Early Morning Monitoring

I had my monitoring appointment this morning at 7:30. Have I ever mentioned that I am not a morning person? I usually barely hit the shower by 7:20. Hubby rolls out of bed when I'm done in the bathroom, close to 8. We're lucky to live less that 20 minutes from our jobs (which are right down the street from each other), and have the luxury of not getting in until 9. Although this does mean working until 6.

Anyway, this morning, the alarm went off 45 minutes earlier than usual so I could leave the house my 7:10. I am also lucky enough to live 20 min (traffic depending) from my clinic. I was out of the bathroom, getting dressed and bugging Hubby to get up and help me with my injections by 6:50.

Of course, it had to be one of those mornings when the Gonal.F pen didn't have enough left in it to make a full dose. OK, 37.5 from one, go grab another from the fridge. Prime it. Dial it up to 112.5. Jab it in. Count the clicks.

Do any of you count the clicks on the pen? As you depress the plunger, it clicks for each increment of 37.5...usually. So, 112.5 should be three clicks. Hubby jabs in the needle. Click...Click...    ....? Ugh, are you kidding me? The dial shows the correct dose. What do we do? I am quickly running out of time, and need to at least put a little bit of make-up on my face so I don't doubly scary people both by getting in to work before 8:30, and by the incredible dark circles under my eyes!

Since we still have the gani.relix left to go, we decide to just relax, and let it go. Things seem to be moving along just fine, and we have another dose tonight. If we really did miss a click, then we're only down my 12.5% for the day. Gani.relix went fine, although it did sting a bit. I find that anything that manages to run down the outside of the needle while getting the air out of the syringe always stings more.

I made it to the clinic by 7:32! Granted, I am now eating my cereal out of a coffee mug at work, instead of a home like usual, but not too shabby. It's funny that the earlier I have to go, the faster I can get there, because  there just isn't traffic on the highway yet.

I my follie counts from the sonographer...still waiting for results and instructions from the nurse. It is only 8:57 after all. Anyway, I have 8 measurable, the largest being 20, 16 and 14. I'm hoping we'll end up with more. And I am totally reserving judgement at this point because looking back at my records, on day 9 the last time, I only had 7 above 10, and I ended up with 14 total. So, I still feel really good about the way things are progressing.

I guess that's all for now. I need to post some more crafty/inspiration, but that's not as easy to do from work. Stay tuned!

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Added later at 9:15am...E2 is 749, up 182 from yesterday. Yes, I am stalking my lab results online. They are so speedy!

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Added again at 2:34pm...sometimes I'm glad I worry about things in advance...turns out they do want me back for more monitoring tomorrow morning, so I get to do that on the way to jury duty. Good times ahead! But, the nurse said all is going well. Still no changes to my dose which makes me feel good about life for some reason.