Angie goes in for her suppression scan tomorrow, to see if the heavy-duty pills are doing their work. This stage was the beginning of the end of our early-summer cycle as despite the BCPs and lupron, Angie wasn't suppressed, meaning she ovulated, meaning she had all sorts of crazy hormones in her body that might possibly adversely affect our cycle, meaning the cycle was postponed.
You see, the goal is to trick mine and Angie's bodies into thinking we are on the same cycle so when they harvest and fertilize my eggs and transfer a hopefully kick-butt blastocyst into her uterus 5 days later, her body will be at the stage to accept said kick-butt embryo. So, the clinic wants to be able to fully manipulate her hormones so she is at the precise levels and the precise time, but last time her hormones were slightly off, and so were our plans.
This is all just as well, because I have been using the extra few months to procrastinate at finishing the surrogacy contract, going caffeine free, and doing all the other things that I intended to do pre-stim to get myself into better shape, which still has yet to be done.
When and if this cycle actually gets some momentum, I hope this blog will as well. In the meantime, I want to invite all of you invited readers (don't you feel special) to post comments, words of encouragement, or any questions you may have, whether they be of a scientific nature, such as what is a blastocyst, a medical nature, such as why we are going through all this trouble, or a personal nature, such as what color underwear is Angie wearing tonight. Hey, this is a blog about one of the most personal experiences a person (or two or three) can go through. If we are willing to (somewhat) publicly disclose this saga, chances are, you ask it, we'll answer it.
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