Green light

I have green light, Tuesday the 26th I had my appointment with the doctor here in Mexico. I had an ultrasound and my ovaries look good. So Thursday the 28th in the morning I started my medications, an injection of Menopur in the morning and another of Gonal-f in the evenings, all in the stomach, fun huh? These medications are used to induce the development of several foliculos, with the purpose of obtaining multiple eggs in a single cycle, expected approximately to get from 10–20 eggs, a woman releases only one or two eggs in a normal cycle. But why are so many eggs are needed? Of the large number of eggs obtained only a percentage will be mature, of those only some may fertilize with the semen of my husband, and hopefully a some 5 eggs can become embryos with enough cells to remove one and send it to study to see how many of these embryos have the correct number of chromosomes. The stadistics indicate that half of these embryos called blastocysts are normal. In the end we will have to wait to learn how many "normal" embryos were created. Meanwhile I have to continue my shots, which as you pass the days instead of two a week will be 3. In total will be 10 0 12 days of injections, being approximately 30 to 35 injections which my body will have to endure. The truth is that it is quite uncomfortable, sometimes painful, but I have no other option, this is the hand I was delt, so I understand it and accept it.

What is the next step? Tomorrow I have another appointment with my doctor here in Mexico, again make an ultrasound to see how much have grown my follicles with medication administered to me until now. While will do me a blood test to check my hormonal levels. Early Monday I go to Denver, and from Tuesday I will have to go daily do me my ultrasound and I draw blood, I insist, what fun.


All that I have to do is take my medicine, follow the instructions to the letter, make my prayers, cross your fingers and hope that everything goes well.

I'll leave you with some pictures of all of the medication that I have to take and inject. For those of you who are afraid of needles I recommend that you not look at the pictures, very possibly you won't sleep tonight.