The Packet

Last Friday Matt and I received our IVF packet in the mail.  Dr Henry's nurse called a few days before and casually mentioned to me that she should be sending it.  I assumed it would include our "calendar" and maybe some info on the drugs.  I was wrong.  Reading though the pages felt like I was in high school again studying for a final exam.  Lets hope I pass this test.

Not only does the packet include our estimated IVF schedule, it also contains lab orders for both of us for an infectious disease screening, drug information and consent forms.  And that's just one side of the folder.  The other side gives a step by step reading of IVF in a nutshell; pictures, detailed info on the retrieval and then the transfer and more than 10 pages of how to administer the medication I will be taking.  My head is spinning.

This is a long process.  Mine of course, longer than most.  According to my cycle the retrieval and transfer should have been the 3rd week of July, but because they are so busy making babies at Reproductive Care of Indiana we were not able to be fit into the schedule until the 3rd week of August.  Which is fine, I guess.  I mean, I've waited this long already.  Why not wait another month? All this means is that I will be constantly taking (active only) birth control pills a little longer and that I will (yea!) not have a period next month.  

We don't make the trek to Indianapolis again until July 16th.  On that day we will be meeting with our nurse for our IVF conference.  The patient checklist states to read the packet throughly and to ask a lot of questions.  What the nurse doesn't know is that I am a list maker and a question asker.  She may loathe me in the end.  I am definitely prepared for this journey.