Ocean Dreamer

Just a quick update to let y’all know things are going well. My IVF has been great so far – no problems whatsoever. I did have to up my meds early on but that was the only small hickup. I was so worried about how it would go, how I would feel, etc., but it [...]

Things have been busy for the past few days, sorry for the lack of posts and comments on your blogs.  Briefly, here’s what I’ve been up to: A *ton* of teaching jobs were recently posted for next year and I have been applying like crazy.  It is a long process and I have to apply [...]

In my dreams, that is.  As an adult, I have always been someone who couldn’t remember her dreams.  At least, until I started taking the lovely birth control pills.  Now, I have very vivid dreams.  Apparently, BCPs are known (at least anecdotally) to cause vivid dreams and nightmares (I did find a link specifically about [...]

they arrived on Friday! Everything but the follistim (which must be refrigerated) takes up a full shelf in my medicine cabinet.  I start the lupron on Sunday.  Also, my insurance covered some of the meds!  That was a *huge* relief. And happy 100th post to me!  Since I just wrote a huge reflection on blog [...]

I have never had a fear of needles.  Getting allergy shots as a kid took care of that pretty quick.  Plus, I give my sweet dog Zoe allergy shots now.  As a (former) EMT, I also had to learn to give epipen injections.  So I’ve not only received shots, but also administered them. Now that [...]

Oh, birth control pills, never in my life did I think I would take you … yet I’ve now been on you for a week.  Even before I came out as a lesbian, I was not exactly promiscuous – I had one boyfriend, in eighth grade, and that was it.  So I never dreamed, even [...]

My dear aunt flo arrived this morning.  It came early, too, now that I’m not taking femara – my luteal phase was only ~9 days (one of the shortest  luteal phases I’ve ever had) and this cycle lasted only 20 days.  So, tomorrow, I have blood tests in the morning to recheck my FSH and [...]

Thanks so much for all your input on the IVF decisions.  Here’s what I’ve decided so far (subject to change, of course): 1 v. 2: I’m leaning towards transferring 2 and have been leaning this way for several days.  The tipping point was talking with a (queer) couple who had done IVF and transferred 2 [...]

Here’s a summary of what I learned about IVF both at my appointment on Monday and from what I’ve read from the clinic so far.  I’m writing this down to help organize my thoughts and solidify my understanding as well as to provide a bit of details and info to those of y’all who are [...]

when I said I only have two things to figure out – actually there are three.  The third is this: My clinic has several IVF plan options. – The first is the standard IVF – one IVF, they will freeze any remaining embryos (you pay for this separately), etc.  With all my procedures, it costs [...]