Humpty Dumpty

 The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ~ Arnold Glasgow

This morning, I finally had a break from work to leave a message with my donor coordinator to call me back. I made sure that I mentioned the fact that I had emailed her in December and never heard back, so I wanted to touch base and make sure that everything was still on track. Her voice mail said that she would be out of the office today, but what do ya know...she returned my call. Right when I was in the middle of taking care of one of my own patients. Awesome.

The reason I have not heard back from her yet was because we are doing a split cycle and she was waiting for another couple to pick our donor. A courtesy email to let me know this would have been nice, but whatevs. I guess I called at the right time because another couple just chose our first pick yesterday! Score!!!

She said that the next step is for our Donor to come in over the next few weeks and have her final screenings done for cystic fibrosis, etc. Our nurse will be notifying our Donor so that these appointments can be set up.

She wants me to call when I start my next period. At that time, I will start my testing/sonograms and she will start coordinating my cycle with the Donor's cycle and the other couple's cycle. The entire cycle should take around 3 months once we get started. Since I was busy at work, I didn't get a chance to ask her any specifics. I'm assuming that if all goes well, a tentative transfer will happen around May/June of this year. Right around our 10 year anniversary. This could turn out to be the best or worst anniversary we've ever had. Gulp.

I'm so excited...and scared to death. I'm having flashbacks of all the negativity that came along with my other IVF cycles. I just wish I could be normal and not have to plan my life around something that the majority gets hassle free! I'm trying not to be stressed out, but this is the last possible chance I have at carrying a child on my own. We have too much invested in this to remain calm and collected.

Maybe if she gave me some boiled eggs I would have a little bounce if I fell off that wall. Hard boiled.

Even Stick People Can Get Pregnant

I don't know why, but this cartoon literally makes me laugh-out-loud.


However, I got behind every infertile's pet peeve the other day...

Really? Not funny.

I think that all of these stick people just need to get fixed.

This T-Shirt is Pretty Much Awesome Thursday

I haven't done this in awhile, so I thought that I would get everyone's day off to a kickstart with a good old fashioned beaver paddle.

It's been over a week, and our donor coordinator has yet to respond to my email. I was perfectly content to play the waiting game until around April. Now that we've submitted our choices a heck of a lot earlier than we ever expected to, I'm starting to get stressed! I figured that an email would be easier than having to call and drill her with a million questions. I think that I've paid them enough money to at least give me the courtesy of replying to my email, so I guess I'm going to have to get down to business and resort to being one of "those patients". 

I think she made an achy-breaky-bad-mistakey.