Unexpected Turn

Dr. Jarrett decided that we would go forward. His plan: insemination. IVF wouldn't be worth the chance because I only had one egg and the chance of it surviving retrieval and fertilzing would be zero. I was instructed to take ganirelex Friday night and Saturday morning. Saturday morning I got up at dawn and was at the clinic by 7:10 a.m. I had an ultrasound done and blood work. Still only one egg. After my appt I went home awaiting word on what next. While trying to have a normal morning with my family it came to mind that I took the wrong drug. Instead of the ganirelex I took the ovrideal. That throw me in a frinzy. I called Linda and she called the doctor right away. He said that was ok since we only had one egg but insemination was going to have to happen on Sunday. Ganirelex is the drug that stops eggs from dropping, ovrideal is the drug that makes them drop. So it could have been really bad if I had 10 eggs but with just one it wasn't such a big deal.

On Sunday Brad and I got up at 7:00 a.m. and then took Lauren to Bill and Rita's. We got to Carle around 9ish. They did the preparation and at 10:00 the insemination took place. I will have blood drawn on Monday the 31st. That test will tell us if an egg was fertilized. On Monday the 7th I will have a pregnancy test done.

I really feel like this is it. If pregnancy doesn't happen I think I'm stopping. It's possible that I will want to retry again sometime down the road but right now, I'm done!