Period Arrives! Cycle Day (CD) 2

Yesterday my period arrived and I was super excited. M and I even gave each other a high five because this is the official start of the IVF cycle. I called the fertility clinic to let them know of my period start day, but no one answered! I was so frustrated! I called during business hours but kept reaching the 'after hours' line. Arrrrrrrgh. I left voicemail for the pool of nurses and for Nurse S. No one called me back yesterday.

So today I woke up knowing the clinic is only open from 7-11am - I called at 8:30, same after hours line! Poop! I was NOT going to let their responsiveness affect my first cycle, so I emailed Doctor O and let him know I had not heard from anyone and was now on cycle day 2. Shortly after the email, Nurse L called and scheduled me an appointment for tomorrow Sunday at 8:45am. They will do a vaginal ultrasound to measure how many follicles I have on my ovaries, what size they are, what my uterine lining looks like, as well as do a blood panel to check for my estrogen levels, my TSH, LH levels and make sure nothing looks out of sorts. If all goes well, I will start taking the suppresion hormones (BCP) starting tomorrow night. (omg!!!! this is it!)

Shortly after the BCP are the first injections of Lupron, so we also have scheduled our needle class for 1-2 to make sure we know how to stick me! I've been watching tons of videos and reading the needle manuals though. I separated all of my needles and meds into plastic bags and labeled them all. I don't know how we're going to manage all of the injections with all of our work, school, acupuncture, therapy and kid obligations, but we'll have to manage.

In other news, M got me the cutest baby slippers for Christmas. They are in the shape of flippers, are light sage green and the left one says "flipper", the right one says "slippers". It's the cutest thing, and I almost cried when I saw it. We hung them on our large kitchen magnet board so we can see it every day and "keep our eye on the ball" as it were.

Since my period came 6 days sooner than they had projected, I need to get an updated IVF schedule as well.

Next Steps
-Blood work and ultrasound tomorrow 12/30
-Start BCP tomorrow 12/30
-Needle Class on 1/2