Positive

Today we got the fantastic news that we are pregnant. Today was the pregnancy test, however I knew that I could also take a home pregnancy test and was planning on taking one before we left for my doctor appointment. So last night I went to bed around 10 pm, at 11 pm I woke up and went back to sleep, at midnight I woke up and went back to sleep, finally at 1 am I woke up and said to myself, "Well, I have to pee pretty bad, might as well take the test now." So I got up, took the test and finished up, by the time I was done washing my hands the test was showing a positive result. So I got back into bed and woke Kevin up and said, "We're pregnant!!" This woke him up out of a dead sleep and woke him up for the rest of the night. Maybe I should use this technique every morning to wake him up. Probably only works once, darn.

I went back to bed after texting family, I probably got back to sleep around 3 am. At 5:30 I woke up to get ready for my doctor's appointment and we left the house at 6:15, we got to the doctor's right on time for my 7 am appointment and after having my blood taken we were out of there by 7:05 am.

Poor Davy, we woke him up early and took him with us because he had a 9:45 doctor's appointment as well. He is a little under the weather with a cold and he got his last two shots until kindergarten. We got the call from my doctor's office at 1 pm today to let us know that we are indeed pregnant! Yay!!

Testing

Tomorrow is the day I have my pregnancy test. I am really excited and nervous. So much so I had dreams about it last night, I dreamt that I took a home pregnancy test and it came out positive. Hopefully it is a good dream and will come true tomorrow.

Davy was sick last night we will see how he is doing this morning. But there is a good chance he is staying home from church. Poor little guy. Today should be a bit crazy.

Poems and Cancer

Tonight I have been working on my computer, it pretty much crashed earlier today and we had to do a system reset to a past date when it worked. Then I scanned it and scanned it and tried to make sure to get rid of anything that might cause the problem again. While waiting I saw my old poetry journal that I made for myself when I was in college. It goes through the first few years of our marriage together, near the end it has one or two poems from our fourth and fifth year of marriage but mostly it holds poems from the first, second and third years of marriage. Wow, what a reminder. At first all the poems are mostly angsty little musings of a very young adult. I was 20 and still had memories of high school fresh in my mind and I was part of a writer's group where we pretty much spent a good amount of time reminiscing about how much public school sucked. The anger and love sick newlywed poetry leads very easily into the harsh cancer poetry. Those poems were such a sharp reminder. It has really been quite a long time since those days, but reading those poems brought it back so clearly. I am so glad that those days are behind me. I mean I wrote some fantastic poetry, but they were so rough on me. It has really been quite a while since I blogged like this. I really miss it, the whole voiding of the mind in the quiet times of the day. I really need to find times to do more of it. Especially now that I have "bed rest". I hate having nothing to do, I waste so much time. Anyway, it is getting late and both boys and both dogs are asleep so it is probably time for me to haul Kevin off the couch and into bed and haul myself there too.

Transfer

I know it has been a few days, I have been on bed rest but it is really no excuse. Pretty much good news all around. We had the five embryos and one of them stopped dividing, but the remaining four all made it to blastocyst, which means that they were in the best condition for surviving. We transferred two of them and froze the remaining two. How glad I am of our Flex Spending Account, it allowed us to afford the $850 cost of freezing the embryos. I am currently on that ten day wait to the pregnancy test. I still get the progesterone shots which Kevin gets to give me in my backside. We are very much hoping and praying for a positive pregnancy test next Monday.

Tomorrow is the day

Tomorrow we have the embryo transfer at 10:20 am, I talked to the embryologist today and two of the embryos are compacted and hopefully will be in blastocyst by tomorrow, which means they will be in prime condition to be transferred. The remaining three are still dividing and looking ok, I am hoping that they all make it to being frozen. That would give us three more chances at having kids from this IVF cycle. Right now I just hope it all works out ok.

Embryo update

Just got my call for today on the embryos, they are looking good and are dividing, they have set my embryo transfer date for Friday. This means that the embryos that they transfer will be day five embryos, which according to my doctor are more aggressive. Kevin and I are just hoping that everything goes well and that we are able to freeze some of the embryos as well as get pregnant from this transfer. Lots of prayers.

Embryos

Got my update just now, out of the 15 eggs they were able to fertilize 12, out of the 12 only 5 made it to embryo. We will see how many of that 5 actually survive. We will be transferring the two best looking ones and will be freezing any others that make it to the freezable status.