Nerves shot...transfer over

We did the transfer yesterday and we're now in the two week wait (only one week and six days after today but hey who's counting). It all went well in the end despite the mess Dr. Stonehenge's office made of things. The clinic who washed the sperm couldn't have been nicer and more patient with us and blamed the doctor for not offering us the proper proctocol. They went out of their way to help us and made me want to reach over and hug them and gush "Oh my god thank you so much you guys are AMAZING!" But I kept my reserve and just said thank you about 100 times.

Among the many things Dr. Stonehenge should have done but didn't was of course ordering the bloodwork on both of us. He did simply assume that we had our bloodwork updated and yet we didn't. My flying to the local lab with a very old prescription the other day to quickly do mine saved us because they were able to look up the results using some kind of global browser that allows you to find results as soon as they're ready.* Seb had to do his bloodwork there on the spot and we had to wait until 4pm for the results. There was also lots of missing paperwork and the lab staff just shook their heads and said, "you don't just stimulate a poor client and send them off with the wrong papers hoping for the best..." This is exactly what I was trying to tell the SUCKretary at Henge's office and I was glad that they thought his his staff was incompetent too and it wasn't just me.

We retrieved the sperm at four o'clock and rushed back to Dr. Stonehenge's office for a rather late transfer. I think we missed it in all honesty. We triggered the egg at 8:30am on Monday and couldn't do the transfer until 5:30pm on Tuesday because of all the missing papers. I think that's late in the game. Also I had lots of EWCM Moday and Tuesday morning as I'd had for days, but right before the transfer it had pretty much stopped. This morning it's completely gone and temps are starting to rise.

We bd'd the night before the IUI because I was pretty sure that everything wouldn't go as planned. I was happy that we'd done that in spite of the fact that it might mess up Seb's results the next day. Ironically he had really good results so it didn't mess anything up. So there is a very good argument for bd'ing every day leading up to ovulation instead of every other day like some doctors suggest.

Here we are in a two week wait again. I don't feel more optimistic than a usual two week wait. I feel normal. I feel eager to get past all this IUI crap and get on with the real deal; the IVF. I feel like the bad little girl who has to eat all of her vegetables before getting dessert.

I'm pouting.

*Strangely the lab told me that there is a woman in the system with my exact same name who lives in my town and is using the local lab I use. She was born the same year as me but with a birthdate 11 days before mine. Now tell me isn't that weird? I've always wondered why they make me repeat my name and address over and over.