The day after

Well, it's done. Yesterday we arrived at Pensacola @ 1:00. Jeremy had to leave a sample with the doctors and they told us to come back in an hour. Target is right across the street from the doctors office so we went there and just walked around. -I am very proud of myself, I didn't buy a thing- We left Target and just drove around Pensacola a little bit. We looked at the houses that are built on the water and they are gorgeous!!! I think it was on Pensacola bay. These are definitely houses that would be described as mansions. We got back to Dr. Ripps about 15 minutes earlier than we were supposed to. I had to go to the bathroom really bad so I ran in and did that. As soon as I got out Jill stuck her head out and said "is your bladder full, cause it needs to be?" Uh-Oh! I told her that I just used the bathroom and she promptly directed me to the water fountain and said to drink as much as possible. I drank three of those smaller styrofoam cups full of water very quickly. Then my stomach started to feel icky. (I think it was a combination of the very cold water and my nerves.) After about 15 minutes Jill stuck her head out and called me into another room. This is when I got nervous. She said the sample that Jeremy gave had a very low count (about 9 million) which wasn't very surprising since the other tests he had done said the same thing. -They later explained to us that once they washed the sperm there was only about 4 million left. (the washing gets rid of dead sperm or the ones that are not healthy.) When they extracted the sperm to put in they could only get about 2 million to put in.- Anyways Jill told me that they were having trouble extracting the sperm and they wanted to get as many as possible, so it'd be like another 20 minutes... Oh yeah, and keep drinking that water. Now my stomach is already swishing around from 4 cups of water and I'm getting more and more anxious so I just started walking around in the waiting room and turned on the t.v. (which was off when we got there) . The office always has soap operas on which I could care less to see but at least it was background noise. I almost asked them if I could turn the channel to tlc, then I thought about the delicate times in my life when I couldn't watch things about people having babies and decided that probably was why they don't put a channel like that on in the waiting room. I found an article in a magazine about the mormons in texas that lost all their children to the state and read that while I was still drinking water. All in all I think I drank 8 or 9 cups of water. Jill came out and called us back to the room. This lady who I've seen around but not really dealt with all that much was in there. She was going to do the procedure. This is where they explained about the sperm issues. They had to use a speculum to keep things open while they inserted a catheter into my uterus to place the sperm in. I guess my cervix is kinda tilted so it was hard to get the catheter in. (my bladder was extremely full though!!!) So the whole time Jill is holding an ultrasound thingy on my stomach pushing down for this other lady to see where the cervix and the uterus is. And the whole time I need to pee!!! badly. This other lady could not get the cervix to cooperate and I was just about getting to the point where I wanted to kick her... It was not a comfortable situation. Finally they admitted defeat (thankfully) and called the doctor in. Doctor Ripps got the speculum in, moved the cervix and inserted the catheter everything in about 5 minutes. I hate to break it to him but he's gonna do it the first time next cycle (if we have a next cycle of course). Once it was all done I had to lay on my back for 15 minutes. I made it but just barely and then ran to the bathroom. I have never had to go so badly. So that's our first attempt at artificial insemination (IUI). Thank-you to all of my friends and family who have prayed and supported and encouraged me. It makes all the difference in the world to have God in my life and such caring people around me. Now we just wait till June 25th to find out if it worked or not. I will probably write between now and then so just check back now and again and see. Love you all. <3 Shauna <3