Sandy

I braved the beginning of Hurricane Sandy by going for blood work. My beta went up but my progesterone went down. I was very worried about that. I bought a lot of gas for the generator and supplies. When all said and done I have no money left in my bank account. The storm was kind to me and my family. We didn't loose power and the tree in the back of the house is strong as ever. The city I work in didn't fair to well. Atlantic City was devastated!!! Flooded and sand in the street and homes. The casinos were evacuated by 4pm Sun. I was still on vacation so I didn't get any work that week. It is now Halloween and the casino is still closed. The casinos are closed until further notice. I have no money coming in no money to pay bills no money for food and no money to go to the Dr. I will have to put some of it on my credit card and apply for unemployment and hope I get some money in soon. I have never been late on my mortgage before. These things are all small compared to the may people that have no homes left. I am just feeling sorry for myself I am happy I am pregnant and that my family are safe. My heart goes out to all the people devastated in the wake of Hurricane Sandy!!!

Prague Fertility Centre

I am here to tell you I went to Prague. It is the most amazing place in the world. I enjoyed exploring the city. I went there to do egg donor IVF. The day of my transfer wasn't the best day of my life that I wanted it to be. I got woken up at 3am with my sick sister puking her guts up. The room smelled disgusting. She insisted on going with me to the clinic sick and all. Everyone there was like wrinkled nosed when she started coughing. I insisted she wait outside no going in with me. I didn't want to get all the other patients sick as well. They were nice and gave her a script to get some meds at pharmacy. Everything went great with the transfer I have 2 good quality 3 day embryos in me. I was supposed to go to Krakow Poland 3 days after the transfer. We didn't go instead we re booked a flight home so she can go to the dr. On day 2 after transfer I went to breakfast and was very nauseous. I took it as a good sign. I flew home on day 4 and slept all day 5. I was crampy on day 6 so I took a wandaflo pee stick. It was a squinter and wasn't sure if it was a real pos because it took so long to show up. I took another one before bed and it did the same thing. On day 7 I took a digital test and it came up Pregnant!!!!

I panicked and called my local RE to get a hormone check. I did that and my beta was 53. YAY I am pregnant but my progesterone is very low it was 3. I am still panicked about this because I need the levels to be high enough to keep this going. I went back in 2 days beta was 123 and pro was 5.6 still low but up from 3. I went back in on Sat my beta was 275 and pro 4.5 it went down instead of up. I asked the local RE what to do and he was like tell your Prague Dr all I will do is check your blood. I am devastated he is not going to help me. I emailed the Dr in Prague and she is out of the office due to illness!!! My sister got everyone sick!!!!! I go back in on Wed to see if my beta goes up. I hope the clinic in Prague gets back to me with an answer as to what to do about my pro levels. Here is my favorite picture from my trip