CD14: IVIG Day

Long day.

The kids are now on their morning "school schedule" and woke us up at the crack of dawn. Arrgh. It was 7:30 by the time I dared ask what time it was. The alarm was set for 8:00 so there was really little hope of catching any more sleep.

Got up and made the kids breakfast, dressed, and ran out the door to catch the light rail to the infusion center. My infusion appointment was at 9:30 or 9:45 but I was really early and showed up at 9:15. I don't know how I was SO early but I was kicking myself for the lost sleep.

I waited for TWO whole hours for them to finally hook me up to the IV and then it took another THREE hours to drip the 30g of IgG into my arm. By 3:00 I was back home, ravenous, on edge. Also contributing to my edginess was the fact that I started taking steroids again a day or two ago. I hate these things. I react so terribly to them. I've already caught myself snapping and second guessing myself for having moved to the east coast.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

Blue in. Red out.

Had a leisurely lunch and then headed to the pharmacy to pick up some low dose steroids and thyroxine, courtest of the reproductive immunologist. I said I'd never do steroids again, but I think I'm losing my senses at this point.

I'm really sorta edgy to find out how many embryos survived these last few days. If I have all four left I'll be totally shocked. But wouldn't that be great?