{"id":277,"date":"2017-05-31T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T00:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/?p=277"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T17:56:59","slug":"today-is-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/2017\/05\/31\/today-is-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Is My Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is my birthday. Who would have thought that I was scheduled to have sonohysterogram on my birth anniversary. This is a procedure to prepare for the frozen embryo transfer? The purpose is to detect if there’s any abnormalities since the egg retrieval and hormonal treatment.<\/p>\n

I have heard so many scary stories about what people have found during the procedure – polys , tumors, unknown tissues, etc. I have also been told about how discomfort it could cause.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is…I hate vaginal-ultrasound. That thingy is never ever girl’s best friend. And if you are putting saline and a balloon in it for a scan, that doesn’t sound like a pleasant experience to me at all.<\/p>\n

So I was mentally prepared that something would have gone wrong…or the Dr might say something like “hmm, we found something. And we will need to delay your embryo transfer. I am sorry!”<\/p>\n

I was holding my husband’s hand so tight as I was so worry that it could be very painful. Even my hubby thought that I would bite him (for stress relief). While my Dr was inserting all sort of ‘materials’ to get ready for the scan, I was anxiously waiting for the ‘pain’ to happen. I waited and waited…nothing yet. Then all the sudden, my Dr said “Ok. Everything looks fine. Your uterus is perfect. Good luck on your transfer!”<\/p>\n

The scan by itself was less than 10 secs.<\/p>\n

WHAT? That’s it?! I have a perfect uterus?!?! You kidding me?<\/p>\n

Disbelief. For days and weeks, I told myself that I ain’t the lucky one who would have a smooth cycle. I never would have thought to have a ‘perfect uterus’. I sat by the ultrasound machine and kept asking my Dr for any possible signs of imperfection. The answer was still ‘No’. She took off her gloves and left the room.<\/p>\n

So…this is it. I am one step closer to transfer. I have the privilege to continue this path. This is scary, yet surreal.<\/p>\n

Today is my birthday. The birthday present I gave to myself is a perfect uterus. \u00a0Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is my birthday. Who would have thought that I was scheduled to have sonohysterogram on my birth anniversary. This is a procedure to prepare for the frozen embryo transfer? The purpose is to detect if there’s any abnormalities since the egg retrieval and hormonal treatment. I have heard so many scary stories about what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}