Well they've probably been set since 8/31, but I didn't think to check online until today. Everything is online - I can graph my blood pressure, weight, hcg levels over the last 2 years, etc. Anyhow my appts were for 8:00 am on October 1 with the nurse (she'll give me my bottles of Lupron then), October 15 at 8:00 am for b/w and u/s, and arrive at 12:00 pm on November 1 for a 1:00 transfer. November 1 is a Thursday which is usually a day I don't teach, but I will need a substitute for November 2 anyhow since I am supposed to be on bedrest for 24 hours (I teach on Fridays from 8:00-10:50am). The problem is that my appointments on October 1 and October 15 are during my class time. I don't teach Tu/Th mornings, but naturally my appointments are on Mondays. This is why I know doing IVF during a school year would be so difficult (although actually next semester I am not teaching in the mornings). So I just called and asked if at least my Oct 1 appointment could be pushed back since it's just an appointment with the nurse (no b/w or u/s). Thankfully they agreed to push it back to 11:30 which I can do if I go right after my class is over at 10:50 (then I'll come back on campus as I have office hours in the afternoon and teach again from 5:00-8:00pm on Mondays and Wednesdays). I am not sure if my appt on October 15 can be moved. I will ask when I am there on October 1; I am guessing they can't push it back time wise, but I plan to ask if it could be on October 16 instead. There will be one more appointment in there - probably October 29. However I figure the "worst case scenario" is that I'll miss my 8:00 class 3 times and my 9:00 and 10:00 classes 1 time. I have already rearranged my schedule so that I am giving an exam on Nov 2 so my Graduate Assistant can just proctor the exams on that day to the 3 classes which is no big deal. And maybe just maybe I can get my other appts to be in the afternoon OR on Tuesday instead. We shall see, but at least I got my first appointment pushed back.
I have to say I have not been feeling well emotionally or physically the last couple of days. I think it's a combination of factors including working really long hours (getting home at 8pm or later every night the last 3 nights from work), being on the bcp (it really goofs me up hormonally & emotionally - I remember this happening most recently in June when I was on bcp in prep for ivf), and a flood of pgcy/adoption news in the last 3 weeks (since finding out the ivf didn't work). As I have mentioned, a nursing prof on my hall is pg. On August 27 a woman in handbells announced her pgcy. She got married 2 years ago and wanted to start ttc fairly soon (she's in her late 20's) but her dh wanted them to be married 2 years before they started ttc. I had a conversation with her in the spring in which she was saying how frustrated she was with wanting to start ttc but her dh insisting she stay on the pill. I could relate as I wanted to start ttc sooner than we did (I'm very glad Paul didn't insist we wait 2 years although of course we were older than they are). Well anyhow obviously getting pg was very easy for them. Of course I am happy for them; I wouldn't want anyone to go through what we have of ttc over 5 years and still no children (except the ones in Heaven plus the one soon to be transferred). And as one more example, this morning I got an email from a friend I met on an adoption discussion board. She adopted a little girl from China a year or two ago (her daughter is now 3 years old); well the end of August one of her friends whose teenage daughter was pg with twin boys asked if they wanted to adopt the twins. Yesterday the twin boys were born so their daughter now has two younger brothers. Again this is VERY happy news, but it sort of blows me away that for some people an adoption seemingly falls in their laps. Most people have to invest a fair amount of time, money, and energy into trying to adopt. That's the norm; this experience Mel is having of a super quick, simple, inexpensive adoption is very rare. On the other hand our experience is not the norm either, although I do know other families for whom their adoption journey was 2-3 years or longer. We aren't the only ones. Well hopefully our story will have a happy ending in 2008. Of course I've said that every year for five years now...
While I was typing the RE receptionist called me back twice. First she called to say that Paul and I need to sign consents on Oct 1 with the RE so 11:30 won't work (when were they going to tell us that Paul also needed to be there???). So we scheduled it for 8:30 on October 2 instead which is fine as I don't teach on Tuesday morning and Paul doesn't have class then either. Then she called back again to say that the RE is in surgery that day so that won't work. So we rescheduled it again for September 27 at 9:00 for Paul and I which again is fine as it's a Thursday. Whew that became a complicated task! I am glad though that neither Paul nor I need to miss class just to sign a piece of paper and be handed a vial or two of Lupron. This means I need to pay the $2,250 by September 26. For most people their first FET appt does involve b/w (to check P4 levels to make sure ovulation has occured). However since I am on bcp no b/w is needed which also means it doesn't really matter what day the appt is (as normally it's supposed to be on cd21).
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