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D took the prescribed medication as instructed, but her ovary check on cycle day 10 did not show enough "action" for the nurses to get excited about. Are her ovaries supposed to be discoing, I wondered. "Action," we've since learned, refers to follicle growth. D had some follicles but they were all really small. We were asked to return for another check in a few days to see if the follicles had grown.
I chanted "GROW, GROW, GROW!" to D's ovaries over the next couple days, thinking that maybe those little follicles were just confused or unmotivated and needed a pep rally. Well, no such luck. The second check revealed six follicles on one ovary, but none of the six were more than 9 mm. Apparently 18 mm. is the optimal size for insemination.
The good news is that Dr. Jaffe was utterly unfazed by this information and told D that there is absolutely nothing to worry about. D craftily asked the same question several times just to make sure:
"So there's nothing to be concerned about?"
"No, there's nothing to worry about."
"So, we shouldn't be worrying about anything then?"
"No, we'll just monitor things this month."
"So, we're just monitoring this month?"
I wonder if all patients do this weird parroting thing.
Since I didn't attend the second appointment, I came home from work armed with a gazillion questions even though D had given me a play by play on the phone while she was at the doctor's.
"So, she said that we shouldn't worry? Did you ask her specifically if there was anything wrong?"
Can you believe that this is what we've been reduced to? We used to have intelligent conversations in which we rarely repeated ourselves and now look at us!
Anyway, it seems that D's body just didn't have the response to the medication that they would have liked, but there are other medications to try. So, no insemination this week, but we'll start the whole cycle again soon. Grow, follicles! Grow!
