Turns out being almost bled dry at the lab was good for something. They took about 16 vials of blood about a month ago to check for blood clotting problems. Yesterday I got the results. There were two indications that I "have a tendency to throw clots" my nurse said. Hmmm. So of course I googled everything. Some web sites even suggest people with my condition wear Medical Alert bracelets, because if they need emergency surgery or end up having to lie around in a hospital bed for a while, the doctors need to put them on blood thinners.

A couple of years ago I saw those glamourous compression stockings at our local drug store. They were marked way down. I’m not one to ignore a bargain, so I picked up a pair… thinking they’d be a good idea for long airplane trips. My husband looked at me like I was crazy (which I am, of course). Now it seems the compression stockings were a prudent buy, since I am prone to deep vein thrombosis, especially during air travel. We like to go to far away places… the kind of trips where you are on the plane for more than 20 hours at a time.

So now I have one more daily injection to add to my IVF protocol: lovenox. What a sultry name, except it’s not pronounced the way you would think. I’m thinking LOVE + NOX. Noxious means "harmful to health or physical well-being or morally harmful; corrupting". Sounds like fodder for the lyrics of a country song, but I’m not a fan of country. I’ve read that the lovenox shots tend to cause lots of bruising and they sting. I’ll be doing them out of love… love for my husband and love for my future children (I hope). Anything for a baby…

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