Plans are underway. Consults accomplished. Appointment and testing requests in the works. If routine tests confirm that everything looks normal with my body and my hormones (we have no reason to believe otherwise), then we are on the schedule for a two-week "vacation" to Chicago, beginning August 15, to begin a round of IVF all over again. The protocol has changed a bit since the last time we went through this - no longer do they seek to accomplish stimulation, egg retrieval, PGD, and embryo transfer all in one action-packed three week span. Instead, they take you through retrieval, and then perform PGD and freeze the embryos instead of trying to rush toward transfer. Which means a shorter on-the-ground commitment in Chicago (better for Matt's and my work/vacation schedules), with a lower-stress FET cycle to happen at a future date. One step at a time. Already, our minds and hearts have slipped back into that willfully forgetful place where we don't think at