Here is my upcoming week:
Monday: work, babysit neighbors kids
Tuesday: work, therapy appointment
Wednesday: work, nutrition appointment, acupuncture appointment
Thursday: Ultrasound in the morning to see how many and the size of my eggs plus get an HSG shot to time my ovulation perfectly, work, watch Bears game, pack suitcase for tomorrow
Friday: IUI (artificial insemination), acupuncture appointment.................................................FLY TO SAN FRANCISCO!!!
Why? Because my husband has to go for work and therefore I need to go to in order to follow the IUI plan!! Our doctor recommends having "love" as he calls it 12-24 hours after the IUI procedure, so off to Cali I go. We asked if it was a big deal to skip that part and got a "look." So I took that as, somebody get me a plane ticket! I don't care if I'm sitting in the cargo hold! Just get me to San Fran! Okay some of you may be thinking, well sure you get to go on vacation, why wouldn't you go? But it took a lot of hours of planning to decide what the best action was. Would his boss let me come on the work trip? Would my boss approve a day off? Could we get flights later in the afternoon to have us leaving enough time for the IUI in the morning and get there in time for "love" at night? Could I get back in time to start work the next week? Mind you, we were discussing these plans TWO WEEKS before leaving. Flights two weeks beforehand are a pretty penny. So did we want to spend the money on the 10-20% chance the IUI would work or just move on to next month? After all the discussion, we decided to go for it. And if it fails again this month (third times a charm right??) then at least we got a nice little vacation out of it. And actually, I just realized that this could serve as our babymoon.... things are looking up!
As of now everything seems to be working out ok - bosses said yes, and got flights at great times for not terrible prices, but I am currently sitting outside of the reproductive endocrinology office at 6:25am so that I can get my ultrasound done first. BTW someone was already here when I got here, damnit, so now I'm second. I learned the hard way the first time when I showed up late and got ultrasound number 16, which got me to work pretty late both days I had to come here. So I'm hoping by being second this time I can still get the first IUI appointment tomorrow morning in order to get to my acupuncture appointment and to the airport! So I'm not in the clear yet but again, maybe third time's a charm....
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