Finding my groove

I am almost a week into my shots and I think I finally have this schedule down.  Just in time to add more medications soon!  All of the new medications have been shipped and should be here soon!  The time seems to be flying by so hopefully it stays this way.  It took a few days to find my groove but now that I have it, it has been much easier.  In the end all of the medications, shots, traveling, and sickness will be worth it.  All of the testing we need is done and now we are almost ready to hit the next of many milestones in this journey, the egg retrieval.  Once this step is done we have one more big milestone which is the embryo transfer and the last milestone which I think may be the longest wait is waiting the 2 weeks to be able to take a pregnancy test!
We are still trying to do fundraisers and sell everything we can to help with IVF costs.  I am glad we thought about this for the last few years to help prepare us.  Luckily we have awesome friends and family that have helped with fundraising in different ways for us.  It has been a huge stress reliever for Tony and I!

It takes a village...or a small town

     I have always heard the saying that it takes a village to raise a child.  Well in our case it takes a small town to help conceive a child and then raise it.  I know this sounds funny but its so true in our case!  I am speechless at the kindness of people in our small town.  A very special person who has been in my life a long time and my mom started an auction for us and people have been so kind to donate items and bid on items.  Some of the people don't even know Tony and I and they have been so kind to help out perfect strangers.  We are so lucky to have such amazing people in our life.  Even with how the economy is, and having a family of their own to take care of, people are still helping us out.  We are so thankful and there really isn't enough ways to say thank you.
     We are getting excited to start the IVF roller coaster and experience this miracle.  We finally feel calm about the situation.  We have an amazing doctor that we both like and the clinic is amazing!  Of course it is in Scottsdale so as you can imagine it lives up to the city's name also.  Everyone in the office is amazing and so supportive.  Our families are behind us 100% and our friends are so amazing and here for us throughout the journey.  I feel less stress this time around and I think that is a good sign!