Up in the air

I now have one lovely 20mm, with all other follies much smaller. I am waiting now to hear if our IUI will be tomorrow or Saturday based on my LH levels. ::tap, tap, tap:: I hate waiting.

Blast from the Past...

Elysian Lobby Chandie (love!)

S and I had a lovely time in the city last weekend, as I wrote about here.

Funny thing though, when we went to the Elysian for dessert and caps, we ran into an old friend of mine, who is the GM at their restaurant, Ria.

B is my age and was the GM at North Pond Restaurant when I was a hostess there (& lived across the street) in 2003. I was working in consulting by day and hostessing every night to pay for having moved back to Boston in 2002 to work in non-profit development (oh the joyful first few years out of college). We got along very well (he’s a political junkie like me, and a former Hill staffer), but our main connection, besides him being my boss, was that he was the childhood best friend and roommate of my boyfriend at the time (who besides being an actor, was also the bartender at NP). So incestuous and stereotypical, I know.

I left NP later in 2003 to go to law school (which I ended up changing my mind about, unfortunately only after having taken the LSAT). He left at the same time to go to grad school in Madison. A (the bf) and I dated well into 2004, when I realized I needed to get my shit together, we took “a break”, I went from contractor to FT at the consulting firm, and I had a disastrous long distance relationship with a guy I met at my 5 year college reunion. Anywho, so things with the bf didn’t end the way he wanted and the last time I saw either of them (after spending ridiculous amounts of time w/them at work and at their coach house) was around the time I met S. So it was a little strange to introduce him to my husband, though it has been six years...

But he was very gracious and I will likely reach out to him (at some point) to see how A is doing and for help finding S’s brother V a job in the industry when we eventually get him a visa to come over from Dubai (where he manages catering at the Le Meridien Hotel).

Turning it up

Just heard back from the Dr. that she wants me to up my Follistim dose to 100IU/day for tonight and tomorrow and return on Thursday for my next u/s. By then I should be ready to trigger and then have my IUI on Saturday. I am so freaking excited! :)

Follie update

My u/s this morning went well (I was in and out in 15 mins. w/bw!). I have one dominant follie (a 15mm) and quite a few others in the 6-9mm range. This is good! But I'm not quite ready yet. Waiting to hear back from the Dr. on what she wants to do, probably a bit more stimming (I'm on day 7 of stims) and when to trigger. Have appts. for the next two mornings, but I may have to go downtown on Sat. am if that is when my IUI falls, which is not a big deal. More to come... :)

No go

Nothing is a sure thing anymore... The acu/fertility study that I supposedly was "chosen" for has just notified me that I will not be a part of this study wave. For background, I wrote about it here and here and here. My guess is that they were put off by the 50 pages of medical records that I sent to them after my consult. Or maybe they think I'm on the cusp of a breakthrough and don't want to bias their data. ;)

Mint.com

If you haven't yet, I highly recommend you check out Mint.com. It is a great (free!) money management website that I wanted to start using long ago, but unfortunately our credit union did not link to the site. That is until recently. Now I have all our bank accounts, most of our loans, investments, and our credit cards linked up to the site. You can set up e-mails to remind you to make payments, budgets for individual categories, track spending, etc., etc. It's a very easy way to look at all of your money in one place. Happy Minting! :)

Good feeling/feeling good this cycle

I have a good feeling this cycle. Maybe because I feel so good. I am amazed (especially after the latest Clomid debacle) at how good I feel on the Follistim. I'm on a low dose (50IU), which may be why I'm not having any s/e, but it is working. I already have four follies (more than on either of my previous medicated cycles) without the crummy Clomid s/e. I go in tomorrow morning for my next u/s, and they think I might be ready to trigger (it'll only be CD 10). So my IUI could be as early as Thursday (CD12), unless I'm not quite ready and need to stim more (or heaven forbid I have too many). I also didn't have any s/e on the Crinone last cycle, which I will be taking again in the 2ww.

I am prepared to fail. You get good at this when dealing with IF as long as I have been. But I just have a good feeling that even if we are not successful this month, we are getting closer. :)