Trigger Testing - Ovulation Induction with Ovidrel

Pregnant... Or Period?

Short Answer: Period.

Long Answer: Oh my gosh, it was one of the WORST DAYS OF MY LIFE.

I was okay, at first. I was stressed. I had an exam that day, at 9am. My partner got up for work first thing early that morning, and I got up with him to be ready. And that was fine.

Then things started to go wrong.

I lost my phone, and honestly I was ready to just leave it behind I was so stressed. The issue is, my photo ID was in my phone case. The ID that I NEEDED to be allowed to sit the exam I was racing to get to. So I tore apart the entire house trying to find it. Which I did.

Then I lost the keys, because I'd torn apart the house trying to find my phone. Found them. That was fine.

Got the toddler and the dog in the car through the rain. That was fine. Went to start the car.

The car wouldn't start.

Our almost new, fancy, never had a problem except needing a new battery for the key car WOULD NOT START.

This is going to sound so stupid to many, but I'm pretty sure the steering was locked. I can change out the rocket cover on a Toyota, replace spark plugs, do basic servicing and have gotten as far as replacing the CV Joints on a Starlet, but for the life of me I could not figure out how to unlock my steering wheel. Finally, I did. I was late-ish. That was fine.

I managed to get Hayden (my son) and Luka (the dog) to the baby/petsitters (the Nanna). I got dropped off at my exam. I sat my exam. It was tough, it was terrible. I hoped I'd passed but felt fairly confident I had (I don't know why, I later discovered I got a measly 14%, but that just reflects the entire day). I felt sick and something was wrong, but I didn't think anything of it.

I turned down drinks at the tavern after because I thought I might be pregnant. How wrong I was. If only I went to the toilet right then and there, I would have known. But I didn't. I got picked up, went back to Robyn's (the Nanna), grabbed the kid and dog, and as I was standing there saying goodbye, I realised for sure I wasn't pregnant.

I felt the dreaded SPLUOODGE. The knowing moment when a large chunk of your endometrium evacuated your uterus in one big go. But what was I to do? I had no supplies, I had my white undies on, and I had to go.

I drove home early, the original plan being to keep the kid awake and get home a bit before his nap time so he could nap and I could get stuff done (even if stuff meant napping with him). That failed, he slept the car ride and then woke at the end full of energy and didn't nap again that day. It also meant I had to get out of the car carrying a toddler and holding a dog through the rain literally dripping blood as it leaked through my jeans.

Yep. My period showed up.

I finally did get Hayden down to nap, I just remembered, because I was so excited to NOT study and to play a game, I went to play Minecraft on my Nintendo Switch, but everything went wrong there too. The Nintendo wouldn't turn on, then it wouldn't connect to the TV, then the remotes wouldn't connect to it, then it needed to update the software to access the internet, which made Minecraft realise it needed to update to work, too, which it finally seemed to and then it wouldn't connect to the server, and then I found out after all this time my Realms+ had ended so my Realm didn't exist, and I couldn't get my world back on Realms.

I finally got a new Realm, but then before I'd done ANYTHING (I literally had to dig into the side of a hill and block myself in with my bare hands, I was that new into the freshly loaded game) Hayden woke up.

I just tried to get through the rest of the day with minimal going wrong. Which basically meant jumping on the trampoline until my partner got home and saying stuff it to absolutely everything else.

The next day I had my blood test, which I still did as 'closing' bloods, and also opening bloods for the next cycle should I choose to go for OI again (which I did, and am doing now). Even that didn't go great. She couldn't find a vein that would work, and I almost got sent to the hospital to find one. I had Hayden the whole time squirming on my lap, and getting a blood test with a toddler in your lap sort of sucks. But eventually, after moving the needle around inside my arm for ages, ripping all my fascia in the attempt to find the vein, she said she was happy to go against the recommendations and try a third time on the other arm (she's only meant to try twice).

She found a vein, and you know what, I'm so over this cycle and it's ending, that's it. I'm ending this book. One crappy ending finished with another.

Hopefully everyone else's Ovulation Induction goes a whole lot more successfully.