So remember last month how my lining was kind of thick at my baseline ultrasound? Oh and remember that time in 2007 when the lab called me to tell me that I tested positive for Hep C?
Right. Second verse, just a bit too close to the first.
I had my baseline scan on Tuesday and while it was not as thick as my baseline from last month it wasn’t ideal. But the clinic was very “no biggie” about it and just asked me to come back early this morning for a repeat scan. My cycle this month has been just fine and normal (unlike last month where it was obviously wonky to me) so I promise I was not as OMFG when they asked me to come back today as you might imagine.
The tech today reviewed my lining notes from Tuesday and before she began (boing!) she said, “so we are just wanting things to be going down and not staying the same or going up.” I looked up at the popcorn ceiling and exhaled. It will either be fine or it will not be fine. Nothing I can do about t. At all.
Fortunately the lining has gone down and the tech said all things look like a go…but obviously I wouldn’t know for SURE until I got a call later this afternoon. I left the clinic in a good mood, a positive mood, and walked across the parking lot to the fertility medicine pharmacy to pick up my progesterone rockets and PIO.
I got to the coffee shop an hour later and started catching up on work. (have I mentioned that the brand spanking new version of the startup web app that I work for is launching THIS WEEKEND??!!) I was elbow deep in e-mails when my phone rang. The Clinic.
I was expecting it to be one of the IVF nurses giving me good news. I was not expecting a call from their labs telling me that there might be a delay to my cycle because I tested positive for Hep C. OH MY FUCKING…seriously?
I explained to the lab tech that, yes I am sure that I DID test positive. Thanks to the clinic I learned in 2007 that I will always test positive because I have the antibody for Hep C. This is a hereditary thing and more common than you might think. The test most labs administer is only a + or – test. On that test I will always show +. But on the test that tells you, essentially, how much Hep C you have I have 0.00%.
I went through WAY WAY WAY too much hell in 2007 to let this curb me again.
Obviously I explained to the clinic today that there should be a LOT of information in my file about this. I said there should be a letter from a liver specialist that will explain everything. She was very kind on the phone and said she would go through my file and let me know if she found the letter – and that she would call me back either way.
Twenty minutes later I get a call back. She can’t find the letter but she spoke with my IVF doctor and she remembered everything about my case. Yup. It was that big of a deal.
She is going to see if the letter got mis-filed in the donor egg world and meanwhile I am going to tear apart my files at home to find my copy. (oh irony that I now work for an online organizer that would have had ALL of this stuff at the ready for me…)
So now I wait. I wait for the official call about my lining and I wait to see what the heck I need to do about this antibody stuff. I suppose it wouldn’t be a normal trying cycle for me if there weren’t hurdles to leap over.
All hand holding sincerely appreciated.
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Holding out both hands. And waving a magic “find the letter” wand
Hugs
You have been through worse. Much worse. When you’re in the middle of a cycle every obstacle seems like a big tall mountain because remember how some of the bad news was really, really bad news. But some of the bad news is just a little bump in the road that you get over. You will get through this.
Holding your hand.xoxoxoxo
Holding both of your hands. Ugh. There’s never a such thing as drama-free where ART is concerned. And just think – FETs are supposed to be “easy.”
<3. Hand holding. YOU CAN DO THIS AND GET THROUGH THIS.
holding your hand tightly. your case was too well documented for this to be a serious bump. I mean, even your doctor remembers it.
UG. Wish this was going smooth like silk. But it is what it is, and you’re being brave and awesome. Like usual.
Along with you and holding on tight. Would the liver specialist’s office possibly have a copy of the letter?
Oh my gosh, that is so frustrating! I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. The only thing worse than a physical reason to put a cycle on hold is a pointless bureaucratic one!
Oh seriously…if you say it, and the doctor confirms it from memory…is the piece of paper absolutely necessary? Throw a fit, and they will get over it – that’s what I’ve found anyway.
It’ll work out!
I can’t believe this! I have been reading your blog (lurking, I guess, technically) since your pregnancy with W, but I missed most of the stuff before it. I am also a single mother to a son via FET (but mine was a donor embryo) . But what’s really weird is that I, too, recently went through the same false postitive Hep C roller coaster that you apparently went through…I just haven’t heard of it happening to anyone else. My son is almost 2, and I’m starting to think about another FET for a second child in the next year or so. What a good reminder for me that I’ll need to get my “I don’t really have Hep C” documentation in order before I start. I’m sorry this is the first time I’ve introduced myself, and also sorry that you’re having to go through the same stupid Hep C drama, but I guess it was the one last link that made me ready to delurk and say hello. I’m super excited about your upcoming successful FET
and I hope it all goes smoothly from here on out…
Holding your hands, and also starting to suspect you use the same clinic I used. That picture of the pharmacy above and you saying you walked across the parking lot to it makes me wonder. Either way, hoping you get good news on the lining and the paperwork.
Holding your hands and abiding with you through the ART drama…and letting you know that I’m available to kick ass and take names if you need it.
Here’s a hand. Both, even. Thinking good thoughts for you.
Right here with you. You are handling this amazingly. xoxo
Good grief.
I hope it gets all cleared up quickly! My fingers are crossed.
holding out my hands to smack them and give you comfort.lots of hugs!!!!!
Lots of love and support
Been thinking about you throughout the day! Hope it is solved SOON!
You can definitely have a hand (or two) to hold. Hope this mess is resolved quickly!
Doesn’t your old blog post count as documentation?
Good luck!
Uggg. What a mess. I hope it clears up quickly and things are back on track.
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