Clear roads this trip!
My baselines looked great! And I was okay-ed to begin my medications as scheduled the next day. Now a frozen embryo transfer (FET) is a lot different than doing a whole IVF cycle. I had a lot fewer appointments with the FET, about 1 a week, compared to the every other day or every day appointments I had with our IVF cycle. It was so much better!
At this appointment all our consent forms and money that we owed was due. Remember when I said that we hadn't wanted to take out another loan? Another miracle occurred and we were able to pay everything without a loan!
I began 2 of my medications the next day. Estrace and Baby Aspirin. The Estrace really affected me! I was extremely cranky for about the first week I was on it. Until my body got used to it. Think of PMS on extreme steroids.
My next appointment was about a week and a half later. I again drove down to this appointment by myself. This appointment was just a check to see how my body was responding to the Estrace. If it wasn't responding well then they would increase my dose. Thankfully I was responding perfectly! My uterine lining was looking great and my estrogen levels were perfect as well! So, I continued my current dose.
The next appointment was my last one before my transfer! My friend ended up coming with me again which was good because the roads were again not the best. I picked her up and we hit the road. Not even 10 minutes later my Escape started shaking really bad and my check engine light began flashing along with the flat tire notification. So we pulled over and I checked the tires. They were all fine. My friend called her dad and her husband and they both said that it should be ok to drive to the next town which was about another 10 minutes away and go straight to get the code read. So that's what we did. After going to one place and being told they couldn't come out to read the code we rushed over to another place and got there 5 minutes before they closed. They thankfully were able to read the code and it came back as ignition coil 2 was bad. They unfortunately did not have the one we needed in stock but they said we should be fine to make it to my parents house a couple hours away as long as we didn't push it too hard. So we drove going about 60mph when the roads were dry.
The snow looked like water!
It was so shiny!
Thankfully, my parents were willing to let us borrow their car to drive the rest of the way to my in-laws where we were staying that night. After we had switched vehicles, we got on our way again. Then another unfortunate mishap occurred about 10 minutes out from their house. The headlight on their vehicle went out! We weren't positive that had happened so we pulled over in the next town and checked it. And, yes, it was out. I did not want to turn around to switch vehicles again and so we continued on with me using the brights when there weren't any other vehicles in front of me or coming towards me.
This all turned out to be a huge blessing in disguise. About 45 minutes later, at a time when my brights were on, there was a large herd of deer crossing the interstate! Because I had my brights on I was able to see them with plenty of time to stop. I honked my horn as there were no other vehicles and they ran off and we continued on our way again. The next morning, the headlight was working again. Which further confirms to me that it was a blessing.
We finally made it to my appointment. This was just a quick appointment, a blood draw to check my hormone levels. They would be checking my estrogen again, as well as, my progesterone. The progesterone had to be low indicating that I hadn't ovulated otherwise the whole cycle would be canceled. Thankfully, everything was right where they wanted it to be! And I was given the go ahead to begin my next 2 medications!
Til next time!
Becca
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