So after 2 crazy days (around 6 hours each day) with my parents and my sister, my donor has finally been selected. We started yesterday setting up wireless keyboard and mouse to the big tv in the living room. Much easier to read the profiles and see the childhood pictures! It was fun and crazy and exhilarating and exhausting.
We've narrowed it down to two, but it seems one of them may not have available vials for me have when I need them, which is next weekend!
It's happening so fast(which i'm very happy about) I officially started this process as we entered into
2012, but I've been talking about it being a possibility of taking this path for the last 5 years.
2/21/12
So today was the big day. 1st attempt at ICI. I ended up with our 1st choice donor for many reasons, the first being we all had an immediate reaction to seeing his pictures and reading his info. The second being his jewish ancestry. I had a wonderful conversation with a geneticist (thank you Jennifer) who helped me understand why choosing #1 over # 2 was very important. Turns out since I'm jewish it is very important to choose a donor who has been tested for the genetic disorders associated with jewish ancestry. Donors who are not jewish or don't know they may have jewish blood are not automatically tested. So that was that...ICI instead of IUI for this first go round, since that was all that was available this month from my donor.
Surprisingly, I slept great last night. Woke up refreshed, had breakfast and awaited the arrival of my sister to drive me to pick up the tank and head to the doctor's office. As I walked around the corner to the back of my building where my sister was waiting for me and all of sudden the nerves hit me. She said she could see it on my face as it hit me!
Easy pick up and then the waiting at the doctors office. Check out Auntie Geri's entry to see how that all went.
And now we wait!!!! and wait!!!!
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