we've been needing to do all along.

So, with this plan our protocol begins with next AF eta March 20th. Wow. Here we go again...