U/S report

Well I had b/w and an u/s this morning. I will get the b/w results in 3-4 hours as well as the instructions as to when to come in next (probably Friday) and what dosage my meds should be the next couple of days. The u/s was done by an u/s tech since Dr. A is away. I could tell she was struggling to find my left ovary, and I said to her - my left ovary is always hard to find. She laughed and said I must have done this a lot if I know that about myself, LOL. She said well your left ovary isn't THAT hard to find (compared to some other patients). But it is harder to find than my right ovary. I figure I've had at least 60 u/s in the past 4 years. Well the good news is that the follie sizes are right on track. I have lots of them on both ovaries but none are huge yet - which is good. Sometimes that can be a problem with IVF that a few take off and grow much faster than the rest. My biggest follies were 9 or 10mm on both ovaries. I can tell quite a few are growing though as I am feeling a lot of pressure on both ovaries. She only measured about 6-7 follicles, but I could see many more on the screen. The nurse will give the b/w and u/s results to Dr. Gell (in Wilkes Barre) and she'll then make the decisions as far as my dosages as well as when I should come in next.

I emailed Cathy M last night to make sure she got our package that I mailed on July 7 as I hadn't heard from her since. She called back while I was out last night, and when I called her back about 8:15pm (she's in CA so it was only 5:15 there) she was on the other line and said she'd call me back tomorrow. She did email me though and said that overall she really liked our profiles and just had some minor suggestions of changes to make before we make the next set of 30 profiles. She said she's been really busy - lots of babies born lately (which is good!). She had one born Saturday, another born yesterday, etc. and even two on the same day within the last 2 weeks. I told her we were pet sitting this week (Paul's nephew's hamster, Bubba, and Paul's parents' dog, Fergie), and we are going to take pictures of Paul with Fergie and replace the picture of Paul playing chess in the profile since likely a young woman will relate more to a dog than chess. Also, Paul and I had talked about going miniature golfing this weekend so maybe I'll have him take one of me holding my golf club and might replace one of my photos with that shot. So anyhow we'll make a few changes (hopefully for the better) before we run off the next 30 copies of the profile. But I was pleased that she thought our profile was "quite good" (to use her words).

In the grand scheme of things this is a MINOR prayer request, but I have been praying that if possible my egg retrieval next week could be on any day except for Monday or Wednesday. By the size of my follies today I am sure it won't be Monday. If I can have it on Tuesday or Thursday (which are very likely possibilites - I doubt it would be later than that), then I wouldn't have to miss any school. Of course I will miss school if necessary, but my class only meets a grand total of 12 times (3 hours and 20 minutes each time) this summer so missing one class is a bigger deal than normal. Again in the big picture this is really not very important, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask! I'll post again later today after I get my b/w results.