Ready, Set, Go...

Ok, This is the start of my blogging days. I wanted to start this blog to be an outlet for me during my IVF journey. My husband (Thomas) is the Best and has always supported my "crazy" ideas. That's what he would call them anyway! He truly does support me though. I didn't know love could be so deep. In 2006, was the first time we went to the doctor to see why we weren't getting pregnant. The doctor told us we needed to do IVF. It was going to be super expensive. Thomas wanted to leave and discuss it before making a decision but they had said the magic word for me, which was.....Baby! So of course, we signed up that day. In Thomas' defense, love makes you do crazy things and some times you just love crazy. Well, it didn't work and we could only afford that one cycle at the time. It was devastating. I felt robbed and emotionally drained.

Fast forward 5 years and I'm ready to try again. I'm very hopeful. We did more research this time and didn't let our emotions lead the decision.....ok, my emotions. At least, I'm learning from my mistakes! The first time we did IVF they said my eggs were a poor quality, which we found out my be a result of going through chemo. So this time we are going for broke!! We are going to do an IVF cycle on a donor and me then see what happens.

So I have the medication on it's way. Next week, our new doctor is going to show us how to do the shots! They found out that my thyroid is high so I have to go see a different doctor is get that under control before they will transfer any embryos. But the bright side is that we still can harvest my eggs and see if they are any good this time. So keep your fingers crossed!! We have a top notch doctor and I have a top notch husband.

I'm sure there will be many bends in the road but I know i'm on the road for the long haul!! And my hubby is too, he wouldn't know what to do with normal ;)