Gearing Up For Round 2

The plane tickets have been purchased, the accomodations have been booked and I will start birth control bills December 30th! I am excited that it is getting closer to going again but am nervous that I still have a fallopian tube that can cause the demise of this second round of IVF. I keep having arguments, with myself, that maybe it would've been better to just remove both fallopian tubes while we were at it that way those embryo's would have to stay in the uterus!! K, so that might just be a tad bit drastic but hey I tend to be that way. That is really my only concern going into round two since round one went soo smoothly and virtually pain free. Except for the accomodations since I try to look for cheaper but nice places to rent the first time around was cheap and nice but located in the Ghetto. This new place is in Casco Viejo which is the old town Pananma City that is being refurbished. It is safe inside of Casco Viejo but very unsafe outside of it which is fairly close to where we will be staying. Hopefully it all turns out well and we will be happy with our choice. We are also going to spend a week in the upper end of Panama on an island on the Carribean side that is supposed to be spectacular! We just need to decide which island we want to be on.

Update

So I thought I would update this blog before I continue on with posts. We went in for the 7 week ultrasound to see a heartbeat and had a unexpected surprise. It turned out that one embryo took and had a heartbeat but was in the fallopian tube. So after doing another HCG test and finding that my BETA was over 8,500 the doctor said we needed to go in surgically and remove the embryo and possibly the tube as well that day. We went in at 4:30 that afternoon and had the embryo and left tube laproscopically removed. The procedure went well and I was able to go home that evening. Recovery has been fairly smooth sailing, the first week I was quite a bit sore but things have been great ever since. We are planning on doing a second round of IVF in Panama in February so hopefully this time around those darn embryo's will stay where they belong, in the uterus!! This time they only have one tube that they can wander down so my odds are better. I will start blogging again closer to when we leave.

Here are the surgery pictures for your viewing pleasure