Tentatively graduating again. Wish me luck on staying gone from here for a while this time. 
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So much luck! 
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I need to talk to the financial people to make a decision about egg vs embryo donation but no one is available this week and my assigned person is on vacation. And next week I will be on vacation and it sounds like they want to do it as, like, an appointment/consultation. Grr. I was hoping that if everything went quickly maybe we could squeeze in a late June/early July transfer, but that seems less and less likely. We won’t be assigned a clinical team until we decide, so we can’t do any of the preliminaries.
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Figured out why… The RE department only exists in half the Kaiser hospitals in the area. They are nicely located so I think it’s like 45 min drive max from any part of greater LA. But I really hope they can work with local OBGYN and do video appointments!
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They were worried about growth restrictions during my pregnancy, and I had to have a whole bunch of appointments at Kaiser Sunset late in my pregnancy. Driving to east Hollywood suckkkked, and I spent so much money on parking.
Hope that you’re able to have a lot of the appointments via telehealth!
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I’m going from South Bay to Downey (Orchard) 
Except hopefully not actually going much?
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East Hollywood is, like, theeee most annoying place to get to unless you’re already in Hollywood or live along the 101 (and even then, the 101 blows).
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So… After one attempt to call, they sent me a letter to call a number but the number goes straight to a voicemail that says leave your deets and we’ll call you. So… 
What is the point?
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11 day luteal phase, wompwomp. Cycle 5 
(well, cycle 6 since starting to try again but we purposely skipped one cycle for vaccine timing).
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Oh no!
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Blech. I’m sorry the signs are not great.
I made an appointment for late July with a second clinic just in case things have gone sideways with SGF by then. It’s good to have options and if it takes two months to get an appointment… and that’s after I waited I think a couple weeks for them to even call me…
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NPY (not pregnant yet) problems…
- running low on tests all of a sudden because you’re testing 3x a day trying to catch the end of your LH surge to know how long it is.
- sitting down to pee and going "wait do I need to test this tho?
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Wearable review
OvuSense Day (night) 1 review: no weirder than using a cup but was harder to remove. NFC syncing was frustrating but eventually worked…i don’t use NFC normally so this may improve w practice. App is nice (not pink!) Temp was only 0.2F above mouth reading. You can’t boil it like a cup (wash w soap only).
I temped anyway for continuity but will def be nice to not think about it in AM until I get up. I’m hoping it will remove some variability or a least doubt from readings but I need a larger dataset, so I’ll follow up…
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It me.
Or peeing and forgetting to test and being like “can I squeeze out anymore…?”
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I’m just like… F*ck. And go chug some water (prob need it anyway…) 
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This is the time of the month when I’m like, I SEEM really fertile! I have all the signs, from EWCM to inappropriate sex dreams and soon I will get a pinching cramp on the active ovary and a temperature shift. Why do my eggs suck so bad that not only can I not get pregnant,* I even flunked IVF? Stupid estrogen trolling.
*I mean, we don’t have a lot of sperm to work with, but over two and a half years, it seems like I might have gotten lucky?
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So, ovulation almost certainly occurred, for the first time in 6 months…yay! Not sure if something in doing was working or if it w just Time…
And now… We wait. I’m not entirely sure if I’m waiting for a period or a positive. Like on the one hand we tried intentionally because I don’t want to let my valuable ovulations slip away. On the other hand… The idea of a positive is also terrifying!?
Scared of a normal pregnancy, but also
There is a higher rate of complications for mom and baby with PCOS and elevated testosterone specifically. Not like super high, still single digits. I shouldn’t have looked 
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