CD4Day Before Surgery

So surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 11am. I'm due to arrive half an hour early, empty stomach, sans contact lenses, jewelry, etc. The BF will pick me up in the car at some point to be determined.

They're going to aspirate the cyst on the left ovary, asprirate the endometrioma (chocolate cyst) and flush it with a tetracycline wash to assist it in healing, and then they are going to do an HSG to see if the fibroid that we partly dealt with in late July is in fact still behaving.

I'm still sorta stunned that it all came together as fast as it did.

I guess the fibroid is the limiting step. If it's still there, I'll continue with the cycle but I'll freeze everything and then head to SF in November to do the full blown surgery. I'll return and do another course of IVF or two, banking embryos as I go.

When I have enough, I'll do CGH testing to determine which are good and then I'll transfer those.

As a side note, I'm currently interviewing for a dream job in NYC right now and I am thinking that if I get it, it might make sense to go the gestational surrogate route rather than fight my immune system AND the stress of a new job.

I posted an add on one of the surrogate websites to see what I could get. If I could find a gal outside of an agency, willing to carry my embryos for $20K, I think I'd do it in a heartbeat. But NYC has rather inhospitable rules/laws with respect to surrogacy. Surrogate contracts that include compensation are not valid in the state. It seems that you need to look to the state in which the surrogate lives in order to determine which laws come into play. Here in the tri state area it gets confusing as there are many states in distance of each other. I live in NJ, but I will likely be working (and cycling) and delivering in NY. PA and CT are within two hours of me. They have their own rules and regulations. It gets confusing. I'm just now starting to seriously consider this route and it's daunting. Agencies and lawyers all want a cut of the action (ie, money) and that's just so incredibly frustrating when I've already spent a small fortune when I didn't have IVF coverage.

So, I am starting to feel that I might be at a crossroads...I will likely have to decide in the space of a week or so if I am going to get serious about a gestational surrogate.

11DP3DT

This morning I switched from the nasty POAS that say "pregnant" or "not pregnant" to the ones that just have one or two pink lines.

Only one line.

Tomorrow's the official beta day. I don't expect anything miraculous to happen obviously.

Ordered a case of wine from Cameron Hughes in preparation for the news. I don't think it'll arrive by tomorrow, but just knowing that I have a case of wine coming from California is a mood altering fact in and of itself.

Endo surgery is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, December 2nd, with Dr. Persian in Palo Alto. I've got to get my records and doctor's notes (ultrasounds, prior surgical reports, etc) to his office ASAP. My calendar show that I've got time to do a cycle in between now and then, so if the Big Apple docs will let me go right into another cycle, I will.

More tomorrow.