Adaptability

I always thought of myself as pretty adaptable, easy going, and able to adjust to unscheduled events. James on the other hand thinks that I am nuts, and he is probably right. One of the biggest things I have learned through this whole thing is that I really don't like surprises, unless I know for sure they will be good. I like surprise parties, and especially surprise gifts, but I do not like not knowing what is going to happen or when something is going to happen. Every day or two I have to stop at the doctors office on my way into work for more labs, and more super fun ultrasounds. Each day they check my estradiol levels and the growth of my follies, well today I have potentially 8 that they can try to make embryos from. This is good news for me, especially when a few days ago I was convinced there would only be one. So after I am done at the office I continue my way into work. Then my day goes like this, try to stay really busy to pass the time before the office calls. I really don't like to wait for anything (this I did know about myself). Then eat lunch, wonder if they are going to call and then back to busy work. Well today they didn't call, and I waited and waited. I was getting really worried that something had happened and they just didn't want to tell me. I waited until 3pm and finally broke down and called their office. Silly me, I was not thinking that this is the start of the IVF week and they are super busy. Turns out they just had not read my test yet. So about 30 min later the office calls to say everything looks good. Then I start in with the questions. I am not very good about asking questions when it comes to my doctors, so this was a big deal. I wanted to know everything. Were my levels good, is everything progressing the way it should, when will they tell me to do the trigger shot . . . ? The poor nurse probably thought I was nuts, why would I not ask these questions before? So anyway everything looks really good. They are not concerned that my estradiol number didn't jump very high compared to before, and my meds will stay the same. I hopefully will continue to have my follies grow, and I actually get a day off. I get to go back in on Wednesday and we will see how I am progressing. The way it looks now, I will either trigger on Wednesday or Thursday. Which means that retrieval day will either be Friday or Saturday. This is good news for me and for James. If we go on Saturday he will not have to take a day off work, which is good because he has only been at his job for a little while. Also, I don't have to worry about how I am going to be feeling after the retrieval, so I don't have to worry about missing much work. The whole process is going fine from what I can tell. I have been doing a lot of reading to see how other women have been doing as they go through this, and from what I can tell I am pretty much on par. I don't really get stressed about any of it, but waiting and not know the progression of things is really a growing experience for me. I guess you never stop learning or growing. Hopefully when we are all done with this James will be able to say that I am adaptable. Well . . . probably not, but maybe a bit more that I was before!
For James and I we are off to the Tigers game with my Mom and Dad. I have to find a way to bring all of meds into the park without getting in trouble. Hopefully they won't say anything about them. It will be an experience to do them at the game, but hey I am just learning to be more adaptable!

Thanks for your prayers!