Bad news..Good news

Let's start with the bad news, which I already mentioned in the last post. The follistim cycle was a bust and I'm officially now on cycle 17. yikes. October 2008 (when we officially started ttc) just seems farther and farther away. Well, probably because it is getting farther & farther away!

So, the plan for cycle 17 is really nothing. Sort of a hail Mary before we do IUI. I have a work conference the end of this month so we would be cutting it a little too close for comfort, and I don't want to use hundreds of dollars worth of follistim, only to have it be of no use. Now I'm just crossing my fingers that I won't ovulate while I'm in Phoenix, giving us a really slim chance of getting pregnant this month (since Dan won't be there with me!).

If cycle 17 is another bust we'll start back with the follistim injections, but this time we'll do IUI. My doc also mentioned he'll change my dosage a bit, to try to result in two mature follies at the time of the IUI, and not just one. Yay! I really got my hopes up this last cycle, so it was the hardest BFN to date. I'm very excited to give IUI a shot, but I'm going to try my hardest to not get my hopes up so high. We'll see how that goes.

So, I guess that was a bit of a bad news/good news mix.

Now for the REALLY good news.. I got a promotion to AVP (Assistant Vice President), an incredible 25% raise, and a huge bonus!!! I've been a bit under paid for some time, managing people who were making more money than I am, so this was a BIG deal. I got the news on CD1.. which I was so grateful for. It allowed me to focus on something positive, instead of the negative. I feel like a huge weight of stress was just lifted off of me.

I'm feeling good and I'm excited to see what the rest of 2010 will bring me!