Well, it seems everything is a go for Saturday!

My follicles are getting bigger.
The swimmers are ordered and on their way.
I've got my appointment set up with my doctor.

Now all I have to do is give myself a big shot. Yeah..... It shouldn't be a big deal. I mean, I give my cat a shot twice a day. Of course, her needles are much smaller. And I just put some food in front of her and give them to her in the scruff of her neck. But I don't have a scruff and I couldn't reach it even if I had one. So, I don't know how this is going to go. Food seems to distract Janie. Maybe if I put a bowl of chocolate ice cream in front of me, I won't notice. It can't hurt........

Free to a good home?

Thanks for all the good thoughts!!!!!!

I found out today that I have 4 follicles. 4, four, quatre, quatro, I wish I knew 4 in a few more languages, Holycrapfortheloveofpete 4! That is 4 little bubbles - each holding one egg that, if fertilized, could become a kid!!!!! That's like having a litter of puppies!!!!! So, I'm lining up folks who want an extra kid! Any takers?

Kidding aside, they need a couple extra days to get big and fat before they'll subject them to the onslaught of swimmers. So, I go back on Thursday for another ultra-sound and the plan is to thaw out DD (daddy donor) on Saturday. Actually, I've named him Finn. More on him tomorrow.

I am trying to reassure myself that a couple of the follicles still won't be big enough to be viable by Saturday. Still, 2 should be of the appropriate size. Also, the ultrasound technician assured me that the chances of twins is only about 5%. Come on 95%!!!!!! PLEASE 95%!!!!!!!!

Speaking of the lab technician, would any of you find it strange if someone was doing an internal ultrasound on you and they said, "I can't find your right ovary."? I felt like saying, "Well if you can't find it, I'm sure I don't know what happened to it. I don't think I left it anywhere." It just struck me as odd. Anyway, my left one seems to be doing most of the work. I'm hoping that is a sign that I'm going to have lefty-liberals for kids. Dad says he doesn't believe there is a correlation. But I'm a believer in nature over nurture in many things.

The roller coaster car is getting closer to the top of the hill......

First, I'd like to thank everyone for sending me such great support since my last post. It has been such a great help to me.

Since then, things have continued along in the preggers process.

I finally picked a donor - even though he was not one of the ones that went through the "friend screening process". More on him later.

I've got all of my paperwork in to the sperm bank. You've got to sign all kinds of stuff - I guess they want to be sure you can't sue them later if you give birth to the spawn of Satan or something.

I've been on meds for the past week so my dusty old egg might actually work.

I go to the doctor tomorrow for an ultrasound to look at that egg and see if it's big enough for a swimmer to actually find it.

If it is, then I give myself a shot sometime tomorrow or Wed. and then go try to get knocked up on Thursday! More on this later as well.

Keep your fingers crossed for me this week! I'll be writing more on all this in the next few days.