begin process

so this is my first donation. I signed up with a couple of companies a few years back. nothing happened. in february i signed up with an L.A. based egg donation agency who advertise that they sell eggs from extraordinary donors. so they pay 8000 the first donation instead of the standard 5000. They want donors who are somewhat attractive and college educated. I got IQ tested and everything. they recorded a video of me answering questions like "My talents include...." and "something unique about me is..." and "my hobbies include..." That was horrifying. i was nervous and kept smiling funny while i was talking throughout the video. i wanna redo it now. 

I also did a ridiculous personality test designed to catch people with mental disorders. it had agree/disagree questions like, "sometimes i want to hurt people for no reason" and "sometimes i hear voices that other people dont hear" it was hilarious.

this egg donation agency targets the gay community, so when i signed up i was crossing my fingers and hoping i would get to give a sweet gay couple my eggy weggies.

I got chosen in march by a heterosexual couple who resides outside of the united states. I was bummed that they werent gay. I hope sometime in my life a gay couple wants my ovum...*sigh*

The 'intended parents' as the agency calls them probably chose me because my genetic heritage is similar to theirs.  so we began with the screening process. I worked with a lawyer to sign my egg donation agreement. The intended parents needed a surrogate, and they were looking for one. so i waited for a couple months. they found one, so we continued and I went through with the medical screening with the fertility doctor. apparently i have about 17 follicles in my ovum? cool. They took 6 or 7 of those large tubes full of blood. they even took a bunch of my husband's blood too.

Then the surrogate backed out for whatever reason. they said they have to wait to find another surrogate. Then my blood tests came back and my thyroid levels were off. My fertility doctor said it was off so slightly that it was probably subclinical - probably normal for me, but still i had to get a doctor's note saying i could go on with the egg donation process. so that delayed us yet another couple months.

I made an appointment with the gaslamp clinic in downtown san diego. I'm a naturally hyperactive person. I always have been. So when the nurse at the clinic asked me if i feel like i'm on crack all the time, i laughed. They ran thyroid panel, and the doctor there gave me a box of pills to begin taking to bring my levels back to normal. I faxed the information back to the fertility doctor and took my first pill. the next morning at 8 o'clock on the dot my fertility doctor called me enraged, that stupid doctor at the clinic had misdiagnosed me and given me the opposite medication. so i called the clinic to yell at the doctor and demand my money back, i went and got my money back, and my thyroid panel test results. My t3s were off but everything else was normal.

I made an appointment with a 'real' doctor at a normal primary care facility. the doctor there looked at my test results and felt my throat and asked me a million questions and concluded that i had a slight hypothyroidism, but because she didn't know the cause she couldn't prescribe medication, and she referred me to an endocrinologist. She said the specialist would want to run another thyroid panel, because they run their thyroid panels differently, so i gave more blood, reluctantly.

That thyroid panel came back normal. the doctor wrote me a clearance stating that my levels were normal, and the previous levels were subclinical.

By the time that nonsense was over, they had found a surrogate. It took a while for her to finish her legal contract. I waited patiently for another month. and then got an email that the surrogate had just gotten her period, and to let them know when i get mine. They're going to manipulate my menstrual cycle to sync it up with the surrogate's cycle. and then the process will begin

I started my period on 9/8