The Fight Continues

As I explained on my last post, during our IVF cycle, our day 3 transfer didn't happen. I have a 90 degree angle in my cervix and my doctor, who has fought with my cervix enought to understand it, was on maternity leave. The doctor who was doing the transfer could not get the cathedar through the angle in my cervix. What was supposed to be a 20 minute procedure, much simpler than the retrieval, turned into a 2 hour hellish nightmare, much - much worse than the retrieval

It culminated in the 70 year old man putting a clamp on my cervix, pulling it down until it was straight, and inserting a metal rod through the now straightened cervix into the uterus. His plan was that once it was straight, he could slip the cathedar over the rod. This was all without drugs, cause after all, the transfer is supposed to be the easy part. Unfortunately, clamping my cervix and pulling it straight not only hurt like a bitch but was also traumatic to my organs, causing them to have labour like contractions. The lovely doctor then told us that we could not transfer the embryo's since the contractions would only push them out of the uterus. He also said that we had to wait until day 5 to try again and the embryo's may not survive until day 5.

Luckily, most of the embryo's lived in the lab until day 5, when my regular doctor came in from her maternity leave, checked to ensure my cervix and uterus weren't injured, and transferred 2 embryo's in less than 15 minutes.

This past Friday, my lining finally measured .8. The good news was that we could start the progesterone and my transfer is scheduled for Wednesday. The bad news is that my doctor doesn't work at the clinic on Wednesdays, and guess who's on duty that day. You guessed it, I freaked!

What ensued was a long, stressful and confrontational conversation with the IVF coordinator. I explained that I would not have the transfer done with that doctor and I would be prepared to wait until the next day. They explained that they could not possibly wait until the next day because their protocal said that the embryo's must be transferred 5 days after the lining reaches .8 or greater. The IVF coordinator, thinking she was being helpful, says "Imagine the liability if we held off a day and you started bleading or your lining shrunk and we had to cancel the whole month."

I calmly looked her in the eye and said "imagine the liability if your doctor puts me through another 2 hours of hell and still can't get my thawed embryo's into my uterus. Imagine the liability if because of that, my embryo's don't make it."

I don't think that I am very well liked at the clinic anymore. However, I have been told that it is very likely that my doctor will change her schedule and come to the clinic on her lunch break on Wednesday to do my transfer.

That is good. I will call on Monday to confirm. And, if she cannot do so, I think that I will cancel this month, explain that I would prefer to wait until a month when my doctor will be available just to be sure that we don't lose our embryo's. And by the way, if I have to cancel, I want all of my money back for the FET.

By the way, I am new to blogging, does anyone know how to add links to my site. When I type them in, they come up at the bottom and they are not actually linked.