Another Step Toward Oz

Sooooo....follow the yellow brick road. What is the next step? I called Dana (our case nurse, by the way, I love that we have assigned nurses. It helps us feel more comfortable.) and she said that the next step would be to wait. (WAIT!?!?!? WAIT???? But I don't wanna.....)

I figured this was going to be her response. She said I needed to wait until I was late again (probably about the 21st of July) and call to set up a "no menses" appointment. So I did. Simple as that. Yesterday I went into Shady Grove at stinkin 7am in the morning to have blood drawn as well as a "baseline" ultrasound done. One of the things the blood tests were checking for was my progesterone level. If my progesterone level was high it would mean that I had ovulated and my period was coming right around that corner. (HA! fat chance). If my progesterone level was low it would mean just the opposite and I was supposed to take Provera to induce my period. Lovely. I had been on this medication several times before and it makes me sick but that is a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things. (Just a side note, you may have heard of Depo-Provera shots for birth control....just the opposite of what I would be taking. It stops your periods.) I was supposed to wait to fill the prescription until a nurse contacted me with the results. (As if we don't all know what the results are going to be.)

The ultrasound....the ultrasound was done to form a baseline for the doctor to follow in the future. The tech explained to me that they would measure my uterus and check out my ovaries and so on and so forth. I could see the screen as I laid there all comfy (NOT!) but of course I had no idea what I was looking at. When she looked at my left ovary she told me it looks like I have two cysts on it. She explained that they are fluid filled pockets on the ovaries and they come and go. Nothing to worry about. (What if she's wrong.....wait...that's a bridge I don't need to cross yet.) Ok....she was done...that was it. Off to work I go.

I got the call I was waiting for mid afternoon. The nurse told me that, and this is exactly what she said, "It looks like a period is nowhere in the near future for you." To which I replied, verbatim, "Shocker!" (dripping with sarcasm of course.) She laughed and said to fill my prescription. So that is where we are in the process. I need to take the Provera for 10 days and then my period should start. I need to call them on day one to set up an appointment for day 3 so they can do more testing. Sooooo here's to modern medicine.....could someone please pass the Provera bottle?