Rosie - going back to North America for a year or two? Wow. That's tough. I have a friend who just left to go back to the USA for an academic year (9-10 months - from Sept to June). They had to find a place to live there, find a job for her (husband is in school), rent out their apartment here, give up their jobs here, leave their car here, go somewhere they don't know anyone -- it's a bit nuts!
I'm on Meuhedet -- it took us a long time to get from our diagnosis of severe MFI until our first IVF (about 6 months) because they kept adding more and more things we had to do first. I wish there was a list of all the tests you have to do to get approved for IVF. We would do one test, wait 6 weeks for the results and then be told that we had to do another test and wait another 6 weeks for results, etc. We could have overlapped a bunch of the testing. It was super annoying. --- Your husband will be in reserve duty while you are cycling? He should ask his commander about any benefits he can get because you are cycling. My husband was drafted and was in basic training for my first cycle -- he was allowed to come home for the ER and ET. Then, he got assigned a station right near home, because of the treatments.
Fruit - I always copy the entire post before I hit 'submit'. This website has quite a few 'gremlins'! I hear ya on the planning and waiting.... I hope the new RE has some answers.
Toniaa - I'm sorry you didn't get any to freeze - but congrats on transferring 2 great embryos! Good luck!
Anton - Have you tried a recruitment/head-hunter company? That was going to be my next step in my job search. -- Warning about watching Modern Family though -- Mitchell and Cameron are adopting another baby. I hate how they make it sound so easy and quick to just adopt another baby. Ugh. -- Have fun at IKEA. I'm avoiding IKEA at the moment, even though a few friends of mine want to make a trip there. Last time I was there, I was shopping for cribs and baby stuff. I know my friends will want to stop in the kid's section (1 is pregnant and the other has a 1mo daughter) and I can't deal with that right now. We bought 2 little blue cribs there in July on sale... and I had my MIL go to return them in August.
I can't deal with IKEA right now...
Catherine - welcome! 32 eggs and nothing to transfer??? That is horrible! I'm so sorry! Are you staying with the same RE? Did he explain WTF happened?
Kamina - I think that dealing with IVF is a full time job in and of itself -- anything else I do is just on top of that
So work needs to be chill. I don't mind busy and deadlines and stress at work --- but I don't have any more emotional effort to invest. So I work hard at work, but I don't have any personal investment in it. That way, it's distracting, but not sucking more of my heart and soul. --- 30 vials of blood? WOW! That's nuts! --- I'm so sorry to hear about your dad....
Felicia - no biopsy yesterday - but I had one on CD10 and I'm having another on Sunday (not becuase they are checking for anything, but because I'm part of a study to test if doing endo biopsies the month before transfer can improve pregnancy rates). Those freaking HURT! --- I wish I could tell you what the cramping meant -- but it could either mean BFP or BFN. 2 more days!
Lauren - we have almost the same name! My hebrew name is Chava Leora
I was raised really religious (ie, private day school, synagogue every weekend, observing all the holidays, keeping kosher, etc) -- but now I'm not really sure what I feel about religion/God. Today starts Rosh Hashana, but instead of doing festive meals and prayers - we are taking the weekend off to go to the beach. -- yeah, isn't it nuts that I've had a C-section? I always forget that, until I see myself nude in the mirror. I can't believe I have this big ,ugly scar. Ugh. ---- I live in Jerusalem, where pregnant women and strollers with babies are EVERYWHERE. I can't step outside my house without seeing one. I see the ultra-orthodox Meah Shearim women with 10 kids hanging off of a single, crappy stroller and I wonder if this is really God being fair
Maria - lizards are great, btw. We have lizards and other creepies here, and I try to invite them into my house. Lizards *eat* mosquitoes and other bugs. I also try to 'cultivate' spiders and their webs to help get rid of bugs. Maybe I'm just weird
Akdelp -WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO! On my last cycle, I got the faintest faintest BFP on 5dp5dt -- and sure enough, I was pregnant! I'm so excited for you! Keep POAS and tell us how it goes! I'm waiting to cycle, so I'm living vicariously through you!
AFM - tonight starts the Jewish New Year. I'm so sick of it. 3 years ago, we were just figuring out that I wasn't ovulating right - but we were confident that I would get pregnant in the upcoming year. Instead, we had a diagnosis of infertility, months of testing and finally our first IVF cycle. 2 years ago, I was 10 weeks pregnant with twins. We were sure that we would finally have the family we wanted and that the year could only be better. But then we lost our twins at 22 weeks, and had 2 failed FETs before finally getting pregnant again. Last year, I was carrying a baby that I knew had already died. I had dealt with losing our twins, failed cycles and now a miscarriage - surely the upcoming year would be better. How could it be worse? But in the past year, we've had another failed cycle and our boys being born so premature and passing away. ****.
I keep thinking - 'well, this upcoming year HAS to be better? How could things get worse?" and then I remember that I've told myself the same exact thing for the last 3 years. I'm terrified how things are going to become worse this year....
Instead of observing the holiday (which would include hours and hours of synagogue time with special prayers to ask forgiveness and for good things in the upcoming year - ugh) -- we are going to stay at a friend's empty apartment on the beach (she is with her parents for the holiday). Now I'm supposed to be packing (but instead, I'm writing to y'all!)
I'll be gone for a few days -- I'll be back Saturday night. Sunday I have another biopsy and I start work!
So much good stuff happening on here in the next few days - I hope I come back to great news!
UPDATE NEEDED
It must be frustrating not knowing the reasons why. Good luck on your job. I'm sure you will taking the office over in no time. lol. I also took a step down during this time. I was a eng mgr. and covered us, Taiwan, and India. Now I do facials 3 days a week. Over qualified but I have inner peace. And know that in my heart I did all I could do to have this baby. I will not have regrets. Once you have the child you can get a stressful job, or not.
. In terms of PGD, I do it with all my cycles because my DH and I both carry the sickle cell trait. In my case, I will have to have an amnio or other testing just to ensure my little ones are sickle free. In your case, what is it that they are looking for? I think that will determine if it is worth it. I pray that you get good news tomorrow. The progesterone is not that bad 
. Congrats on the job!
