The Dreaded Missed Phone Call

In the paradoxical stress-free and stress-filled holding pattern of waiting to know what comes next, I have spent much time wondering when I would get the phone call that would get the ball rolling. Every day I hoped it would be the day, but my waiting was in vain,  and the week passed uneventfully.  

Confession: we have a cell phone, but mostly for emergency situations, and are certainly not attached to it.  Only on days when I expect a call from the clinic do I compulsively carry it everywhere with me, ringer turned all the way up.

Friday afternoon as we headed out to go hiking, S decided we had better bring the cell phone and upon picking it up, he immediately dialed into the voice mail -- we had missed a call.  He then handed me the phone, because guess who it was from!  Ahhh!  Frustration of frustration: the RE's office closes at 2 p.m. Friday and it was now 4 p.m.  And the call had been on Thursday at 11 a.m.  Grrr!  Almost 36 hours ago I could have been thus enlightened.

My calendar is ready and it's time for the injections teaching!  Injections start March 29th, so call for an appointment before then.  Oh, and a difficult choice -- would I like to choose progesterone vaginal suppositories or IM injections?  Pick your punishment...

I calculated in my mind what this must mean if I am going to be starting injections in less than a week.  Is it an agonist or antagonist protocol?  If ER is scheduled generally for mid-April, it must be Lupron.  This puts ER somewhere around April 19-20, but that is a weekend, so probably sometime before or after that.  Wow!  I'm so excited -- it's actually coming, and it's starting soon!  (It is so strange that I am excited to start giving myself daily shots!)

So the injections class is tomorrow.  The pharmacy called and the Lupron should arrive tomorrow as well.  It really is going to happen.  Brilliant.