Good news and bad news, all in the same day

I had my first ultrasound to check my cervix on Friday afternoon. All is well. My cervix is measuring a little over 4 cm and is tightly closed. Of course this was a transvaginal ultrasound and I guess, at this point, the uterus has moved up so much that it didn't show the baby. So, when the ultrasound tech finished, I said something like, "I guess we don't get to see the baby with this kind of scan, huh?" But the tech was so cute (with her Chinese accent) and said, "oh yes, we always check baby." And proceeded to do an abdominal scan. Yay! She was in breech position, sitting upright. She checked a few things, pointing out kidneys, stomach, etc. The cutest picture was one of the bottom of her foot - where you could clearly count all 5 toes! We came home with a picture of that and a profile pic.

As soon as I got home, however, my sister called. This is donor sister. And she told me that they had found a 'calcification' at her first mammogram and because she doesn't have enough breast tissue to do a needle biopsy, they're going to have to schedule an excision biopsy (surgery, basically) to get to it and diagnose it. Ugh. Her first concern, of course, was to tell me that this might delay her stimulation cycle. She is currently on b.c. pills and schedule for her 'Lupron evaluation' (even though she's not going to be taking Lupron) on May 2 with stims predicted to start May 4. But as of Friday afternoon her consultation appointment with the surgeon was scheduled Monday, April 25 and who knows when they'll get her in for the procedure.

Of course, of course, of course, I want all of this taken care of before we even think of proceeding with the stim cycle and egg retrieval. I even suggested to my sister that I'd call Dr.Dry and inform him and she could stop the bc pills right now. But she wants to keep on them. Just in case she can get this thing excised before May 4 and can keep on schedule.

Mr.Right and I talked about it Friday night on the drive back to his mother's (I had been with her all last week for her foot surgery last Tuesday morning and had driven home Friday morning for the ultrasound appointment and to drive back up to her house with him on Friday night.) He offered to call in some chits with surgeons he knows in his area and even a breast surgeon in the city with whom his sister worked and for whom the wife of a very good friend (from residency) works as a surgeon. We called my sister just to offer to see if Mr.Right could get her an earlier consultation and perhaps, therefore, an earlier date for the procedure. We didn't want to make her feel like we were doing this to pressure her and keep the stim cycle on schedule --- I really don't care about this at this point. But the other factor is that my BIL is actually supposed to leave that first week in May for a month. Every year he goes to Canada for the month of May to do surveying for wildlife. And I just can't imagine that they want him to be gone before she has the procedure/gets the path results. I would be a wreck if that were me.

I had a little cry as soon as we got in the car on Friday night on the way to my MIL's. I know this is probably nothing. My mom also had calcifications that they watched for years until they finally did (when she was 48) do a lumpectomy and then radiation. But there's some question now whether they would even do that now for the kind of intraductal 'tumor' that she had. This is why my sister and I both have started with annual mammograms before age 40 (I was 38, my sister is just going to turn 37 this July). I know it's going to be ok. I just don't want to see her having to go through all this stress.

Anyhow, in the meantime, I'm seemingly becoming a normal pregnant person. My first shower was even scheduled yesterday (for July 9). More on all of that later.