The Journey to LIT #2 Begins

Tomorrow we're leaving for Tucson on a 9AM flight. Short layover at LAX, grab a Bux Decaf Soy Latte, and back on a plane. We'll arrive in Tucson about 1ish, secure our rental car, and go check out downtown Tucson. Is there anything to see or do there? It's going to be blazing hot. Not sure if the heat will be condusive to being touristy.

After that we'll head south...stop by the San Xavier del Bac Mission. A Saint is buried there in a clear glass casket and people come from all over to pray for things. I'm not religious anymore, but being raised Catholic I still saw fit to ask the monks to put my prayer for a baby of my own flesh and blood, which they promise to put in with the Saint's remains.

After that I think we're just heading to the hotel, where we'll be lodging for two nights. A fellow infertile, M and her DH, both patients of DB will be there as they're doing the LIT thing, too. In the morning we'll make the 10 or 15 minute drive to Nogales and wait for Dr. Quiroga to fetch us from the infamous McDonalds. Yet another infertile, LL and her DH, are driving from Palm Springs and will meet us there as well. There might be other couples from elsewhere in the country, but we haven't heard yet if there are others. It will be interesting to meet the other two couples. Perhaps we'll hang out in a bar while we wait for our LITs to be prepared and chat about our stories over some cold cervesas.

At any rate, this trip is doing double-duty for us as a medical and anniversary trip. Monday is our 6 year anniversary. 6 years since the day that J and I met. I'm still utterly smitten with him and hope that he is as well. The story of how we met is a story unto itself and maybe I'll post about it on Monday.

Hopefully this is the last LIT we'll need in order to do our FET next month. My B and T IgG cells both went up with the first LIT, but not enough that I could get away with just one treatment. It's actually less than a month until the embryos are going back in, but in a way it seems so far away in a surreal sort of way, as there is just so much to be done between now and then. I can't even get my mind around it yet.

Dr. S, DB's replacement, thinks we might want to wait for yet one more month to pass by because he thought I'd need to do an IVIg **before** our next LAD results would be in...but his assistant said it's really not necessary to do a preliminary IVIg with a FET (we're not being exposed to all of the stims that can cause an NK flare) and reassured me we could procede next month with a mere IVIg 2 days before transfer. Mere IVIg my ass...at $2015 a pop it's no mere treatment. But a big relief about not needing two of them. If those test results come in and say my LADs are still dismal, we can cancel the FET and head to Nogales one more time. Ugh. I'm not sure I have the patience to wait, or to make another trip to Nogales, though. That 42nd birthday is coming up way too fast for me.