Vivelle Dots

Quick tip of the day - If anyone else has to use Vivelle Dots, the medicated patches, that scrapbooking stuff called Goo Gone (and other generic adhesive removers) works just as well on skin as it does on other surfaces.  That sticky crap stayed on my skin no matter how much I hit it with soap in the shower but the adhesive remover took it off really quick.

This is the stuff I've been using.
UN-DU Adhesive Remover - 4oz Bottle

Closing in

Only 3 more days until we transfer embryos.

In the bank we have 1 grade four embryo and 2 grade threes.  We intend to thaw the 2 grade threes and as long as one of them looks good, we'll leave grade four in the bank so we can try for a second child a few years later.  So it's possible we'll only be transferring one embryo (depending on what survives the thaw).

K wanted to continue thawing until we had 2 strong embryos, even if it meant thawing all of them so we have our best shot at getting pregnant on this round.  But I disagreed.  This FET is a mediocre hand, a pair of sevens and I'd rather go all in on a full house.  If we fail this attempt, we can move on to a fresh round in September.  That will probably get us pregnant, AND it will bank some more young embryos for a second child when I'm about 40.  To me, that's our best chance of growing old with two children.  If I get pregnant on this round, it's quite possible that the one child is the only one we'll get.

After discussion, we've decided to go with my plan.  We only thaw the last embryo if the other two don't survive and we need that third one in order to implant anything. 

Of course, with K, sometimes it's hard to tell if he's actually come to agree with me, or if he's simply decided to let me have my way. 

I'm hoping the whole argument will be completely moot because the both the grade threes will thaw perfectly and be really strong.  In a truly perfect world, both embryos will take, we'll get a set of boy/girl twins and still have a roll of the dice in the bank if we decide to try for a third later.  But how often do things work out perfectly?

*TMI Time* 

We're done with the lupron, so I'm hoping to slowly climb back to a better mood.  But now I've got these vaginal pills that I have to take 3 times a day.  I don't like them!  It seems like the second one I take every day dissolves and it seems to gurgle right back out of me and I feel like I've wet my pants.  I can't figure out what the liquid is but it's thin like water so I'm wearing pads every day.  And if this works, I'll be taking those until my 10th week of pregnancy.  And at night, I have to include a 4th pill up the yin yang.  That one is blue and when it dissolves, well, when you're bleary eyed and doing your morning pee, it's a little startling to wipe blue.

Just a warning, if I have really really good news in 2 weeks, odds are I'm going to be more upset than happy about it.  It's probably not going to be "oh boy, I'm pregnant!" but rather "Oh boy, let's see if this sticks."  And that will likely last until I can feel movement every day.

Entry points

We're 10 days before implant, and I have medications entering my body in almost every which way available.

I'm taking medication orally
I'm taking medication vaginally
I have hormone patches on my skin
I'm getting injections

Let's play a game.  How many medication delivery methods can you think of that aren't being utilized?  So far, I can identify three -

Nasal
Suppository
Ear drops

If you can identify a fourth (or beyond), I'll send you a coupon code for 15% off your purchase at my pottery store.

** Update **

We have our first two entries!

Alyssa has won a 15% coupon with "Eye Drops"!  Email me from the Contact Alex page and I'll send you the coupon code.

Becki - hmmmmmm, is an IV different enough from Injection to count as a whole new delivery method?  I think I'm going to have to call in the judge on this one.  K, your thoughts?

K here - Technically an IV is injecting the medication through a needle the same way a regular injection is.  So technically, it is not much different than the syringes we're using.  But I like your thinking so I'm making Alex give you a 10% off discount.

Alex again - Becki, look for my message on Artfire with your coupon code.

Anyone else have any ideas?

**Update 2**

Hmmm after consulting with our judge, we're gonna say that no, inhalers and nebulizers fall into the "Nasal" category and lotions actually enter the body the same way as the patches - absorbed through the skin.

The Lottery Ticket Round of FET

As reported last night, my body has decided to have a schedule all it's own.  I was planning on starting this process again in a couple of weeks but MEB (My Evil Body) has decided that I'm starting tonight.

Medications are being ordered.  Have to hit the pharmacy to pick up my birth control pills today (because that's how it ironically starts).

I'm calling this The Lottery Ticket Round.  I don't know exactly what I'm rooting for here.  If I get pregnant from this, yay!  If I don't, I can do a fresh round in a couple of months and hopefully get pregnant from that as well as some extra embryos for a chance at a second child later.  I'd almost be sad that I won't get the opportunity to bank more embryos this summer if I'm pregnant.  So, uh, win-win?

At the moment (subject to change of course), I'm not as emotionally invested in this attempt as I was and will be for other attempts.

And now for the musical song stylings of OK Go which is stuck in my head for some odd reason.