Today officially starts the clock, for my donor egg IVF embryo transfer. AHH!!! I’m EXCITED, a bit nervous, and hopeful. This is not my first rodeo, and the same feelings still exist, if not a bit more on the line since it’s after stage 1 breast cancer treatments. I’m doubling down on my life, my health and going with my intuition, my dream, and my calling. I told Evan that deep down, I’ve always known that I will be a mom, one way or another, one day, it just depends on when and how. I’m confident that this gut feeling, my sixth sense is correct, and I must go with you. No matter what happens, I’ve let go, and let God, thus it’s always good, and always right.
Tomorrow we’ll get the call from Cornell as to if we’ll be doing a 3rd day or 5th days embryo transfer. Crossing my fingers, and praying hard now. I have both my brothers and their wives praying for our success, and with all of my ancestors, also on our side, I feel really good about this transfer cycle. It also helps that Dr. Kligman is really kind, a super attentive and positive person, that helps a lot too. It’s not that Dr. Pereira wasn’t before, but I have to say Dr. Kligman sounds and looks more like a fertility profit than Dr. Pereira by a lot, maybe it’s because of his older age, and his grandpa like demeanor makes me feel I’m looked after.
This morning Evan and I had to get up at 5:30 am to take the LIRR at 6:30 am to go to Grand Central for our 8:30 am sperm donation appointment. Evan’s done this twice before, but it still feels new to me, I’m not sure if it is for him, but for me it sure is. This morning the waiting rooms for the men were packed, which tells me that there are a lot more couples that have fertility issues than we can think of. Cornell is also closing shop for a month in July to clean house, so that could also be why, this might be one of the last rounds before the clean-up month. Either way, it was crowded. The lab has a lot of sperm to fertilize eggs today, and eight of them will be fertilizing our 28-year-old, Japanese donor’s eggs! I’m praying that karma can be on my side since I donated 17 years ago when I was 29, these donor eggs will be strong, healthy, and fertile to create perfectly healthy embryos to be delivered healthy at full term! Amen.
It’s doubly exciting that I am finally going to a live Taylor Swift concert for the first time this Friday at Metlife Stadium! It’s funny, last IVF cycle I had to inject fertility meds at the Gov Ball before seeing Billie Eilish live, haha… There’s something with me and needles at awesome live shows! Monica my nurse said, TS is always magical and good luck with everything, so she’ll help us have a successful implantation and pregnancy. I feel the same! I mean, if I’m SO excited and happy dancing and listening to TS live, what could go wrong?!
I will be coming back here to give updates, but in the meantime, I’m going to relax, do what I enjoy doing, and just pray.
Rajaverse 