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IUI 5.0

Posted in IUI #5 on August 10, 2006| Leave a Comment »

I am officially starting my fifth IUI cycle. I was supposed to start an IVF cycle if the fourth didn't work out, but I looked at my September calendar and realized I'd be in Phoenix for a critical week, so one more IUI it is. My poor husband.

It's kinda getting boring. I mean, I know the routine. I can practically self-medicate. I hardly even need the doctor to tell me what to do anymore. And the end-result (BFN) is just so darned predictable. There's got to be a way to make this all more interesting.

I know! We could make a drinking game out of it!

  • Time for an injection? Take a drink!
  • Time for an invasive ultrasound? Take another drink!
  • Abnormally obnoxious migraines? Take two drinks!
    Snapped at your husband for breathing too loud? Another drink for the lady!
  • BFN? Congratulations, you get to drink the whole bottle!
  • BFP?? Well, the makers of this game don't actually believe that BFPs exist, but if they did, I'm sorry, you'd be out of the game because you'd have to stop drinking all together, so hey! It sucks to be you! (er… I think my perspective may be skewed here)

Anyway, in other fun news going through another cycle is that I have a new, but slightly used, excuse to yell at my husband whenever I feel like it. "Oh, sorry, honey, it's the hormones, you know. Can't be helped."

It's fun to yell at him. Well, fun for me. I'm betting it's not fun for him. Okay, it's not really fun to yell at him, but it is hysterically funny after the fact when I look back and realize exactly how stupid I was being. Also, it's a tiny bit fun to have carte blanche to be evil and be able to blame it on all those darned hormones. "Gosh, Honey, I'm so sorry I called you that, but I'm the one who has to stab myself with needles every night, so you have to put up with it, okay?"

(I'm exaggerating, of course. I only yell at my husband when he deserves it. He just seems to deserve it more when I'm all hormonal and cycling… hrm. Nah, it couldn't just be me, could it? Nah, couldn't be… that's ridiculous!)

Ahem. And now back to your regularly scheduled life.

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CD1

Posted in failures, IUI #5 on August 9, 2006| 1 Comment »

Not that it's a shock or anything, but IUI number 4 failed. Today is Day one. That's slightly surprising, as it's a little early, but I can live with it. I called my nurse and left a message asking her to call in my script for BCPs so I can prepare for an IVF cycle. But now I'm being schizophrenic. I looked at my calendar and realized I have to be away for the second week of September (I'll be in Phoenix for training), and that could make things more difficult.

So when my nurse calls me, I'm going to apologize for being schizophrenic, and I'll ask if we can just do one more IUI cycle (which was the original plan anyway). I'm sure it will be fine, and I'll need to pick up more meds, but I can do that on Friday, when I'll have to be there for monitoring anyway, if we make this an IUI cycle.

Right. See, I had decided NOT to chicken out on the IVF cycle. I had decided to suck it up and deal with the PIO IM shots. I had decided to stop being a baby. I had decided that getting pregnant was more important than my irrational fears. And then my calendar got in the way anyway.

I'm not having fun anymore.

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