Distraction in the Two Week Wait

I received my tentative IVF schedule today. It goes as follows:

• 2/4: Last day of BCPs.
• 2/8: Treatment Plan review, Ultrasound and teaching
• 2/9: Start Meds
• 2/13: Follow Up
• 2/15: Follow Up
• 2/18: Follow Up
• 2/20: Tentative Egg Retrieval

I am fortunate that I have enough time at work to be able to take a full two+ weeks or so off (and that my boss has done the infertility thing herself, so she is the most understanding person ever). I am a PACU nurse, so I am on my feet a lot and worry about the impact of the physical aspect of my job. My RE says that there is no scientific data to support extended bedrest, such as increased pregnancy rates or lower miscarriage rates, so he says that I can do what I wish and what will work for me. Since I have never spent this much money on anything in my life (our home excepted), I am going to take some time off.

I have been creating a sort of "care package" and a plan to distract myself in the 2ww to prevent myself from going completely insane. I've got a couple of non-fertility related books to peruse, as well as a couple of magazines and plans for a massage, manicure, pedicure, etc.

I had lunch with my girlfriend D today and we are going to work on some art projects in order to keep me from surfing FF and LP all day and night. She saw a 3-D art installation in a gallery that she wanted to replicate in her home, so I am going to help her with that. I actually worked on knocking off a $6K piece of art during my DH's recovery and I found it to be very therapeutic.

When D and I went to lunch, we selected the branch of the restaurant that is in the alternative lifestyle friendly part of town so as to avoid lots of kids and the mommies-who-lunch crowd. No sooner than D arrives does a family with a hyperactive 4 year old and another baby under a year old plop down at the table next to us. Ugh. Serenity now!