Puppy Love

Ok, I had to share a picture (finally! first pic on blog - other than my profile pic). We are in love :-) Her name is Jessie and she only had to get up and go out one time last night (at 2:30 a.m.)!

In other news (wait, there's anything else going on here than staring at the cute puppy?!?), it's CD5 and it will be 3rd night of 100mg clomid tonight. Minor confusion at my clinic on Sunday re: my bloodwork. Apparently, it was called "day 3 bloodwork" (where typically they'd do at least LH, e2, etc.), but my nurse had only ordered a beta. Of course, I'd just had a beta last Monday (which was, of course, negative). The Sunday on-call nurse was confused. I was confused. And the on-call nurse did send back to the lab for LH and e2 on the blood.

Yesterday, my nurse clarified that, yes, she only ordered a beta. Our Dr. didn't need the other tests this month. Ok, that's fine, but you could have told me, right? (and maybe clarified it in the notes for the on-call folks.)

I'm a little worried about our nurse (first round with her...lost my original nurse during the time I was pregnant to another office of our clinic). She's detailed-oriented, but she doesn't quite use an extra brain cell to think things through past the 'routine.' And since my protocol is so unusual (she admitted to me), using an extra brain cell or two to think it through might be the difference between her screwing something up and not. (In addition, the order she forgot until last week to send to Freedom for Ovidrel was dated 2009 instead of 2010, creating a 3 day delay in getting it.)

Luckily, neither of the 'mistakes' have been of any consequence at this point, because we're preventing getting pregnant this month and I was able to get started on clomid Sunday night despite the confusion on Sunday about exactly what tests were supposed to have been run on my bloodwork.

I did take the chance to clarify with our nurse that this was a pretty high-stakes cycle for us, for which we were going to be paying a lot of money (esp. given the plan for PGD) and which might possibly be the last one with my eggs. I stressed that I wanted to know exactly what was being ordered and done in each step from here on out. So, next step: day 11 (Monday) b/w (LH, progesterone) and u/s to decide when to tell me to trigger with Ovidrel (so we can do nothing) and then start with Vivelle patches (and 2 days of Ganirelix).

I guess I think our nurse is actually ok, just not much of an 'outside the box' thinker. And I'm trying to be ok with this. I know from my work experience managing a number of different people that I tend to be fairly demanding about competence and intelligence in the people who work for me. Even though we're paying what seems like gazillions of dollars for all of this, I suspect the RNs are not all that well paid. It still bugs me that I have to be so vigilant when I'm paying them to do things right the first time. Oh well, back to puppy time. :-)