Woohoo!! Yesterday afternoon I got a call from my coordinator letting me know that S and J thought the meeting went just as well as I thought it did and they are excited to move forward! So hooray, we are officially matched!!!
When our match meeting ended I was feeling great! I thought it went so well and was thrilled... but then the longer I waited to hear what THEY thought, the less confident I became. I started to over analyze every word I said, replaying our hour long conversation, wondering if they thought I was a total weirdo or if I said anything to offend them, thinking about what could have possibly gone wrong. I emailed my coordinator for an update and didn't hear back. I called and it went to voice mail. I was starting to seriously panic like a maniac, HA! As it turns out, everyone thought the meeting went incredible but S was waiting for the coordinator to email her and the coordinator was waiting for S to email her... so everyone was waiting and nobody was chatting and I was just sitting here stressing for no reason (like usual haha).
So... what next?
I got a call last night from the fertility doctor letting me know that while I received medical clearance and I'm good to proceed, there was something questionable that popped up that they need me to have checked again. Womp womp. More blood work. :( I guess one of the many things they looked at was an antibody screening and it came back positive. They tested the sample to see WHAT antibody was found and it then came back negative. So.. they think it was likely a false positive in the first place, but it looks like we will be testing that again next week to be certain. Other than that, my Vitamin D levels dropped a little bit and I need to start a vitamin D supplement, but that's pretty common. Everything else is all good so now we just wait. We are officially in the legal contract phase so it's just a bunch more paperwork and sitting tight while the lawyers get everything in order for us. We should be ready to go with meds and an embryo transfer in June when we get back from Disney! So crazy how fast this process is moving along this time.
I had a long chat with S last night via text and I'm really enjoying getting to know her better. I really feel like God has His hands all over this journey and meeting S and J was exactly why none of this worked out for me years ago. :) I'm just feeling GOOD.
Friday, April 21, 2017
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Match Meeting!
I don't want to jinx it, because I haven't gotten the official word yet (hopefully soon!), but we had our match meeting this morning and I think it went really well! S and J are totally adorable and definitely two people I would LOVE to help make a baby! I feel like for the most part we are on the same page about everything, which is important. S got a little bit emotional when we first started the meeting and of course that made me emotional and I pretty much cried throughout the entire hour long video chat. So, apparently I'm already a bit hormonal. haha I also found out that I am officially cleared medically, so we are a GO, whether it be with S and J if they liked me as much as I liked them, or someone else if they decide to go a different route.
I'll update when I know more, in the mean time - cross your fingers for good news! :)
I'll update when I know more, in the mean time - cross your fingers for good news! :)
Monday, April 10, 2017
Back from LA!
Well that was a quick trip!
Basically, the whole trip was a super fast whirlwind. We landed around 8pm and got picked up from the airport and taken straight to the hotel. We checked in, got settled and made our way to the hotel restaurant for some dinner. It had been a long day of traveling so we pretty much went right to bed, in anticipation of waking up early to get ready for a day full of appointments. Wednesday was quite possibly one of the longest days of all time. We started the day with a 9am appointment at our agency where I had to take the MMPI and then Sam and I both had a lengthy interview with a psychologist. Have you ever taken the MMPI? It's an online test of 567 questions (no joke, that's legit how many there were), used to analyze your personality and see if you'd be a good fit or if you might be a little on the crazy side. Luckily, I was told I passed. Ha! We finished there around 11:30 and uber-ed over to the fertility clinic (in a Tesla! Pretty sweet if you ask my husband lol) for our 1:00 appointment there. Because it was across town, it took a while to get there and left us little time to eat lunch. We ended up walking next door to the clinic and ate at the buffet upstairs in the middle of Whole Foods. haha! The fertility clinic took blood and urine samples from both of us and then the nurse practitioner did a pretty intense medical screening on me that included a pap smear, catheter, balloon full of saline and an ultra sound. I'm not really sure what all they were checking for, but I can tell you it was pretty thorough, haha.
While we were at the doctor, I got a call letting me know that our flight that was supposed to depart for Dallas at 6:00pm had been delayed and wouldn't be leaving until 9:30pm, which meant we wouldn't be home until 3am. We tried to get switched to a different flight but nothing appeared to be working out the way we needed it to, so alas, we sat at the aiport from 3:30 until 9:30. One would think LAX would have more exciting restaurants in their terminals, but no such luck.. we were bored out of our minds. haha Not sure which was worse, the boredom at the airport or waking up the next morning at a normal hour after not getting home from the longest day ever until 4am. I'm yawning again just thinking about it.
Basically, the whole trip was a super fast whirlwind. We landed around 8pm and got picked up from the airport and taken straight to the hotel. We checked in, got settled and made our way to the hotel restaurant for some dinner. It had been a long day of traveling so we pretty much went right to bed, in anticipation of waking up early to get ready for a day full of appointments. Wednesday was quite possibly one of the longest days of all time. We started the day with a 9am appointment at our agency where I had to take the MMPI and then Sam and I both had a lengthy interview with a psychologist. Have you ever taken the MMPI? It's an online test of 567 questions (no joke, that's legit how many there were), used to analyze your personality and see if you'd be a good fit or if you might be a little on the crazy side. Luckily, I was told I passed. Ha! We finished there around 11:30 and uber-ed over to the fertility clinic (in a Tesla! Pretty sweet if you ask my husband lol) for our 1:00 appointment there. Because it was across town, it took a while to get there and left us little time to eat lunch. We ended up walking next door to the clinic and ate at the buffet upstairs in the middle of Whole Foods. haha! The fertility clinic took blood and urine samples from both of us and then the nurse practitioner did a pretty intense medical screening on me that included a pap smear, catheter, balloon full of saline and an ultra sound. I'm not really sure what all they were checking for, but I can tell you it was pretty thorough, haha.
While we were at the doctor, I got a call letting me know that our flight that was supposed to depart for Dallas at 6:00pm had been delayed and wouldn't be leaving until 9:30pm, which meant we wouldn't be home until 3am. We tried to get switched to a different flight but nothing appeared to be working out the way we needed it to, so alas, we sat at the aiport from 3:30 until 9:30. One would think LAX would have more exciting restaurants in their terminals, but no such luck.. we were bored out of our minds. haha Not sure which was worse, the boredom at the airport or waking up the next morning at a normal hour after not getting home from the longest day ever until 4am. I'm yawning again just thinking about it.
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