calendars

So i'm still taking the birth control pills. i had my period and they started me on a new pack, then figured out a calendar - the plan, pretty much.

so i'm going to begin injecting lupron on the 15th of june. i take my last birth control pill on the 19th. on the 22nd i should expect a period. then i go in for my first lab appointment to do the FDA required tissue donation paperwork and check my estradiol levels. on the 27th, assuming everything looks normal, i'll begin injecting follistim and menopur as well as lupron. that goes for 5 days, then i have my first ultrasound on july 2nd. depending on how that looks, they may adjust my hormonal injections, and then i have another ultrasound on the 6th. and if the eggs look ripe and mature, my extraction date (depending on how the ultrasounds looks) will be on july 8th or 9th or 10th. so thats the official plan. my fertility doctor sent the prescription for the follicle stimulating hormones to the pharmacy and told me to call them. i called and left a message. last donation, they sent all the drugs in a refrigerated styrofoam box and scheduled a time for the delivery. i should try to call them again.

now the part i have to worry about, is making sure my workplace remembers to give me time off. last time it was really stressful for me to cover my shifts. somebody needs to go with me to the extraction surgery. so i need to make sure my husband can get time off work too. or somebody else.

I spoke with my family lawyer guy, he read the egg donor contract to me (and my husband) over speakerphone, and the next step is for me to mail the signed printed out copies of the contract back to his office. I'm still waiting for the final contract to get emailed to me.

at this point i only have 11 days until i begin starting injections. this is gonna sneak up on me fast. i've been really good about taking my vitamins and stuff. i gotta start calling my friends in L.A. now that i know what dates i'll be there. make some post appointment plans.

we are now entering the alcohol free and abstinence only phase. so i gotta transition my mind to straight-edge mentality and channel my sexual energy into more productive things.

i've been making long term plans about the money. this time around, the compensation is $10,000.00. last time it was $8,000.00 and i managed to blow it all on really fancy stuff, like this nice laptop and expensive digital design software and necessary dental work and car stuff and debt relief and a bunch of little things that, in retrospect, i think i would have been better off if i hadn't spent it so fast. 10,000 seems like a lot more money, but its not really. i could have saved that 8,000, and saved up a couple thousand on my own, and by now i'd have 20,000 with the 2 donations. I'm thinking about bigger things, like a down payment on a house. so for this donation, i'm cashing the check into my savings and just adding to it until i find a house i like enough to buy. mortgage payments are cheaper than rent. its almost tempting to donate eggs several more times just for the money for a house down payment. my case coordinator already told me that after this donation, i would likely get chosen again and again and again. but would i want to? i wanna have my own kids, and not quadruplets. i also worry about my own reproductive health, taking hormones and all. i'm not entirely convinced multiple donations are a healthy idea for my ovaries or cervix. another thing, i wonder if i'm going to go through menopause earlier in life, because of the overstimulation of my ovum? after the last donation i felt the sensation i was ovulating more than usual. could have just been the healing.
hmm.