November 2016 - IVF #5, SHOTS!

Tonight was the first night of shots for round 5.  I updated my alarm ringtone with the chorus from LMFAO's "SHOTS!", which will go off nightly at 7:45pm to give me enough time to mix and prime up the shots for injection around 8pm.

I've used this meme before...and oldie, but a goodie!

This protocol so far is the same as our first round (birth control, then Menopur & Gonal-F, 300 iu each), but adds in the double Ovidrel and Lupron triggers like in round 4.   I'm expecting 12-15 days of shots before we trigger, putting retrieval sometime around the first weekend of December.

Since I have ultrasounds and blood tests Wednesday and Friday this week, we are staying home for Thanksgiving.  Michael & I knew this was likely about a month and a half ago.  He knew I was pretty bummed about not getting to go to my brother's house for Thanksgiving.  The two of them pulled off quite a surprise last weekend...

I thought Michael's college roommate Pat was coming to down on business and we were picking him up from the airport to stay with us for the weekend.  We were really picking up Matt and Lauren!  As soon as I realized the trick, the tears started rolling.  The weekend with them was a full-on surprise for me.  One that everyone else close to me knew about!  We went out for Mexican food (straight from the airport, of course), shot sporting clays, took a cooking class with two of our best friends who arranged for a private chef to came to our house, and played lots of corn hole while watching football before they had to head back to Salt Lake City.

It was such a wonderful and happy weekend for me, and I felt so overwhelmed and special that everyone would work together with Michael on surprising me.  I understand there were code texts involved...even Pat (all the way in VA) was in on it, in the off chance I texted him about his "visit".  Quite the comprehensive ruse, and I was delightfully and fully fooled!  Not being able to go anywhere for Thanksgiving (except to the clinic to visit "Wanda") suddenly didn't seem so bad after the surprise weekend visiting with family and friends.

Such a WONDERFUL surprise!
Thank you, Michael, Matt, Lauren, Ryan, & Colby!