Lots going on

Where do I start? First of all, I was able to get our tentative schedule for this next IVF cycle. It took me having to call the nurses to follow up, but whatever. I will continue to take the birth control pillss until Oct. 12th and then I'll have an appt. on the 16th to make sure that my ovaries are suppressed. If all goes well, I will get the meds that day and will begin injections the following day on the 17th. I will have several monitoring appts. the following week and our tentative egg retrieval date is Oct. 28. I told my husband that it looks like I will be getting embryos for my birthday this year...I just hope they stick around and become the gift that just keeps on giving! :-) My birthday is Nov. 4th, so our embryo transfer will more than likely fall some time around my birthday.

In other news, my mom is really sick. She's been sick for the last several months but she just let on this past Sunday as to how bad it really is. She lives in a small town about 3 1/2 hours away from me, so my husband and I are bringing her here to Houston tomorrow night and I will be taking her to an appointment with a neurologist on Thursday. I have been stressing since Sunday evening trying to figure out how Chris or I would be able to take off work tomorrow to go pick my mom up, bring her back here, go to work Thursday morning, leave work to take her to the doctor's appointment, not knowing how long she's going to be here and wondering how in the heck am I supposed to endure another IVF cycle while I'm trying to shuttle my mom back and forth to appointments. All I can say is thank you God for my best friend, Morgan! Out of nowhere yesterday she called and offered to pick my mom up for me tomorrow and meet me half way to get her. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My poor little cat, Sweetpea, also has a really bad bacterial infection in her ear and I have to chase her down twice a day to put medicine in her ear that she hates. Ugh. Why does life always have to happen all at once? I think Chris might have to ship me off to the looney bin after this...I wonder if I can blog from there??? :-)