I was driving last weekend with a friend to see the new Harry Potter movie and we were talking about kids and our journeys to having them...as we talked I realized that I was coming up on 2 years from when I started my journey to have Anna and Lily.
I did my first shots on July 31st 2007 and came home with the BIG BAG of drugs a couple days before that. That bag was a scary propositon for me. Up until the day that the BAG arrived in my life I was truly hoping to go low-tech for my babies. Unfortunately for us... Low-Tech wasn't working so we had to step our efforts up a notch and go High-Tech and eventually do an IVF cycle. This involved Birth Control pills (what an oxymoron when you're trying to GET pregnant) and the HUGE Bag of Drugs. I picked it up during my lunch hour and I swear I practically cried all the way back to the office. I was tempted to go through the bag at the office but somehow I was able to wait till I got home from work to go through the bag. The contents included: Lupron, Gonal-f, Repronex (the Gonal-f and the Repronex had to be taken together), HCG, Cefoxitin, Doxycycline, Valium,PIO (Progesterone in Oil) and Vivelle Patches.
The reason I remember the date was coming up was because I had heard that the Beach Boys were coming to Boston for a FREE concert (on 7/25/09) and it triggered the memory of being at the Free Concert that they's had 2 years ago (8/18/07)and how I had to scramble to get home to take my last Gonal-f and Repronex shot since I was scheduled to have blood drawn and an Ultrasound the next day (which was my 33rd birthday). I also remember the date because in true Cheryl fashion, I scrapbooked every little thing about our one and only IVF cycle that led to our Twin Pregnancy. I doubt that I'll ever be Pregnant again so I made sure to document everything that I could.
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