Wednesday, June 18

Busy day today. I got up early and finished packing for the twelve days I’ll be out of town. Jeff and I left the house shortly after 7 am and headed to the Dr’s office. They got me in quickly for my blood draw. Then I picked up the prescription for Lovenox (blood thinning injections) as well as three lab orders. Then Jeff drove me straight to the airport. I flew to Florida where I’ll be until Saturday morning.

As soon as we landed I turned my phone on. Had the Dr called with the results? Nope. Not yet. I drove around aimlessly for a while waiting for their call. At one point I saw I had a new voice mail. HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THEIR CALL!! I called the office immediately and pulled over to talk to Amber, a nurse there.

We were hoping my hCG number would be between 120 and 140. Today’s count was 195!! Yippie!! That’s VERY good news. Tonight I need to start taking the Lovenox injections. Then on days 4, 8, and 12 I need to get some lab work done so they can monitor my platelet levels. If everything looks good on these lab results they’ll just test me once a month going forward.

The scary part – these labs aren’t checking the pregnancy. I won’t know anything else about how the pregnancy is coming along until my first ultrasound which we scheduled for July 7 at 3 pm. At that point I will be 6 weeks and 2 days pregnant and we should be able to see/hear that long anticipated heartbeat!

The sad part about this appointment – July 7 is Jeff’s first day at a brand new job. He’s not yet sure if he’ll be able to go with me. We’ll just have to play that by ear. Perhaps I’ll get one of my girlfriends on standby just in case he can’t go.

So I head to a Fort Lauderdale Walgreens to get my prescription for Lovenox filled. They didn’t have a month’s worth, but they gave me a few to tide me over. I need to go back tomorrow to pick up the rest. Ahhh – injections. I’m fine with needles, so I don’t think this will be an issue. I soon will learn different.

I get to my hotel and order some room service and ultimately start my bedtime routine. I take my other pills and then it’s time for the injection.