Laughing with Sarah

...(yup, you know where this is going)...try, try again! Last night was my first Lupron injection, marking the start of our frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle. A longer but easier ordeal. I need to settle into the old pattern of nightly injections. The good: only one injection a night. The bad: this goes on for more weeks than injections for a fresh cycle. Anyway, nothing at all interesting to report about the start of the cycle other than the fact that we started it. Here's hoping for a positive outcome!

My RE has two offices. One here in town, which is tiny office, equipped only to do things like consults, regular office visits, blood draws, ultrasounds, and things like that. He has a second office, downtown Chicago, where he does all of his surgeries and advanced procedures. Every woman going through IVF needs to go to that Chicago office twice: once for egg retrieval, once for embryo transfer. There is an empty plot of land in town, near his existing office, and he is building a new office, complete with surgical suites, so that his patients can do all of their fertility-related treatments in one place. Last month, the city council was scheduled to vote on the project, merely to approve the land use, on unanimous recommendation by the Planning and Zoning Commission. A small group of conservative Catholics in town showed up at that meeting, opposed to the fertility center on moral grounds, and because of their arguments, the city council postponed the vote until their next mee...