The Payez Family

My IVF coordinator, Karen called this morning. The lab is shut down every 6 weeks to be sterilized so we will be starting my injections the week of November 12th. That means a possible egg retrieval surgery around Thanksgiving, embryo transfer (As long as the eggs fertilize) 3-5 days later, and hopefully a positive pregnancy test by the day of my graduation, December 16th! What a wonderful Christmas/Graduation present that would be. Married at Christmas and hopefully finding out we are going to be parents at Christmas as well. I am so excited! I can’t believe it is actually going to happen. I know it’s going to work…I just know it!!! A September baby!!!! I feel so lucky!

I am such a newbie to blogging, and can’t seem to figure much out at this point so none of my links are showing up. I have a few that I hold near and dear to me. I truly hope you will watch them and they may have some sort of impact on you, whether its learning how difficult this is, or how many women must deal with it. We have our own support system through various websites where we belong and if it weren’t for these friends, I don’t know if I could go through this as calmly as I have so far. I want to thank you all for being so wonderful to me. Even many of you have gotten your miracles and some of you have lapped me (uh hem, Michelle) you are still there rooting for me…and I want you to know….I am TRULY happy for all of you. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

http://www.vocalicious.com/empty_arms/empty_arms_mod2.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDSB5M-tfRk

I don’t want anyone to think I am obsessing. Going through all of this requires a certain devotion, of total and utter priority. I kept to myself too long and it was hard. It feels so much better letting everyone in.

So we went to the appointment this morning and got good, but scary news. Apparently when they did the surgery there was something suspicious and Dr. McGinnis ordered an endometrial biopsy, because he said I had a “worrisome” amount of “hyperplasia-like” cells (endometrial/uterine cancer). While the pathology report was considerably abnormal, there was no hyperplasia present. WHEW! BUT he did say that my estrogen levels are too high and if this continues I am at high risk to develop this cancer, so I will have to take some sort of nasal spray that will shut down my pituitary gland, putting my body into early menopause and stopping the production of estrogen. SAD! The injections for the in vitro will still force my ovaries to produce the eggs so IVF might still work, but it will be 100% impossible for us to conceive naturally. I will be calling the office in a few weeks and possibly starting my injections! I am now, more than ever, ready for this! I can’t believe I am 23 years old and will be in menopause. As long as I am healthy and we still have a shot at our family, I will cope with this. That’s it for now!!!