Scheduling "conflicts"

Part of my exhaustion with our IVF process is determining WHEN we should schedule the cycle. David is going to be running the Fargo 1/2 Marathon the middle of May. I have my graduation on June 9th and my last day of school is June 11th.

We were hoping for May to avoid any possibility of this "large amounts of snow" we were "promised" for this winter. Yeah, we see how much that has worked out!

We were worried that we might be stranded in Fargo during a snow storm when we should be in Sioux Falls. IVF cycles are very time sensitive.

I don't want to be on drugs when I "run" the Fargo Marathon 5k. I would prefer not to be on the stimulation drugs during the graduation ceremony. We have to work around Memorial day holidays and vacations. David said that we could have a graduation party at a hotel in the cities (am I 5? I want a pool party! LOL). The stimulation drugs also pretty much prevent us from leaving the Fargo-Moorhead area because we have to be able to do ultradounds whenever the doctor tells us we need to.

I guess we have waited this long. What is another month?

Graduation Date!

I am scheduled to graduated on June 9th in Minneapolis! Wahoo! I cannot wait!

Exhausted!

Every time I think about our upcoming IVF process I become exhausted! I am worried because I'll be on a different drug protocol than I was on before. Two additional drugs were added - one is a patch and the other is a shot but I'm not sure how often I'll have to take them. When we went through the process last time, my nurse had mentioned that the Fargo office was "spoiling" me because I only had to take my shots once/day and that they make their patients split up the medication doses to twice/day. I am assuming that we will have to start doing the shots twice/day. This exhausts me! I had no side effects on the previous protocol...so I'm nervous that I'll have not flashes, more pain, and even more cysts (I had one last round which was the cause of most of my small amount of pain).

I am exhausted every time I think about being paralyzed from the waist down for 6 plus hours (result of the spinal).

I need to have strength to make my "demands".

• Demand 1: We will not be paying the pre-payment amount because I don't want to have to deal with trying to figure out where my money went again.
• Demand 2: I want the same anesthesiologist as I had last time. Patients with TCS MUST have a care team that understand TCS and our difficult airway issues. It's a life/death type situation. Thankfully this is on my chart now as the people in Fargo kind of dismissed my claims of difficult intubation.

Yeah, I'm exhausted....