phase 2, part 3

if you want to know the secret to making sure that sex-on-demand happens as it needs to, i'll tell you: be sick for a week beforehand (coming off of your period) so your husband is severely deprived. we had no issues last night, other than him refusing to kiss me because i have been feeling so crappy and he didn't want to be exposed to more of my germs than necessary. also yesterday and today were my ovulation days, so we had double the incentive... hopefully i will be feeling well enough for the rest of the weekend to maximize these peak fertility days!

this morning i went in for the post-coital exam, which was the easiest part of this process yet. it was even less involved than a pap smear. all they needed to do was collect some mucus. speculum in, mucus sucked up, and done! for a pop culture reference on the subject, this is where things went wrong for charlotte on "sex and the city." her cervical mucus was attacking trey's sperm. hopefully this is not the case for me.

today's doctor was much more chatty and helpful than tuesday's, so i asked her something that i'd been wondering about about next week's biopsy. on the off-chance that i do get pregnant, would it be safe for them to be poking around in there and removing part of the uterine lining? she said that people ask that question a lot, but that yes, it is safe. she also told me that she had recently read a study that showed that in cases of early pregnancy when a biopsy is done it may actually cause the embryo to form an even stronger bond during implantation. go figure! she said that a lot of women end up getting pregnant during the fertility work-up, which i've heard and read before. who knows exactly why, but it's something to stay optimistic about, i suppose.

after that i went to a lab to have the additional bloodwork done. these were tests that have to be submitted as frozen samples for whatever reason, and the doctor's office doesn't have the technology to do that. i couldn't decipher anything on the form other than figuring out that one of the tests was for lupus. so i'm guessing these are just more of the same hormonal and genetic tests that they were collecting for last week. it was another 10 vials, not terrible.

so that's it until a week from today: the biopsy. that's the last stage of this process other than the results meeting with the doctor. hopefully we won't have to wait too long to schedule that. this has felt like a long process already.