Wednesday, December 5, 2007

I Don't Have All The Answers..... Help!

Well, that was not one of the most unpleasant afternoons I have spent. So, I go in for my monitoring appointment this afternoon instead of morning because Dr. C wants to see me himself. He is the clinical director and does not do the morning rotations, so for him to see me I am bending like a pretzel to make it happen! Of course, last week he informs me he will be out of town from 12/9 through 12/18 and he wanted to let me know ahead of time. Well thanks so much for that. Lets see, won't be here for the retrieval or transfer. Just Great! I guess he feels guilty so he is making the effort to at least be here for me now which he wasn't last cycle. I never saw him for any monitoring appointments IVF #1 only at the transfer. So me and M go in at 1:15pm for bloodwork and a 1:30pm ultrasound. I am in the room ready to go at 1:30 and the clock keeps ticking. At 2:00pm M goes out to check and see whats up. Nurse M informs him he is running long with a consult it shouldn't be much longer. 2:10, 2:20pm and Dr. C pops his head in real quick and says he will be with me shortly. IT HAS BEEN 1 HOUR AND I AM COLD AND TIRED!!! At 2:30 we get the show on the road and of course, my follies this time have a mind of their own. Righty has a 13, 12 and four less than 10. Lefty has 19, 14, 10 and two less than ten. Dr. C. is estimating a retrieval on Sunday, 12/9 so he thinks the 19 will be hypermature and it is questionable for the 10, so that leaves me with a possible 3 follies. Because of this information, he has asked me to consider something new they just started doing. Basically, I would do 3 to 4 retrievals back to back until he gets 10 eggs to fertilize on day 1. After each retrieval they would freeze any embies that fertilize on day 1 on day 1. He says embies do alot better being frozen at this stage. After we have "banked" at least 10 eggs, they would thaw them out and let them contiue to grow until blast and hopefully transfer any and "ALL" we have. This many would be transferred due to my age (43). I am waiting to hear the cost on doing this. As I have no insurance. At my age though the risk of just getting 3 eggs-will they all be mature? (4 out of 6 last time were not, 2 fertilized with icsi, day 3 had 5 and 7 cell, day 5 had 1 early blast and the 5 cell quit growing-transferred 1 early blast). So I am just not sure which direction to go. I have to tell him by Friday what I want to do. It is so hard to hit these brick walls with small amounts of time to decide MAJOR things. I am the sort of person that normally needs time to think about something major. Just don't know what to do...............................

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