Third Time Will Be The Charm

Ready to Go!!!!

Last night I peed on the OPK stick and got a smiley face, which means it had detected my LH surge and ovulation is close to occuring.  Excellent, because my IUI was scheduled for 10 o'clock this morning, just 36 hours and 15 minutes after my trigger shot.  The night felt like it lasted forever, but finally it was time to head to California IVF to see Dr. Z. 

Anxious, I got there a little early but had to wait for a bit.  By 10:15 I was in the room with my pants off climbing up onto the table and waiting paitiently for the Dr., nurse and intern to come in so we could get the party started.    It was weird, this was my third IUI and the third doctor at the clinic to do this proceedure on me.  Oh well, I'm hoping this one has the magic touch.  When my regular doctor, Dr. Lovely, told me she wasn't available to do it today, I told her, "just give me the doctor who is the best shot."  Dr. Z it is.

He's very thorough, which I appreciate.  He told me the sperm had a pre-wash motility of 22 million and post wash it was 17.3 million.  Apparently, that's pretty good.  Let's hope this 22/23 year old's sperm is agressive and seeks out those two eggs on my right side and fertilizes the heck out of them. 

With my legs in the stirrups, and my butt slid to the edge of the table, Dr. Z got down to business.  Once the speculum was locked in place, he attempted to insert the catheter into the uterus.  Apparently, mine was titlted making it difficult with the stiff catheter; so he switched to the softer catheter.  Still struggling to place the tip of it where it needed to be, cuz my darn tilted uterus, he decided it was time to use the abodimal ultrasound and see exactly how tilted that sucker was.  At this point I'm getting nervous thinking maybe I can't get pregnant cuz it's tilted. 

EUREKA!!!

After what seemed like forever, they located it on the screen and he got the catheter exactly where it needed to be.  The cool part is, since he had it up on the screen so he could see where he was going in that titled maze, I was able to see the swimmers exit the catheter and had off on there journey.  I almost wished I could watch and point them in the right direction so they could hook up with the egg.  Finally, it was done.  I dressed and headed out, reminding the girl to make sure I get an itemized receipt for tax purposes (I overheard another woman asking for one earlier).

So now I'm home relaxing, gonna do the things I love and make me happy today.  At 1 p.m. I'm going to Foot to get a massage.  When I get home, I will make cake balls.  The rest of the day will be spent on my back watching TV with the dogs while we wait on my beautiful wife to come home.  Life is good!