Well, today was an excellent day! We headed off to Lubbock around 11:15 or so, and stopped through McDonalds and grabbed lunch. J and I chatted all the way about his new worktruck, work, my mom's 60th birthday party and various things. I also had some time to read a few chapters of Pioneer Woman's memoir (which is fabulous, by the way!).
Our first appointment was at 1:00 for J to do his thing in the "fun room" at the lab. After that, we had to wait an hour before heading to one of my favorite places of all times: Dr Phy! Seriously, I get soooo super excited when I have an appointment! It's like when I have an appointment for a pedicure or a massage or facial. I seriously cannot wait to get in there and see what is going on! I LOVE those ladies! Each one at that office is soooo sweet and so caring and I just LOVE arriving there and chatting with them! Come to find out, 2 of them are avid scrapbookers! SCORE! Must be fate for me to be there, right??
Well, we had to get some papers from the medical billing and such for my Aflac claim from my surgery in March, so that pretty took up the hour wait. So, we drove to the other side of the hospital to go downstairs to the garden level (basement level all fancied up...) as I have numerous times in the last 6 months. We were greeted by the super sweet women and waited about 10 minutes for it to be our turn. Jeremy and I took turns playing Angry Birds on my new Nook Color....Then Katy came to the door and greeted us and called us back. She told us that J's sample hadn't yet made it back from the lab, so she allowed us to wait in the room. We waited about 5-10 more minutes.
Then Katy and Alicia came in together, one with the catheter containing the magical potion for my future children...hopefully. (haha.) Alicia then informed me that she was needing some practice with ultrasounds during an IVF procedure that was coming up, and asked if she could do an ultrasound of the IUI process. I said sure, and we went on with the show.
Now, I will tell you guys (well, girls mainly....I don't know any guys that read this, INCLUDING my dear husband!) that the process really sucks. Just imagine you are getting your yearly pap smear, but you have a catheter inserted into your uterus. It's awful. Your cervix does NOT like foreign objects, so it makes you cramp. Like crazy. I have to sit there and wait for the cramping to stop before we can proceed. We had to do this 3 times. (This is because the cramping can expel the swimmers...) Anyways, enough with the icky stuff! We saw the catheter on the screen and watched the little fellas (as Jeremy calls them) swim towards my falloppian tubs. It was amazing! I was soooo excited to see the possibility of one of those swimmers finding my egg.
I have not had ANY cramping from ovulation (and I do EVERY time, as I'm usually on some sort of med to induce it, so it is a little bit more powerful ovulation than normal ovulation...so It's usually very painful...). 30 minutes after the IUI procedure, I had a sudden surge of the painful surges. I knew exactly what it was. I have traveled this road a few times before, so there was no mistaking what this was! This is AMAZING because it gives us a much higher chance of conceiving. We have to wait until July 5th to see whether or not this procedure worked. I know that this is all in God's hands and whether or not it works is up to Him. And I'm okay with it. He's got this under control!
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