Itchy, itchy...

Well, I haven't posted much since our failed cycle. We have been busy! Mark got a new job working for Paychex (see previous post), we moved to Utah in mid July and we had our second attempt at IVF set for August 23rd. Yep, thats in a week and a half! If you didn't know we were already doing another IVF, don't worry, no one did. We decided to tell only family this time, to save us on stress.

BUT....last week I started to get a little itchy. Okay, REALLY itchy. I had some painful little red bumps popping up across my stomach and my side. Mosquito bites? Bed bugs? Ticks? What the heck are these things?! After a visit to my family doctor it was determined....shingles. Yes, shingles. Ugh. So since we are only a week away from our transfer I was already on my IVF meds, had my appointments scheduled, blood work done...I called Dr. Marrs and he is not comfortable doing the transfer with the shingles being active :( I don't know that much about shingles, but apparently I could pass them to the baby through the umbilical cord- and that could be life threatening to the unborn baby (http://www.webmd.com/baby/shingles-during-pregnancy).

Sounds kinda crazy, but I have so much love for our frozen little embryos (yeah, I told you it sounds crazy!)...I just can't imagine doing anything that would harm them. Canceling our frozen transfer is disappointing of course, but not nearly as devastating as what could have happened. Sooooo, back to the waiting game. I need to work on getting myself healthy again, and hopefully we can do our frozen transfer before the year is up.