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Surgery number 3 in 4 months went well. I am going to have to give up my aspiring Hawaiian Tropic bikini modeling as I do not see any way they can airbrush 8 scars from my abdomen. Maybe with Photoshop I have a chance…

My surgery yielded 6 mature eggs. I am not sure how many they removed to get down to 6, but I will find out the details later. Dr. Letterie also said that my ovaries are in a really good place, and hopefully will be out of the radiation field. We will also find out how many of the six eggs fertilized well enough to be frozen by Monday.

Speaking of fertilization; Scott got to experience another room-of-romantic-explosion and the College Girls of Playboy! If a baby comes from all of this, it’ll make for an interesting story for the child…”You see, honey, your father was fantasizing about another woman in another room while mommy was having her insides aspirated. Then we flew you to another woman’s tummy where you grew for 9 months, we went on an extended vacation and then picked you up from the woman’s tummy after writing her a large check.” All in the name of selfish preservation of DNA.

If anyone had told me on my 18th birthday, half my age ago, that I would have cervical cancer, a radical hysterectomy, be going through IVF with cryopresevation, AND chemoradiotherapy by 36 I would have declared that person either a complete f*#kwit or high. But here I sit on the eve of my 36th birthday having gone through almost all of that and I think I am doing pretty well. Right now I am in the middle of ovarian stimulation which requires an injection of Gonal-F in the morning and Menopur in the evening. Soon that routine will change slightly, and so will the drugs, as the follicles (they want about 20) grow on my ovaries for retrieval on April 30th. I cannot even do the retrieval the “right” way either. That is going to require yet ANOTHER laparoscopic surgery to get the buggers. Keep in mind, fertility fans, that the NORMAL way to do this is to have ONE follicle mature, release, go down the fallopian tube into the uterus, and then actually have SEX to conceive. This baby-in-a-petri-dish process is going well enough, but is really bizarre on so many levels. Ask Scott about the porn offered at the office for his “test”. It’s a story only worthy of a conversation.

NEEDLE COUNT TO BEGIN. POOL TO BE SET UP FOR TOTAL NEEDLES STUCK IN ME THROUGH CERVICAL CANCER TREATMENT. POOL TO END WITH FINAL CHEMO/RADIATION ON JUNE 15. I will be going through the fertility process (lots of needles), acupuncture and the chemoradiotherapy. That might sway your amount. Please post your total in the comment section and let’s see how many pricks a person can take

CURRENT TOTAL:34

Let’s start back with staging of cancer (MRI) and surgery: 1 needle for MRI contrast, 4 needles for ivs in the OR (the anesthesiologist missed the first two, got one right and I knocked it out after surgery) and 2 needles for blood draws before and after surgery.

April 27, 2007: 3 needles; 1 for an IV, 1 for blood tests and 1 for egg aspiration from ovaries.

April 26, 2007: 2 needles; 1 biggie hormone injection and 1 blood draw.

April 25, 2007: 3 needles; 2 for hormone injections and 1 for blood draw.

April 24, 2007: 4 needles; 3 for hormone injections and 1 for blood draw.

April 23, 2007: 3 needles; 2 for hormone injections and 1 for blood draw.

April 22, 2007: HAPPY 40th ANNIVERSARY Mom and Dad. 3 needles; 2 for hormone injections and 1 for blood draw.

April 21, 2007: 3 needles; 2 for hormone injections and 1 for blood draw.

April 20, 2007: 2 needles for self-administered hormone injections.

April 19, 2007: 2 needles for self-administered hormone injections.

April 18, 2007: 1 needle for blood tests at fertility doctor.

April 16, 2007: 1 needle for blood tests at fertility doctor.