After a harrowing two days the fertility medication arrived. Erin's frozen embryo transfer was on after all. Jenny and Erin made arrangements to travel to the clinic. We had suggested they fly in to a smaller airport closer to the clinic than the more well-known major airport. We had also given them our hotel recommendations near the clinic. We knew the area well from the many trips we made to the same clinic to conceive our own children.
Jenny and Erin also took us up on our invitation to meet them. They decided to fly here the weekend before the transfer so they would have a free day to visit us. We gave them detailed instructions so they could get here via car or commuter train, as they preferred.
It seemed like a good idea for Jenny and Erin to meet our children before going ahead with the embryo transfer. If they found the kids to be horrid little monsters it was best that they did so before becoming pregnant with their genetic sibling.
We would meet our embryo recipients in less than one week.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
EMBRYO INTERRUPTUS?
When we last checked in with our heroines, they had been given the green light for their transfer cycle with our frozen donor embryo. But a missing prescription had just as quickly put on the brakes. If the fertility nurse did not track down the recipients' doctor, get the prescription, fax it to the special fertility pharmacy and make sure the pharmacy expedited filling and mailing the medication, the cycle would be cancelled.
The deadline for all of this to happen was that afternoon at 3pm. Jenny called the pharmacy. No prescription had been filed. She called the clinic. The nurses were preforming procedures but the receptionist took a message. No one called back. Jenny checked the pharmacy again. Nothing.
Increasingly concerned, Jenny wrote me an email. I had worked with this clinic before. Should she lay off or keep calling? I urged Jenny to continue calling the clinic and leaving messages until the prescription was faxed. She could even call their medical emergency line -- this situation certainly seemed to qualify.
As a polite Southerner, Jenny worried that the clinic staff would find her behavior obnoxious. I urged her not to worry:
Finally the prescription went through. If the medication arrived via next day delivery, as promised, Jenny and Erin's cycle was on.
The deadline for all of this to happen was that afternoon at 3pm. Jenny called the pharmacy. No prescription had been filed. She called the clinic. The nurses were preforming procedures but the receptionist took a message. No one called back. Jenny checked the pharmacy again. Nothing.
Increasingly concerned, Jenny wrote me an email. I had worked with this clinic before. Should she lay off or keep calling? I urged Jenny to continue calling the clinic and leaving messages until the prescription was faxed. She could even call their medical emergency line -- this situation certainly seemed to qualify.
As a polite Southerner, Jenny worried that the clinic staff would find her behavior obnoxious. I urged her not to worry:
"
You and Erin are certainly the nicest patients they have. My wife and I spent many hours in that waiting room. You would not believe some of the scenes we witnessed. Women on big doses of hormones whose fertility cycles are not going well are easily annoyed, let's put it that way."
Finally the prescription went through. If the medication arrived via next day delivery, as promised, Jenny and Erin's cycle was on.
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