Three weeks & a day
So I’ve been patient. I’ve been an exemplary donor recipient. But has it gotten me anywhere? Nope. Three weeks ago yesterday, I was told “Her testing will be done in 2 or 3 weeks & then we’ll call you and get going.”
Um, yeah. Three weeks & a day here. Where’s my damned phone call? I want to start taking those scary-ass hormones again! My mood has been much too mellow lately. I want to have to fight down the urge to throw furniture! Oh Lupron, how I’ve missed you…
So in the absence of a “Let’s get going” phone call, I’m forced to believe one of my earlier hypotheses. It’s possible she’s tested positive for some dread nasty she picked up during a wild night of partying during which she also got tattooed in numerous places by numerous, hygiene-deficient tattooists; she’s backed out of the process altogether, deciding that having 2 genetic children before she’s 23 is just too damned creepy for her; or – most likely – she was totally abducted by aliens. The silver kind with big bug eyes. And she’s currently being probed and is therefore unable to donate gametes toward my baby-makin’ project because she’s being taken to live in a zoo on the bug-eyed-monsters’ planet. Poor kid.
Poor me. Baby makin’ bits whooshed up to outer space, headed in the direction of Alpha Centauri, and does my clinic bother to give me a heads up?
Seriously, I’m going to call today, because I did wait an extra day and they still didn’t call. They owe me a progress report. Because otherwise my head will explode and that’s never good for soon-to-be-expecting moms.
In other news, I’m not excited about going in to work today, but I am excited about reading my email (maybe there’s a note from HR saying report to the Library-by-the-sea tomorrow!) and I’m excited about going to a different library on Wednesday, and I’m excited about getting out of work and going to eat Brazilian food with our crew of foodies. But work? Today? In the Realm of Pain? Not so much.
I know. Big surprise.
Yeah I am going with the alien theory. Make the call! Seriously, I am sure it will be fine. Here’s hoping for good news from the clinic and the library by the sea.
Definitely call today and see what the deal is – it really helps to get some info -any info. I called yesterday and found out that my donor is supposed to start AF around Oct. 29 so that’s tentatively when I’ll be starting the Lupron. Who knows – maybe we’ll end up on the same schedule and both be pregnant at the same time. It’s difficult when you are using a donor – having to coordinate the schedules of two people really makes things a little more complicated.
Yeah, call today and if they have no answer continue calling each day. Squeaky wheels work. Hoping none of your worst case scenarios are true.
Please call– just cal, call soon and gather information, you are not asking for the moon.
thinking of you and wishing on you a different and therefore fabulously fulfilling job.
xo
Kate
Yep. Make the call. Bug the hell out of them.
I would totally call. I’m impressed you made it this far! You must be one of their easier patients:-) Let us know what they say!
Yeah, make the call. No need to wait on something that may turn out to be a minor office snafu. Good luck on getting the library by the sea job. I’ll keep my hopes up for you.
Hope the call goes great.. Clinics really never get how hard it is to wait..
Hope that the reason they are not calling is they are putting together the pieces of a calendar for you..
Good for you – call their asses – looking forward to the update.
I always wonder why “health professionals” (of all people) have no concept of patients’ anxiety. I remember getting a voice mail on a Friday from the geneticist to “call back.” At. Like. 5 PM. WTF? I couldn’t get to them until Monday, which of course made me a raving lunatic all weekend thinking some horrid thing had happened to my baking baby. It was all fine on Monday. But what hell that doctor put me through. For NO reason! I’m sure all is fine with the donor. They probably just got back logged or the nurse went on vaca. Figures. Call them!
I’d call too! You have been patient!