About to Get Real

This morning I confirmed today's date for a daily couples' reading we actually only do semi-routinely. She affirmed the date and followed up with the reminder that tomorrow is her "Suppression Check." What that means is the lab checks Kristina's E2 and FSH levels to be certain that her body is responding as expected to the hormone treatment. Her body has to be in sync with the timing of normal ovulation so that when the embryos are implanted in her uterus all is as if it happened naturally - at least from her endocrine system's perspective.
 

What else this means is in a few days she will begin even more hormone stimulation. This time it will be a follicle-stimulating hormone for a few days then adding a dilution of luteinizing hormone to the mix, all while continuing the Lupron. All this leads up to the "Trigger" shot which is currently scheduled only 10 days from now.
 

Quick timeline: The "Suppression Check" is Step 34. The "Trigger" is on Day 42 or 43, depending on a few variables. The Oocytes Retrieval and MESA are performed at Step 44. Lastly, Embryo Transfer is the last thing - Step 49.
 

All of that means we are in the busy, busy phase now - and the "wooing" part of the process is only two weeks from complete. Obviously it doesn't stop there, but following two weeks will be pretty quiet, as the first few days Kristina will be confined to the bed, and after that it will just be waiting.
 

So, as the title states, it's about to get real. I had that feeling a little bit ago when she started the injections, but it became more real to Kristina in the last few days. While I admit, I have been far more emotional of late than I can explain, I must give kudos to how well my wife handles (perhaps deflects) the stress. She has simple made up her mind not to be upset about anything because the future life of our child depends on that. She really is amazing.