Italian

Thanks for all the lovin' yesterday ladies. I needed it!

Today is sunny, and I am feeling a bit better after heading home to the couch and the TV, and nothing else, last night.We'll see how long it lasts.

Quick update. Today I had a monitoring appointment. I am still waiting of instructions*, but I do know that I won't be triggering tonight. So, retrieval is Saturday at the earliest, although I have a feeling it will be Sunday. (Because of course, my Little Bro will be in town on business and is going to stay with us that night!) Right now, I have 8 follicles. 5 on the left, 3 on the right. It's the exact opposite of where I was this point in IVF 2.0. The largest on either is 16, which I why I'm sure there will be no trigger tonight. I think I have three at 14, and 3 at 10 as well. I'm satisfied with 8 at this point, because I have always ended up with more eggs than the follicles that were counted after 5 days of stims. I'm sure there are a handful more that will catch up in the next day or two.

OK, before I get back to work, Chon is wondering what I will do if Violetta really decides she would rather be a boy. Well, the front runner name right now is Luigi Limoncello. I hadn't thought about continuing the V theme, but maybe Vincenzo Martini might do? Or Vinnie? Thoughts?

Oh, and if Violetta decides that she would like to have a sister, well then, she'll be Lucia Sangria of course.




PS - Now you all think I am way more Italian than I actually am. I'm 1/4. Papa was born there. Arazio. But I've got a heck of a lot of English, Irish and German in there as well. Though, if I were to hyphenate, my name would sound like something out of a bad feminist mobster movie. Hubby's 1/2. I'm kinda jealous.

*Updated later. Just heard from the nurse. She quoted me 7 follicles, unlike the u/s tech who said 8. They are upping my dose of gonal f to 225 twice a day instead of just night, which feels good, since in two days, my E2 went from 232 to only 310. I think it should have at least doubled in two days. It's time to kick the girls into gear!

The other weird thing I've got going on that I think I haven't mentioned yet is pretty constant (every time I wipe) dark brown spotting since my period ended a week ago. Good times. And now it's starting to mix with cm which is becoming more eggwhitey as E2 goes up, making for all sorts of interesting things on the toilet paper. In any case, I left the question for the nurse this morning, since I have not experienced this kind of thing before. She said not to worry, but to keep them updated. It's likely just because I was on Lupron for an extended period of time. The good news is that at baseline, my lining was nice and thin, and is thickening up nicely (to quote the nurse with the over use of the work nice) so the spotting is not affecting that. Whew!