Cycle Day 1

Day 1 of my cycle FINALLY arrives and I can't say I have ever been so excited for its arrival. But something that in the past has been an inconvenience or disappointment is now a signal for a new beginning.

Of course, nothing goes easy for me so after leaving a message for the clinic and walking on cloud nine for half the day my bubble was burst. Unfortunately, the embryologist has a few times a year that they are closed for audits and such and my cycle timing combined with the treatment lands my retrieval to happen exactly during that time. I've begged the nurse to do something, well anything, to make this happen for me this year. While it's definitely not the worst news I've heard in my lifetime, I am incredibly inpatient. Every cell in my body screams to have a baby to care for and each minute that passes without that is torture. I can only ask why such a simple thing for most seems to keep being such a hard process for me. All I can do is wait and pray.