Here we go again
We're just heading into another IVF cycle. This involves giving
my wife a series of medications to shut off her (ab-)normal
hormones and substitute a carefully mediated set of artificial
ones which are designed to produce a textbook menstrual cycle.
Unfortunately, as you probably know, messing with a woman's
hormones has nasty side-effects; sleep disruption and mood
swings are now the norm at our house, for example. (As if the
stress of infertility itself weren't enough to handle.) So when
wife calls the IVF coordinator at 9 AM Monday, and gets a voice
mail reply at 4:57 that evening; calls 8:30 the next morning and
gets voice mail at 4:45 (which she returns by 4:55 but no answer);
and calls 3 times between 8:00 and 8:40 the next morning, to no
avail -- well, to me, at least, the emotional distress this would
cause a patient is obvious.
I'm sure this is only going to get more interesting as we start
adding additional hormones to the mix. Can't wait for those
twice-a-day progesterone shots....
Posted at 11:45AM Jul 14, 2004 by AceOfSpuds in Infertility |