Welllllll.....guess the ticker isn't correct afterall :)

So I went to the new RE's office Tuesday morning....

First off, I have to tell you about the lab tech there. I'm really missing my guys at Northwestern that's for sure!!! There's just one guy that does the blood draws so you're stuck with him even if he has trouble. Haha, stuck...no pun intended. So, I've had my blood drawn once before Tuesday and he did find the vein but it was a tough draw. When I went back in Tuesday it was more of the same. He barely even brushes the skin, I'm like, "How are you finding the veins that way?!!??". The real kicker is that he starts trying to make conversation with me and asks, "So...do you have kids?" Kid you not...I'm sitting getting blood drawn in an INFERTILITY CLINIC. wtf.  I'm great fielding awkward questions like that, granted I wasn't expecting THAT one, so I was able to pull off a nervous laugh and respond with a "nope!"

After my bloodwork, I stopped and talked to the nurse. I love how nice they are and always are willing to answer my myriad of questions, LOL I did tell her that I don't deal well with change so I'm a little apprehensive, which she probably could tell based on my questions. Based on my bloodwork, I'd most likely have started Provera and once my period came back then I'd start the bcp and be set to go for July sometime.

However, the nurse called and said that my levels were so low (e2 was like 42 and progesterone .441...even after missing AF almost 2 months) so they told me to skip the Provera and go right to the BCP. The best part of this is, not only did they pick the earlier start date (which I thought if they did pick it I'd consider starting in June) , they are starting it two days earlier on Friday June 14th because of the July 4th holiday. So.....I'm taking the bcp for six days, going back on Monday for an ultrasound and bloodwork, then most likely starting my stims on Friday the 14th!! ACK!!!! They're ordering my meds now I'm totally freaking out!!!  We went from who knows when we'd even be able to consider stimming again to OMG NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!

Here I am super psyched about being on bcp again...

I had to also take a picture of the label since I do find it so funny...

This is already a busy month and this will make things a little busier but the increase in schedule is most appreciated. I suppose I need to tell my boss I changed my mind about stimming so soon so she knows that I'll be out a day or two coming up. Eeep!!!

I've made a new "Get Psyched" playlist CD for my car and thanks to a 3T'er, my  cycle theme song is "People Like Us" the new Kelly Clarkson song. I think it really speaks to what I'm going through and how having the support of my 75 girls on Facebook and the ladies I've met on The Bump has helped so much getting through every disappointment along the way.

"People like us we've gotta stick together
Keep your head up, nothing lasts forever
Here's to the damned, to the lost and forgotten
It's hard to get high when you're living on the bottom"
I'm really hopeful that the disappointments are behind me and there are only happy endings from here on out. Jim and I were talking about it today and we feel like things are really stacking up in our favor lately.....we have the house, we're settled in it, I've got a solid stable job with predictable paychecks, we have our new RE who is willing to cycle us with our OE and a brand new protocol (which was along the lines of what I thought we should try). Basically, I've got a lot riding on this. Yup!!!! Ahhhh!!!


P.S. Here are my flowers in the mini pails. It says it'd be about 60days before they bloom so maybe by the time my cycle is over we will have some pretty flowers :)