I know. I suck as a blogger.

Apparently I'm not so good at regular updates. But when there's nothing going on, there's nothing much for me to say.

Here's the rundown of what happened on Tuesday.

J went in around 9:30 and did his business. I think the quote of the day was, "I wasn't in the mood to masturbate in a hospital room." That cracked me up. After he left, they analyzed his sample, and then spun it to remove the sperm from the semen. Then they took the sperm and mixed them with some sort of medium which allows them to swim well, and re-analyzed the sample. I showed up at the doctor's office around 10:30 and sat there for about half an hour until they were ready for me. The nurse called me back and then had my sign some consent forms (because that had somehow been forgotten before...whoops!). Then she took me to an exam room and left while I stripped from the waist down. When she came back she went over what was going to happen, and then she got started. She put the speculum in, which wasn't exactly comfortable, and then she started looking for my cervix. Apparently it was really high up there, because she had to readjust the speculum a couple of times so she could get a clear view of what she was doing. Then she sucked the mixture of J's sperm and the medium they were mixed with into a syringe with a long, curved catheter. She explained that sometimes it would take a couple of tries to get the catheter placed well, just because different women's cervixes are shaped slightly differently. Apparently mine was shaped well, because she got it placed without any problems. She injected the sperm, and then propped up the end of the exam table so that my hips were slightly elevated. I laid there for 15 minutes, and then got dressed and left. I made appointments for next Monday to get my progesterone level checked to ensure that I'm producing enough to be able to sustain a pregnancy, and for the next Monday for a pregnancy test.

Now, I'm just waiting. It's been four days, so it's way too soon for me to have any symptoms or for it to even register if this was successful. I keep telling myself that it's too soon, but I also am having a hard time not taking tests already. I had a plan in place for if I'd had to do the trigger shot; I was going to give it a week, and then I was going to start testing to see if the level dropped enough that I had a negative test, which would indicate that the trigger shot had cleared my system, and then went up again enough that I had a positive test, which would indicate that I was pregnant. Now I don't know what to do. I think I'm probably going to start my pee-stick parties next Friday morning, since that will be the 10 day point, and will be the start of when it might show up if it's going to be positive. I just have to not go crazy before then, thinking the fact that my nipples are sore is a symptom and reading pregnancy symptoms into everything I feel between now and then.

I'll let you know how the progesterone test goes on Monday.