I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that it was always unlikely that we were going to be successful on the first go-round through the IVF process. As you go through it, though, and overcome so many hurdles of the different appointments and master the drug regimen, you’re not thinking that the odds [...]
In the past few weeks I have read “The Perks of being a Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky, “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,” by Haruki Murakami and “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen. As I have mentioned before, I am not very comfortable offering any kind of critical review of authors that are [...]
Today is T minus 4 days until we get the official blood test to tell us if all of this effort is going to pay off for us. The wait has been a little harder on Team Jensen than I thought it would be, but perhaps I was being naive. It has certainly been a [...]
I have read that this “two week wait” from the time that you find you “could” be pregnant until the time you can actually test it is the hardest part of the process. I think people go a little crazy being trapped in their own minds with no new data to process. They want it [...]
Amy did an excellent write-up of her day already so if you have read her account then this may not add much, but I didn’t want to skip such an important day just because it had already been recounted. Here is the Partners Perspective, for what that is worth.
It had been getting increasingly tough for Amy [...]
I was listening to the Bob Edwards (radio) show yesterday on the way home from work. He has an hour long interview program on XM’s pseudo NPR channel (channel 133). Bob Edwards lends credibility to the NPR concept on XM because he was the voice of NPR’s Morning Edition or All Things Considered for almost [...]
Good news today from the Doctors today. Her follicles have progressed to the point where they’re ready to do the egg retrieval, so we “trigger” tonight at 7:30 pm with the HcG. Thirty-six hours later the eggs will be harvested (Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m.) and they will attempt to fertilize as many good ones [...]