donate my eggs

so. good news and bad news. which first? good news? okay.

i had my appointment today and everything was good on the genetic tests they ran (may i remind everyone that this was EIGHT vials worth of blood. EIGHT. EIGHT?! eight) and apparently i am healthy, healthy, healthy. yay.

bad news: my IP couple backed out at the last minute. apparently they want to wait for a few months. so i’m still in a holding pattern. sigh. the clinic has reactivated my status as an available donor though, and i’m totally ready to go (no more tests or anything left to do here—makes me a much more attractive choice to potential couples). they say they expect me to be a very popular donor, so hopefully i’ll be chosen in the next week or two.

so yeah. yay for having no diseases, boo for couple backing out for now. and i have no more tests to do, since today they did my final fertility test (it was a blood draw). not worried about the results of that one at all, so now it’s just a waiting game again.

my period has arrived! so thrilled. i was seriously worried there. there was a bit of a mishap with the whole part about how i started it in the car on the way somewhere and i had blood on my skirt when i arrived and then i had to quickly run to the bathroom and wash it out as soon as i could and hold my breath and wait until it finally complied with my harried demand of “out, damn spot.” but that would be overshare, so we won’t get into that.

suffice it to say, it is here; i am glad; i will call the clinic and find out what the next step is in a few hours.

EDIT: called the clinic. have 8 am appointment tomorrow. update later.

EDIT NO. 2: tomorrow morning i get the results of my blood tests and get my final fertility test.

i don’t know of any genetic illnesses, so i’m not particularly concerned about the blood tests, i just want confirmation on that. and i KNOW i’m absurdly fertile, so i have no worries about the final fertility test. all i want to hear is that my blood tests came back perfectly clear and the IP couple is still on board.

crossing my fingers til tomorrow

stupid eggos.

my period STILL hasn’t come. i know i’m not pregnant. i’ve taken two tests and had a vaginal ultrasound. it’s just taking forEVER for my period to come. and i can’t do anything more until it comes. sigh. i’m piissssseeeddd.

thinking i’ll try the vitamin c route today and then go to town with the Waterproof Bunny of Happiness tomorrow….

(still).

I called the clinic yesterday to ask about my blood rests, but the woman I needed to speak to was on vacation. Meaning that until January 5, I cannot find out about blood tests I had done on December 12. Annoying. The one up side is that my ob/gyn’s office will take until then to get the medical records transferred.

Still just waiting for my period. I took a pregnancy test just to reassure myself, but i think i’m going to do it one more time to double check. i know, i know. paranoia strikes again.

what if i’m pregnant and don’t know it and therefore can’t donate?

what if the recipient couple backs out?

what if i can’t do the self-injections?

strictly speaking, they aren’t baseless worries. i mean, i have had sex recently enough that i could be pregnant without knowing it. i think i’m gonna get a pregnancy test just to make myself stop worrying.

the self-injection thing could be a trouble though. gotta get over my fear of needles. maybe i could even get into heroin after this. who knows. the possibilities are endless…

i’m inching closer, step by step. one more baby step today: finally faxed my release of medical records form over to my ob/gyn’s office. i shouldn’t have waited so long—apparently it takes 5-7 days for them to fax my info to the fertility clinic, so it will definitely be after the new year. now it’s a waiting game. i’m waiting for results from the blood tests and waiting for my period to start so that i can get my 3rd day test.

i’ve never actively wanted my period to begin. it’s a weird feeling to betray my habitual emotional patterns.

I just got off the phone with my genetic counselor, who said there was nothing in my genetic history that should interfere with my donation! Now I just need to hear back on the blood tests (they took EIGHT vials of blood)and have my 3rd day fertility test!

One step closer!

of doing this. More accurately, I’ve been matched to a recipient and I’m just waiting for the blood tests to come back for confirmation of my health. It’s been a long process to get this far, but I’m really happy.

This is something I’ve been thinking about for four years now, and I’m finally about to do it! I have BC pills the clinic gave me (unbelievably great clinic, by the way, for anyone in the San Diego area; I cannot recommend this place highly enough). I’m just waiting for my period to start so that the recipient and I can sync up our cycles.

Anyone who wants to do this/has done this, please contact me! I want to talk with people who’ve done this before. I’m excited, but feel a little alone.

2 weeks til it all begins, then retrieval at the end of January….