Well, Hello Dr. H, Very Nice to See You

As I waited in the exam room for my suppression check yesterday, I really had no idea what medical professional would walk through the door. Nurse S, who performed my mock transfer, doppler and SIS? One of the other 3 REs who make up the practice? or will it actually be Dr. H this time? I'm at a great clinic, but so far I have only seen, only met, my RE, Dr H., once. This was at our consultation way back in March. F and I have joked that we we may make it through the entire IVF cycle without ever seeing Dr. H.

At the IVF orientation the nurses explained that our protocols are decided by the entire IVF team. They sit around a table and go over our charts and histories. I felt important for a moment imagining this. And wished there was a picture of F and I to go along with our chart so that Dr. H, who could not possibly remember us, could at least know what we looked like (when he was making decisions about a patient's treatment whom he had never seen in the exam room).

On a side note, I wonder if at follow up meetings to discuss patients' progress, if the doctors and nurses discuss the variety and assortment of socks encountered in the day's or week's appointments. I wonder this because my socks seem to be discussed more in the exam room than what we are looking at on the ultrasound monitor. The routine of sock discussion has to get old for them, no? Does every monitoring appointment start with, Nurse: "Oh, I like your socks." RE: "We see some great socks around here."

It was Dr. H who walked through the exam room door, who agreed that he liked my socks, and who told me everything looked good to start stims on Saturday the 19th, as long as my E2 looked good as well. It did; the bloodwork came back at 24.

I am sufficiently suppressed!

Saturday morning I start with 2 vials of Menopur, then 300 iu of Follistim at night and continue the Lupron, dexamethasone and aspirin as well.