07/07/2023
Welp it’s been quiet for a while but there’s a story behind that..
March 2023 - I had been so overwhelmed with life (work mostly) that i completely forgot about some labs I needed to do post visit to Denver. I had a work/vacation trip planned for early March and everything was falling apart at work with delayed projects and resignations. I wasn’t myself around this time and realized while i was in Vegas of all places that I was depressed. Thanks to some good friends I did enjoy most of my time off but when I got home, I called my doctor and got on antidepressants and tried to find a therapist. It wasn’t until April that I could get those labs done because of my cycle so I was just a sitting duck til then. E also took the lead and got our loan approved ✅ I’m so grateful that he jumped in because I was not in a space to do anything remotely complex. All I had to do was sign paperwork and that’s about all I could manage😔😔
April 2023 - Got my Day 3 labs done and shipped off. Got a call from the nurse saying she got them and had my regroup with the doctor scheduled. I found a therapist and started seeing her weekly… much needed
May 2023 - Our phone call with the doctor went well. Our numbers are good. Eric’s numbers are great 🙄 that eye roll is for all the bragging he did about his numbers for the next week 🤣 Anyway the doctor said we could start priming and stims in June with an expected retrieval in early July. She would have the nurse call us with a calendar. We were so excited! It was actually happening. We got a green light! Well a few days later I called the nurse because I hadn’t heard from her and she politely reminded me that I still had some outstanding requirements before we could talk calendar😤 In my depressed state I completely neglected the follow up instructions after the one day work up😫😫😔I think subconsciously I was avoiding because maybe I was a little terrified of it all. But I had to do all the steps so I went online and booked a nutritionist consult and tried to find a maternal fetal medicine MFM doctor locally. I was able to meet with a dietician in May - super sweet, very helpful, health at every size focused provider. That was what I needed. Lots of practical tips not focused on weight or weight management. I booked my consult with MFM over telehealth at UCH Denver for June 8 per my nurses recommendations. The Black MFM doctor in KS was booked out to August😩
June - By this point things with the nutritionist have been going well. I was sort of just laying in wait for that June appointment. June 8 finally rolls around and 2 hours before the appointment the office calls to tell me not only is the provider I’m scheduled to see NOT a MFM, but they also doing do telehealth out of state 🤬🤬😤😤 I was devastated. I had waited 4 weeks for this appointment and they canceled it the day of. I called later that week to complain and they said there’s nothing we can do. I contacted my nurse to explain what happened and literally BEG the doc to let me go forward with stims because this wasn’t my fault; they referred me there! Fortunately for me my doctor agreed to let us go forward with stims but we can’t do a transfer until I have that consult… WE WILL TAKE IT!!!! 🥳 So we got our calendar and plan to start priming July 1 with my cycle day 1. I also tried to reschedule with the Black doctor in KC 👩🏾⚕️and, of course, she’s not taking new patients until August. So I’m in a wait list. We also started looking at travel and Air bnb options. We decided to do all our monitoring in Denver so there’s no hiccups with the daily ultrasounds. I’ll be working remotely 👩💻during that time. E will try to do some online teaching for his summer work. We decided to take Lady 🐾🐾with us too… saves us $400 on boarding 🥴 Everything starts with cycle day 1 which should be July 2. I started calling pharmacies across the US. Side note: it should be a crime that medications can cost different prices at different providers. I call 8 pharmacies and got 8 different pricings! We settled on Village IVF Specialty Pharmacy in NJ. Big question is, how much will it cost!?!?! 🫣🫣
July 2023 - July 1 rolls around and no cramps, no spotting, nothing. July 2,3,4,5… not a peep. Of course this 🔴 is very shy. When she’s needed to perform she always has stage fright. Since she was late we knew our plans for travel would be amended so every day we just watched and waited…
And finally on July 7… she’s arrived! Which means I start priming today with birth control and in about two weeks we start SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS!!! I ordered $3000 worth of meds today to be delivered July 11 and just like that, sh$t just got real😳😳🥹🥹
