Unicorn Party July 24th, 2020

It's official! Unless an unforeseen moment is to take place in the next week, we will transfer one sweet ice embaby on July 24th! So that means that transfer day is an excuse to get your favorite unicorn on! It's time to celebrate and wish this beautiful unicorn so much luck! We are going to need it! Eeek! We are both so taken back that we get to participate in this extraordinary chance to try! What a chance of a lifetime!

In case you missed the last post, there is an important details section that goes into how we are respectfully hoping for your support. The important details are colored, for easy scrolling.

Even Target is showcasing their love and support with a unicorn!

Today was filled with excitement and butterflies, to say the least! Something I wasn't expecting. Up until this point, my days are filled with taking pills five times a day and it gets rather routine. I'm back to work full-time now, minus my heavier appointment schedule days this month. Even my time spent with my lovely roommate is pretty well timed, since I'm no longer part-time. So, things were not feeling any different the past twelve days. But something changed today. It all got real.

Being back at the fertility clinic for real treatments was surreal as it gets.

I'm not sure if my lining check could have gone much better. Honestly, I really thought I would need a little more time. Remember, I spend a lot of time with infertility folks? I trust my doctors with my life, but I'm also hyper aware of what to expect with IVF. Also, if you didn't know, my three retrievals were dang hard and that's probably an understatement. So, in many ways, I have been trying to err on the side of caution. I can't even begin to tell you what it was like to be back at the clinic and have things go so well. Not to mention fast! I was so certain that this sweet unicorn and I would need a few more days. So sure, that I convinced John to plan a vacation. We decided on a secluded destination in Virginia on July 24th. Did you catch that? We booked a little TransferMoon on the same day as my transfer! Insert my laugh cry face here! To be fair, I really didn't think my transfer would be until the following Monday and I was told the 23rd would be the option the week prior, if I was ready that early. We never discussed the 24th, not even with planning acupuncture. Oh and did I mention my acupuncturist is supposed to be on vacation next week, too? Well she is phenomenal and is going to come in on Friday morning for me. So the new plan is acupuncture in the morning, transfer in the afternoon, and camping out in John's backseat for a few hours until we arrive at our blissfully relaxing destination. Regardless of outcome, I'm really grateful I get to have this tranquil time.

Transfer & Transfermoon = John is COMING here!

I can't even begin to tell you how EXCITED we both are! After he had to figure out how to attend military training, get COVID tested (because he has been in groups at said military training), and figure out how to turn in a embryo thaw permission slip...he began to drive across country this afternoon! He stopped in Cheyenne for the night and will make it to Iowa by tomorrow. We anticipate him arriving Sunday evening. Please do your thang and send him good energy, prayers, etc for his safe arrival here with me.

I should have asked him to snap a photo. But since I didn't, here's a GIF in his honor, that describes all he was able to do today, figuratively speaking...

Then I remembered yesterday was my six month milestone, I've been looking forward to the most the past six months!

Maybe it's because I've been preoccupied with preparing for today. Or perhaps, being back to work full-time is taking some adjusting, especially with additional meetings this week. Or it could even be that I was sick last weekend and don't recover the way I used to. Regardless, I have let some really important dates slip by me. One of them is the date I've literally been waiting for every single day for six months, my surgery anniversary date! It's such a big deal on so many levels. I also think it meant more work for my INCREDIBLE coordinator, which is the only reason why I was clued into the time that had passed. The other date was my niece's birthday. That one I have some making up to do on. Neither date I actually forgot about. How could I! But the days literally passed by me. So I spent the rest of today treating it like I would have yesterday. For my niece, I will be doing a birthday re-do for her, very soon.

There was so much more from today, but we'll leave it with just a few more photos from the day.