Just received a phone call from sister and her doctor seems to think that I'm having the same issues as my sister and he hasn't even gotten my blood results, heck I haven't even had them taken yet because I haven't started my period yet. They can't do the blood work until the third day of my cycle, how can you come up with this conclusion. You can just go off a few blood results and some ultrasound and come to the conclusion that I have conception problems.
I want this doctor to tell me how come on got pregnant so quickly? Tell me why I got pregnant twice within 5 months of each other? Tell me how I have my precious little boy? The doctor is suppose to give me a call this afternoon, I will also be speaking with my doctor and will let you all know what they have to say.
This is seriously insane and makes no sense. I wonder what his excuse is going to be next when we do get the blood results back and they are normal.
My sister and I and are husband have been going through a lot these last few months. As you all know my sister can not get pregnant on her own due to her thyroid disease and the anti-ovarian antibodies in her blood stream. We were suppose to have egg retrieval on Monday, but unfortunately I did not respond to any medicine. This could be due to a lot of factors. First thing is they need to rule out that I'm not starting to have the same issues as my sister. So once those blood test come back normal, we will try again. It also could have been just a fluke thing, bad batch of medicine, medicine not absorbing into my blood stream due to lack of fat on my body or I ovulated on my own. After speaking with my doctor she agrees that I'm very healthy and have no issues with irregular cycles and that it was a fluke thing.
This next time around I will inject the medicine into my stomach instead of my thigh due to the muscle in my thigh. I was bruising a lot, so the doctor thinks that I could have been injecting it into the muscle instead of fat.
I'm not going to lie, I was extremely heartbroken (and cried for days). But not for me, for my sister. I want this so badly to happen for them. But I have total faith in God and know he will take care of us and in the end this will work.
Had my first sono and blood work done yesterday. The sono look great, the doctor was really happy with the result. They are still waiting for the blood work to get back. Yesterday they took nine big tubes of blood from me. I felt like I was going to faint after the fifth one, I didn't know I had that much blood in my body!
I'm still on my lupron shots and I start the other three shots this Friday. So I will be taking three shots in the morning and one in the evening. Sometime between the 25-28 they will retrieve the eggs. I have another sono and blood work on the 22nd of July and that should have a good idea when they are ready for egg retrieval.
So excited for my sister and Tim! I love my sister! She is the one person in this world, next to my husband, God and my family who's opinion really matters to me. I know that she will always be there for me no matter the situation!
Please keep us in your prayers these next two weeks!!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
This Friday is when I get to start sticking myself with needles. Not going to lie, I was a little overwhelmed when all the medicine arrived last week. Lots of needles and lots of medicine. I can’t even describe the feelings that are going through my head. Mostly feelings that I just want this to work for my sister! I have to keep having faith in God and know he will take care of her! She is very special to me and I know she would do the same for me and Dustin.
I received my calendar last week and also started taking my birth control to help regulate me on Brandi’s cycle. I should get my medicine for the shots this Friday and then July 3 is when I have to start giving myself shots with Dustin’s help since two of them have to be given to me in my lower back. We are still on for July 27th or 28th for the egg retrieval. Once they retrieve the eggs the doctors will do their magic and then place them in my sister three days later.
I can’t even express how much a want this to work for my sister. I have total faith in God that he will take care of all us. She means the absolute world to be. Words can’t express how much a love her! I just ask everyone to keep praying for us, it really does mean a lot.
Good News! Looks like we will still stay on the same schedule for the egg retrieval which will happen around July 27th. Today they took my IUD out and has soon I start my cycle I will be put on birth control for a month and start taking my Lupron shots. Then in July I will start taking the other two hormone shots to help over stimulate my ovaries and by the end of July they should be able to retrieve the eggs and then implant them in my sister.
Just found out yesterday that they are going to have to take my IUD out during this process. I'm on the Mirena and absolutely love it. But Brandi's doctor said it has to come out for a few months because he thinks it won't let me make a lot of eggs and the goal is to make as many at possible.
I kind of figured this would have to take place since it is releasing a small amount of hormone. Now I'm just waiting to hear from my doctor about how the insurance will cover to have another one replaced. I have really great insurance and it covered the first 100 percent, I know amazing! She thinks she can justify it and have it covered again that way my sister doesn't have to pay the full cost to have another put in me and trust me I'm getting another one put in because taking a pill everyday would not happen. Since Dustin and I don't want to have another one for 3 or 4 more years, we don't want any accidents happening.
Don't get me wrong I love being a mommy but we want Thomas to have his time with mommy and daddy without turning his world upside down with a little sister...HA! Plus I really want to concentrate on my career for a couple of years. But don't worry we will have another one just not anytime soon!
The downfall is this sets mys sister back a couple of months. So more than likely they won't be retrieving the eggs from me until August or September. Please keep praying for us!
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