ChezPerky

I’m unique.  That’s what I am.  A very, very special snowflake.

Apparently, my nurse has never seen the clinic allow someone with such a clearly dominant single follicle push through a cycle.  They always cancel and/or convert to IUI.

But not me.  They’re letting me push through.  SuperNurse said she’s really excited because she’s always been curious to see what would happen if someone pushed through a cycle with a single dominant follicle, but multiple smaller follicles.

I don’t like being the exception.  It does not give me warm fuzzies; it makes me nervous.  I think I might cry.

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…for IUI.  That’s what I am.  When I was doing IUI cycles, I was nearly always a perfect candidate for IVF.  I had lots and lots and lots of follicles and rarely a dominant follicle.  Now that I’ve been doing these IVF cycles, I am having a hard time growing follicles, but I nearly always have a dominant follicle.

Seriously, I asked SuperDoc, what is up with that? “Well,”  he responded patiently, as if he was talking to a second grader, “we’ve seen your ovaries go through this transition of sorts.  And ironically -”

“Should we consider converting to IUI?”

“Well, it’s certainly an option, but as long as your other follicles are still growing, we’re just going to ignore that perfect, enormous, dominant follicle of yours.”

On Sunday I had a 15mm follicle and 13 other follicles.

Today I have a perfect 18mm follicle and 4 other viable follicles and 2 other tiny, itty bitty, teeny weeny, wimpy little stragglers that, well, they’re a little embarrassing, frankly.  But we’ll count them.   For a total of 7 (but really… 5, if we’re being totally honest here – and let’s not forget the fact that we’re going to lose that 18mm one because it’ll be overmature come retrieval time, so we’re actually looking at probably…4).

Yeah.

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