I thought I’d post a pic on our last day at home:

This photo pretty much sums up the last few weeks of our lives: injections, questions, and showgirls. Shawna’s been handling everything for this trip/endeavor; I’ve just been working and injecting.  I hope she knows that it doesn’t mean that I don’t care; it’s just that it’s about as much as I can handle right now. 

We haven’t really posted much on the Baby #2 Project–I was hoping Shawna would give more details to document our cycle, since we have no recollection of what we did the first couple of times around.  But things being as they are, neither of us have had the time or energy to do so.  Things have been nuts, so we’ve both been on auto-pilot trying to get to the point where we can leave–and we’ve been missing each other like ships in the night. 

We finally talked about this cycle last night until 2am, and it was cathartic.  We talked about our hopes and fears about this cycle, and what it means for the short- and long-term future.  I am so ready for this to work, so we can move on with our lives. She needs this to work.  We have so much invested in this cycle: although we managed to get into a free research study, we are lugging our family halfway across the country, and, more significantly, we think that this is going to be our last IVF cycle.

Hopefully luck will be with us in Vegas.