Thursday, March 15th, 2012 was one of the worst days for playing the waiting game. It was the beta that would make or break this cycle, and the number had to be at least 12 or 1300 to keep me in the game. I was so glad that the blood draw was at 7:30 in the morning even though I could hardly move from bed from just feeling so exhausted.
My nurse usually calls by 1:00pm. It was now 2:30. Oh God, that had to be a bad sign, right? I played the whole "Ok, So Name All of the Things that Could be Wrong" game. Ta daaaa! Top 5 answers were on the board... you already know the question. Can I see "RE's office was held up by gunpoint so they couldn't get to the phone!" Survey says!? eeeehhhhh. How about "All phones at the lab have gone out of service due to a freak glitch in the Matrix!!" Survey says! eeeehhhhh...
Finally, after hours of convincing myself that my RE was going to call and give me the bad news of "We've actually been giving you someone else's numbers the whole time... you're not really pregnant." the nurse called. It was 4:00pm when she told me that my beta number was 1491.8. Squeeee! Ok, so the number was supposed to be 12 or 1300, so 1491.8 to me is a victory. I no longer have to go in for blood draws (yaaay!) and my first ultrasound was scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st.
I'm not sure how I feel about having an ultrasound scheduled so early. I mean, I'm very excited to see this little monkey growing inside of me, but at 5 weeks and 5 days, I'm not sure we'll see very much of anything. I'm very close to rescheduling my appointment. I want to be at least 7 or 8 weeks along because I know I'll be sick with anxiety if I don't see a heartbeat. I'm being ridiculous, huh?
Let's talk about symptoms. Morning sickness has hit. Although it doesn't happen in the morning for me at all... it's like there's an alarm clock inside of me that goes off at 10:00pm and I can't function. My head feels so dizzy that I swear it's going to roll off at any minute. I also run a really high fever and all I want to do is sleep.
Other than that, nothing really new. Same symptoms as before.. and oddly enough, I'm thankful for those symptoms.
So, I guess I can stop saying 17dp3dt, 18, 19 now 20dp3dt... I'm going to start saying "I'm 5 weeks, 2 days pregnant." What do you think? :)
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