CD 2: Yeah, you read that right...

(FYI - This is going to be long. Sorry in advance.)

IUI #1 didn't work. And not only did it just not work... my luteal phase was 9 days. I got my period 10 DPIUI. Which, lucky me, also happened to be the first day of school. So, on top of dealing with a new class of students, I also had to try to hold it together all day long. To say it was incredibly difficult is a huge understatement. I basically cried from the time I got in my car after school until I went to bed that night. I would have been upset no matter what if it didn't work, but the fact that my period came so early just made things so much worse because it was such a surprise.

Honestly, I don't even know what the heck happened. I talked to my nurse this morning and her explanation was basically that things are "different" with my body because of all the injects and the HCG trigger shot... something about how the "process" of ovulation starts when I give myself the trigger shot, so my luteal phase was really a couple days longer. Okay, that explantation just doesn't fly with me, because if I do ovulate right away with the shot, then the IUI 36 hours later is done too late!!! Luckily, I have an appointment on Thursday with my RE (in addition to my baseline appointment), so he better have a much, much better explanation for me.

Needless to say, it's been a tough couple of days. So, today I went to go ahead and get my first few days of meds (long story, but basically with my appointment being at 3:15 on Thursday, and the pharmacy I use closing at 4:30, I needed to go ahead and get it). I will need 15 vials of Bravelle to start with (assuming I can actually go through with this cycle... AKA no cysts). I had my nurse fax in a prescription for 10 to start with because there is a coupon where you can get to $500 off if you get 10 vials (you get less off if you get less vials). The coupon is only good once per cycle. Well, when I got there I found out that apparently it's actually only good every 30 days, and since my period came so freaking early, I can't use it until like Monday or something, which will be too late. Awesome. I left empty handed, because I'm not about to pay an extra $500 when I don't know for sure that I will be able to cycle.

So, I called my mom when I left, and I was just explaining everything to her. And I told her that if we wait until next cycle it would basically cost us $500 less, so we may just take this cycle off... and she said she and my dad had talked about it, and if it was just finances stopping us, they would help us out and they would send us $500. I immediately started sobbing hysterically. I think it was just such a relief to finally feel not so alone in all of this... like someone else was helping us to carry this tremendous burden.

If you can spare some extra prayers, we could really use them.