Infertility can drive a woman mad. I think I'm coming close to madness. I'm currently smack-dab in the middle of my first round of IVF. I've been stimmed, retrieved, fertilized, biopsied, and now frozen. Those darling eggs of mine. Here's the bullet points.
- Stim for one week, 20 units MicroLupron, 225iu's Bravelle, 75iu's Menapur.
- 12 eggs retrieved. This was 5 or so lower than my RE thought we would get. Sad face.
- 9 mature, 7 fertilized.
- 6 still hanging in there day 3. 4 8-celled, 1 7-celled, 1 6-celled.
- By day 6, only 3 make it to biopsy and freeze.
- Of those 3, 2 are "very good" quality, on is "not so good."
- CCS results will take 2 weeks. Expecting results 1/27.
So we wait. I have officially entered the land of the infertile. I am the only gay woman that I've seen on all of the infertility boards. I'm the only lesbian I've seen that has had 3 miscarriages. I'm devastated by this process, and it's hard to just keep it together.
So that's me, where I am. In between madness and hope.
