Day 1

Today is Day 1. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Leading up to this, I thought I was going to feel nervous and robbed of the excitement and joy I felt the previous times, if simply out of caution--caution because maybe I'm just not completely sure this can happen anymore. But when the clock struck twelve and the calendar rolled to 2011, I felt different. I felt hope. I began counting the days and anticipating a year in which wonderful things will happen to me.

I counted to today. Day 1. My fertility medications came in the mail today ($628 for Follistim 900 and Novarel). I called the doctor's office to let them know it's time. The nurse gave me the much anticipated schedule of events:

Jan. 9 = Begin taking Femara (an oral medication to regulate my cycle) twice a day for five days.
Jan. 11 = Start Follistim (a hormone to make me produce mature follicles (eggs)) injections each evening for six days.
Jan. 17 = Follicle scan at 8:15 AM to see how many follicles I produced (I had two when I got pregnant with Gabriel and three when I got pregnant with Tater Tot)
Jan. 19 = THE BIG DAY!!! Be at the doctor's office at 8:00 AM for the IUI

This is it, my faithful readers. This is really going to happen. Please pray, pray, pray. And thank you, because I know you already do.