Recently I have been paralyzed by the sheer enormity of the things on my mind. And yet I’ve had nothing interesting to say—not that my customary posts about unlucky dolphins and the evils of shoulder pads are terribly riveting, but the frenzied blathering of my brain over the past few weeks has been even less […]
This morning on my way to work I was listening to a very sad story on NPR about four dolphins who washed ashore, each with a fatal bullet wound. The agent in charge of the investigation was being interviewed, and several times in the course of the brief segment she opined that it was possible […]
Ah, summer. I can tell it is here because I am wearing a sundress, looking out the window at a bright, green world…and sitting in my office on a Saturday.
Why does my busy season, the season of looming deadlines and excessive overtime, have to coincide with the one part of the Minnesota year when it […]
Friday, June 8th:
Our intrepid heroine prepares for her ultrasound by reading back issues of Fertility and Sterility and fervently hoping for at least one follicle at 12mm—or some indication that she is responding to the medication.
At the clinic, she and her husband watch an educational video about injections. The actors are blonde and vaguely Swedish-looking. […]
The photographer sent a few pictures to tide me over. Please ignore my underchin and focus instead upon how fetchingly thin my arm looks in the first picture. A happy trick of the light, on a very happy day.
Right Ovary: 16.5, 15.5, 13, 12, 11.5, 11.5, 10
Left Ovary: 17, 17, 12, 10
Lining: 6mm
Is this really so horrible? Yes, it is rather odd to have eleven follicles at least 10mm on day ten when I am only on LETROZOLE, for pity’s sake, but looking around the Interweb (surely the best and most reliable source […]
Cycle cancelled due to hyperstimulation.
Dr. Doctor has “never seen anything like it.”
Under strict orders to eschew sex in order to avoid conception of quadruplets.
Am punishing errant ovaries with large quantities of alcohol.
Am punishing self with PubMed, tears, and prodding of painful abdomen.
Details tomorrow.
First, let me ask my inane reproductive question of the day:
Spotting on Letrozole–normal or not? I have quite a lot of cramping and bloating, which I expected, but the spotting baffles me. I finished my Letrozole yesterday, it is day 8, and still, the light spotting continues. My E2 levels should be rising by now, […]
Mrrggh. Today is my first day back at the office post-honeymoon. I had a whole glorious week off after the wedding, and it spoiled me a bit, I’m afraid. I can’t help but notice that I am no longer within ambling distance of wine, and even if I were, its consumption would likely be frowned […]
When I finish typing this I will take my first two Letrozole pills. They are the tiny orange tablets in the picture above—the most diminutive looking drug in my protocol, and yet the one expected to do the brunt of the work. I am skeptical, but then I have never gotten used to the idea […]
