Ms DonorFantastica is fine.  Not overstimulated.  Not already-ovulated.  (Whew!) She’s going back on Thursday the 24th, likely to trigger that night. Saturday the 26th, she’s scheduled for retrieval. Tuesday the 29th I’m tentatively scheduled for transfer. (My clinic prefers 3-day transfers, even when things look spectacular.) Woo Damn Hoo!!!

Apparently my donor was unable to get in to the clinic this morning.  Stupid snow.  Hate the snow.  Horrible, awful, no-good snow.  She should be in tomorrow.  Shall be on tenterhooks til then…

Dear Ms. DonorFantastica, That’s not your name, but it’s what I call you in my mind.  I think about you a lot.   After all, I rather suspect you’re going to be genetically related to my child. My child. Wow. The longing for a child has pretty much consumed the last 8 years of my [...]

Dear Santa, This year I’ve been very very good.  I haven’t hit anyone, even when they really deserved it.  There was this one time that my boss gave me a hell of a lot of guff only two days after a D&C.  I didn’t even beat her up, and I totally could have, even when [...]

Appointment went well.  Lining is at 8.45mm, and looking good.  The only time I haven’t managed to get pregnant was when I had a <8mm lining at retrieval, so I’m pleased with this at this stage of the game. I should get an update on Ms DonorFantastica’s ovaries/follicles tomorrow, and at that time they may [...]

Not much to say today, I’m still in a holding pattern.  Estrogen is treating me gently, and while my half-assed attempts at “dieting” haven’t, you know, gotten rid of half of my ass, I haven’t gained weight on this Lupron-a-thon, so I’m feeling pretty good about that.  Tomorrow I should learn if my SuperOvaries are [...]

Not much happening on the reproductive front – I know, nothing new there – though I am pleased to note that the third bleed out of the cycle seems to have staunched itself without me having to resort to a tourniquet.  Which would have been tricksy, and I’m glad not to have to demonstrate my [...]

So I got a call yesterday from my nurse asking if I could switch my lining check from Friday to Thursday.  Absolutely yes.  Makes things easier at work, since I won’t have to call in late, and makes things easier on my brain, since it’s less time before I get an update on something.  Bad [...]

Riley over at It Takes a Village, Evidentally just had a fantastic transfer & freeze.  And since she and I been playing leap-frog over the course of our seemingly interminable donor cycles, I’m starting to feel a bit excited about my own cycle. Sort of. If I think about it too long I get scared, [...]

Ok, so any guys reading can just look away now if you’d like, because this is a post dealing with that most taboo of female/male subjects:  Blood.  Menstrual blood to be more specific, and a lot of it. Give me red meat.  Give me chocolate.  Give me something iron-filled to weight down my light-headedness.  Yowza, [...]