Monday, February 9, 2009

Call to Nurse

I called the nurse responsible for overseeing the donor program this morning. Of course, I had to leave a message. I was nice and pleasant and just told her that I was checking in to see if any progress had been made on a match for me. I reminded her that it had been more than a month since I submitted my application along with my six donor choices. And I also asked if she could give me some sort of time estimate on when she thought I could expect to get matched and start this cycle - would it be another month, six months, a year? I just don't know what to expect and it makes it hard to make any plans. I feel like I'm living in limbo. Like how do I make vacation plans when I don't know if we'll be cycling next month or a year from now? And it affects other things as well - for example, I'm considering joining my first tennis team. Practice and matches start in a few weeks and go through April. Well, I don't want to join and commit to being part of the team if I'm going to be cycling in March, but then again, I don't want to not join if it's going to be six months or more. I feel like I've put my life on hold for too long. Like last year, I was going to train for another marathon with my running group but then didn't do it because it is such a big time commitment and I was sure that I would be getting pregnant from one of my IVF cycles - but of course I didn't. So, instead, I didn't run and ended up gaining 12 pounds over the past year. I just want to know when this is going to happen so I can plan, accordingly! I don't think that's too much to ask. I'm tired of living in limboland.

1 comment:

Peeveme said...

I hope she gets back to you soon with some good news. Or at least she gets back to you with a reasonable estimate.