Good meeting with Dr. N. on Friday. He and Y, the nurse, seemed really glad we are trying again, and I'm not going to be cynical enough to think they're just glad for the money. At any rate, he went over what we did the last time and the things he's going to change, i.e., not reducing the hormones before egg retrieval, taking a blood draw tomorrow to check me for any possible pre-diabetic tendencies (I'm not expecting anything to show up), and he asked me several questions about my cycle and any possible changes. He expects to get about the same number of eggs (we got 17 last year, 13 were mature and I'm not positive, but I think 11 fertilized.--Yet, nothing to freeze and no babies. Ah, well). My GYN told me in May that she'd had dinner with Dr. N. recently and he'd told her that they always do ultrasound-guided transfer now, and their success rates had gone up, which is part of what spurred us on to do it again. I didn't memorize all the numbers but the lowest one he showed me was 42%, which sounds very good to me, although I'd feel better if were 52%. I'm feeling very calm about this this time, but excited at the same time.

One of the best things about this cycle is that we should get a lot of the Gonal-F (follicle stimulating hormone) we'll be using FREE!!! Especially since the Jeopardy money is all gone (easy come, easy go), and most of this will be financed with credit cards and home equity line. I can't eat or drink anything after midnight tonight for my blood test tomorrow, and I'm going to have a mock transfer on Thursday. That's lots of fun, I have to go in with a full bladder while they poke my cervix and map out my uterus. Wheee!!!!