Not on my bingo card!!!
My husband and I finally felt like we were turning a corner. We began our IVF journey about a year ago, when I was 39.5 after a MMC for genetic reasons. We naively thought it would be a relatively straight forward process, but it’s been harder than we thought. After 3 egg retrievals and a hysteroscopy for scar tissue, we finally have 2 euploids and 2 mosaics. Not quite the 3 euploids recommended for a live birth, but enough to make us feel we can start the transfer process. And just days after finding out the good news, I get a suspicious bug bit and need to be treated for suspected Lyme disease! That was not on my bingo card!!! It just feels like the universe is working against us. We just want to start our family and it feels like we can’t even get out of the starting gate. So now we get to wait… but the clock keeps ticking. At this point, I’ll be lucky if we can start transferring in August, and even then, no guarantee it will stick. I‘m just so angry and frustrated and sad, I needed to get it off my chest to people that won’t just say “it’ll all work out, you just have to wait.” This whole process is hard enough without the added obstacles, why does this have to happen now?