PEAK!

I love it when my ovaries save me $150.

I got a peak on my OPK! That means that I can save myself the $20 copay for the ultrasound, on top of the $130 for the HCG shot. (Sidenote: Not sure that I blogged about the fact that my insurance company won't pay for the shot until I've paid $3000 out of pocket in a year - and it starts over again in January.)

So today's Day 14.

R1's ready to do his best rabbit impersonation over the next few days. I have more of a reason to want to get pregnant this month than normal... If I do get pregnant, I won't have to have surgery this month.

That's quite an incentive in itself.

"He's here to hold you down."

Today was my sonohystogram. Before the RE even came into the room, the ultrasound tech took a few pics of my innards to be sure that they're still all there. Cause really, wouldn't it be embarrassing if the RE came in to check out my uterus only to find that I no longer have one?

Ahem.

My RE walked in with Doctor Hunky, a doc-in-training, behind him. Doctor Hunky and I met at my last appointment. My RE re-introduced me to Doctor Hunky and told me that he was there to hold me down.

I told my RE that his bedside manner sucked.

I love that my RE jokes with me and that I can joke back.

So on went the sonohystogram. It started like a pap, with the hardware that he spins to open, etc. Then he squirted water and dye into my innards, and unspun the hardware. Then in went the camera thingy (I believe "camera thingy" is indeed the technical term) with the condom on it.

It was quick and fairly painless (until the cramping started, of course). Afterward, Doctor Hunky helped me to sit up, and my RE showed me the alien growth on the inside of my uterine wall. He said that it has to come out. I asked what it was, and he said that it's probably just a fibroid. I asked what the chances were that it's more than that, and he said he won't know until it's out and they can run tests on it.

He also told me that I can still try to get pregnant this cycle and next, but that he thinks that the alien growth might stop a pregnancy from taking place.

My surgery is scheduled for November 25. It's an all-out surgery, complete with knocking me out. I am nervous. Very nervous.

So between now and then, I sit back, relax, try to get pregnant, and try not to worry about what it might or might not be.

...I wonder how that *not worrying* business is gonna work.

She's here.

AF arrived early this morning.

Here's to next month.

Edited to add: Scheduled a sonohistogram next Monday, and my CD16 ultrasound for 11/3. Learned that I don't have to wait a cycle after all - we can try this cycle, even though with the procedure(s).

...but upward first?

Temp went back up today. But I still feel like I do every month when AF is on the front porch.

Stay tuned.

Onward and downward.

Temp took a dive today - only to the coverline, not lower as is normal the day before AF... But it was enough to push me to take an HPT that's been calling my name for a while.

Could it have been a false negative? Sure, I guess so... If the HCG from the shot was out of my system, and my body just hasn't produced enough HCG on it's own to register on the peestick yet. R1 thinks that I shouldn't have tested, and still wants me to test on Wednesday. But chances are AF will be here by then and a test will be pointless. Time will tell, I suppose.

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So I'm looking on to next month, or the month after. I'm not sure we'll be able to try next month, because I have to have the polyp in my uterus studied/removed. I'm not sure what the procedure will do to me, or how far it will set back my quest.

Guess it's time to fill that Femara prescription.