Well, another month has come and gone, and once again I'm back at the doctors office today for my baseline ultrasound, because... could you guess? I'm still not pregnant.
It's kind of funny actually, because this month was anything BUT normal. It did start off normal enough, but then about a week before our scheduled IUI, I found out that my mother was going to need a total hysterectomy as she had stage 1 uterine cancer. She wanted me to come and stay with her for about a week and a half because she was not sure what kind of state she would be in after the surgery.
NOW, this would have been pretty simple, only she lives in Jamaica (yes, I'm from Jamaica, and yes, there are white Jamaicans), AND I had my IUI scheduled for Monday Sept 6th, and her surgery was on Thursday the 9th! Needless to say, I went to my IUI appointment at 10am, and was off to the airport headed to Jamaica by 2:30 the same day! Of course as I printed my boarding pass I realized that somehow I had booked my last connection wrong, and had to spend 12 hours in Miami, but that's another story!
Anyway, it was pretty funny, because I was scheduling this whole trip to Jamaica ( have I mentioned that I have not been back in 9 years??) around IF treatments! I determined when I had to be back in the US by determining when I would need to be back for my next baseline ultrasound (what can I say, out of habit I had to assume that I was not going to be pregnant). When it was time for me to leave, my mom wanted me to stay longer.. how much longer? Well, it could not be more than four days, because I had to be back for a b.ultrasound by day 5 of my cycle. I mean seriously, how did everything in my life come to revolve around IF! In fact, my husband and I were thinking about what we were going to do for Christmas, and the first thing I thought about was how it might interfere with our treatment schedule!
The crazy thing is, this will be our fourth IUI with clomid... now I'm pretty sure that this is the last time that it will be this simple, I mean, until more drastic measures come into play. Needless to say I'm more hopeful than ever this cycle, as I don't want to face what seems to be the inevitable injectables and IVF.
