IVF#4: Stim Day 8: Denver Day 3

Yesterday was amazing. We had such a great day. After coffee with a forum buddy, we drove up the Boulder to see baby W and his mommy and daddy. We had great time seeing them, as always. Then we drove into lower downtown Denver. We walked the 16th Street Mall area and had dinner in Larimar Sq. We started al fresco but had to move inside when the shade came. We enjoyed delicious Italian food at Osteria. Marco. It was a bit pricey but our window seats were awesome for people watching so that made it worth it. We finished out the evening snuggling and watching our netflix shows: Scrubs and Nip/Tuck. We really needed a day to recharge.

I'm riding this IVF rollercoaster and there have been many more lows than highs so far but I am open to the idea of that changing for me. I'd like to thank you all for continuing to 'share the love' with me. I can't tell you how helpful it is. Especially being so far from home.

So I went in today for another ultrasound/bloodwork appointment. Here are my measurements today, day 8 of stims:

• Left: (aka the quiet one) 1.50 cm; 1.02; 0.99; 0.75
• Right: (endometriomas) 1.56 cm; 1.23; 1.23; 1.14; 1.14; 0.90

Weird, huh? Where did the big one go? Seems like I get different measurements every day depending on where or who is measuring. I was expecting the 1.6 from Saturday to be a 2.0 by now. I give up trying to anticipate. My estrogen is still really low. We'll meet with Dr. Schoolie in a few hours to review our case so I'll add and update to this post later.

By the way, I never followed up since my post a number of weeks ago about choosing a nurse at CCRM. I was finally switched to Rhonda a few weeks back and I heart her. She is the perfect mix of efficient, communicative, and empathetic for me. I feel that I've lucked out. Her back up is Jill, who I also like. If you have issues with your nurse, I highly recommend the patient advocate and asking for a switch.

*** UPDATE ***

We met with Schoolie. His overall comment was that he was pleased at how things have become more even but that we'll likely have to let the biggest one go. He reiterated how poor of a responder I am and how expecting anything else would be expecting too much. So he wants to go forward and get what we can from this one. However, he predicts a long long timing stimming. So we are here for a week longer probably.

We got a lot of extra meds and we are going to go get comfortable for the remainder of our stay. Here's to hoping we have a decent result without 'expecting too much.

One note... the doc seems to think we have one less frostie then we think we do. So he said 4 frozen on day 2 and we insisted that 5 were frozen on day 2. We asked our nurse to follow up. Stay tuned. :-)

Thanks for all the love!!!