Gaylord Focker???
April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I’m hoping you have all seen the movie Meet The Parents or Meet the Fockers, so you’ll get the humor of the title of this post. In short, Ben Stiller plays a male nurse in the movies and he gets ridiculed for his choice of career. I think if I chose the career path of being a nurse one of two things would have happened. People would have made fun of me too or I would have been horrible at it.
We are two days into giving Kyla’s stimulation medications (in the phanny, no less) and I am hoping my technique gets better over the next few days. Hearing a big “Oouucchh!!!” last night wasn’t what I was shooting for. Ha ha 
I guess that it is going pretty well overall. Kyla is feeling quite achy all over her body, so we are not sure if this is a side effect of the medications or something else.
The procedures we have to go through to get these shots prepared is quite extensive. First, we get out two little bottles of medication that make Menopur (one is powder, the other liquid), a pen-shaped syringe that contains the medication Gonal-F, a large syringe with two different sized needles for it and some alcohol pads. From here, we have to mix the two little bottles of Menopur together and then add in the exact amount of the Gonal-F Medication. After that, we draw all of this combined medication back into the big ole syringe and get Kyla’s phanny ready for the shot. Thankfully, we switch to a smaller needle to actually give the shot…but it’s still quite large in my eyes.
A funny side note…When Kyla was at the Doctors office this past Thursday, the 17th, the nurse grabbed a big magic marker and drew two big circles on Kyla’s rear so I would have a target to hit. Thank God for that!! The first night I was down and to the left of the center of the circle, but last night I got a BULLSEYE!!!
Overall, I think we are both very excited and feel so blessed to be going through all of this together. Kyla is handling all the stress and shots in such an amazing way. It’s truly a testament to her strength and her willingness to let God be in control.
Thank you all for your continued support.
FINALLY!!!!
April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The T-Shirts have FINALLY arrived and they look awesome! We have already received a few orders, so we hope you will all get on board and help us out with a donation and get yourselves a Pollock Family Tree T-Shirt. For those of you that have already received your shirts, please send us a picture of yourself in the shirts and we’ll be posting them in the “Photos” section of this website. We truly feel grateful for all of your love and support! THANK YOU!
Dodging a bullet
April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
This morning, I had an appointment for an ultrasound and blood work. Going into it, I thought that these routine tests were just to take a “before picture” of my hormone levels and uterus before starting on the stimulation medications tomorrow. The nurse practitioner came in to do the ultrasound and explained that the blood test is to measure my estrogen level and the ultrasound is to check the lining of my uterus and make sure there is nothing else going on that might get in the way of becoming pregnant.
During the ultrasound, she found 2 large cysts on my right ovary and 2 small cysts on my left ovary. Not good news. She said that the doctor would want to aspirate these cysts before we could move forward with anything. My eyes must have bulged out of my head, because she quickly started to try to comfort me by saying that cysts are very common and that we just need to wait for the results of the blood test to see if they can do the aspiration tomorrow (Friday). If the blood test came back with bad results, my IVF cycle would be placed on hold for another month. I asked her to explain everything to me, as I knew I would be calling Collin as soon as I left and I wanted to make sure I could explain it to him. Long story short, they wanted to see a low estrogen level so that they could be sure that my body was ready to start taking stimulation drugs. If my estrogen level was too high, I would stop all medication, and go on the birth control pill (kind of an oxymoron for our situation, huh?) until my estrogen level lowered. My nurse told me that she would call me later to let me know what the blood results were.
I called Collin and cried most of the way to work, so terrified that our cycle might be put on hold for another month. I’m sure you’re thinking that a month isn’t very long at all, but to me, at this point, pumped full of hormones, it seems like an eternity. My wonderful husband filled me up with encouragement, love and support. Have I ever said how much I love him?
Thankfully, my day at work went by very quickly as I was busy with training and meetings and all that wonderful work stuff. 5:00 came and I was on pins and needles that I hadn’t heard back from my nurse. The doctors office was closed and I still didn’t know if I was having my cysts aspirated tomorrow, or if our IVF cycle was canceled. At 5:20, my nurse called me and said that my estrogen level was at 33 (they wanted to see anything under 2oo!!!) and that I had an appointment to have my cysts aspirated tomorrow! I screamed and almost started crying again, but I held it together this time.
Everything is a go and tomorrow night, we start my stimulation medications - Gonal F and Menopur. These are intra-muscular, which means that Collin gets to start giving me big shots in the butt. As nervous as I am about these new shots, I’m so excited that we get to move forward with our cycle.
This was a scary day for me, but once again, God proved to be faithful. Our friend Illi posted a comment with the following verse from Jeremiah: “I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. That pretty much sums it all up.
We’ll let you know how tomorrow’s shot goes. Thank you for your continued prayer and support.
Kyla
Update on T-Shirts
April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I wanted to update everyone on the status of our Pollock Family Tree T-Shirts. I talked to the screen printing company yesterday and they have delayed our shipment until Monday the 14th. As it looks now, we’ll probably have the shirts by the 16th or 17th if the company’s “2-3 days shipping” stands true. I was pretty bummed, because I thought we would have them by now.
We ordered a limited amount of each size, so make sure to pre-order the size you want.
Thanks to all of you who have already ordered your shirts. We’ll get them sent out to you as soon as they come in.
Have a great weekend! God Bless!
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