Chapter 11: 3rd appt for the week and finally, next steps

Y'all are witness to the fact that I left off last night saying that I was C A L M - right?

Apparently, my mind, body, and soul don't like to agree with me. Maybe I just don't know how to determine the proper feelings I'm having? I thought I had a pretty good handle on it but guess not. I slept extremely restlessly last night, kept waking up. Yet I'm not tired. That could be from emotions running high while I try to suppress them. Who knows.

I woke at 6:30 AM for my 7:15 AM appointment aka 30 minutes later than what I had set my alarm for. I jumped out of bed, took a quick shower, and flew out the door. Hubby wasn't able to come with me for the appointment (or rather, to wait in the car) after all. I was a little bummed but knowing that he won't be allowed in makes me feel better that he didn't have to sit idle in the car. I got my third blood test done in the past week and a half, and also third ultrasound. The follicle that the doctor saw growing slowly was FINALLY alhumdulillah nice and big and plump, ready for the picking. Or that's what it seemed like to me as I looked at it on the screen, at least. If it was the same one as the one I had seen on Wednesday, this looked 3x the size. Fascinating what these meds can do in there...

My doctor told me I could trigger with Ovidrel tonight. We have scheduled our IUI for Sunday morning, two appointments: one at 8 AM for my husband, and 9 AM for myself. My nurse just called me though and told me that my endometrial lining looks thin which means more meds :( I'm not thrilled but if this works, Lord I will be. So I have to start one Estrace tablet twice a day today, and then add in one Prometrium tablet twice a day starting Sunday. Guys, I didn't even know vaginal tablets were a thing until I had to start seeing my RE. This is nutso. I have so many questions about how to stick it in, how it stays in, and exactly what am I supposed to even feel. So bizarre. Guess I will be doing some more YouTubing and reading or blog posts for the next several hours, until the medicine is ready to be picked up from the pharmacy.

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We went to Target around 6 PM to grab the Estrace plus some staple grocery items that we ran out of, checked out, made it home, only to get a call from the CVS inside Target that we had left to Rx in the cart. I panicked but could not help laughing. Of course we would grab the juice and eggs and milk, but leave behind the most important thing. My dear, sweet husband put away all the groceries, did the dishes, cleaned up the dishes in the sink, and then went back to Target to grab it before the pharmacy closed. Today was the last day of school, so quarter 4 grades were also do which I had not finished yet so he let me focus on work while he wrapped things up around the house.

We just did the trigger shot at 8:45 PM. It was less painful than both of the Gonal-F shots and even of those, only the second one hurt some. I barely felt this one. Granted, we read up on it first and many people had said to let it rest at room temperature for 30 minutes or so after taking it out of the refrigerator, prior to injecting it, so that may have been the reason why.

And now it's time to go figure out how to take this Estrace. I'm not excited but I'm sure the lining will be happy, so might as well give it a go. Wish me luck.