Mark left yesterday for a business trip and will be out of town until Thursday evening.  Knowing that, it totally figures that today on cycle day 13 my OPK is 100% positive.  Only twice in my 14 cycles of charting have I ever ovulated on cycle day 14 or earlier, and one of those times was brought on by a trigger shot of HCG so it totally figures that the ONE cycle that Mark is unavailable until cycle day 15 I will ovulate early.  There goes the dream of getting a miracle natural BFP during this break cycle before we begin IVF.  Oh well.  It would have been a long shot anyway. 

It will be extremely strange to go through a two week wait with absolutely no chance of being pregnant.  I have no idea if that will make things go faster or slower, but there will definitely be less anticipation.

In more positive news, I passed my clomid challenge test!  My cycle day 10 blood work showed an FSH of 4.3, so that puts me well under the maximum combined total of 20 for the two FSH scores and means that I passed!  I e-mailed our (hopefully) new clinic and told them that we have had almost all of the required pretesting done within the last year.  I wanted to know if we would need to repeat all of those tests, or if they would just take them as is and let us into the IVF shared risk program.  She stated that if the doctor felt that “the results were within normal range then we would not need to repeat.”   This is great news for us as hopefully it means a small cost savings for us, but more importantly it means that we will hopefully be able to get going on an IVF cycle as soon as this cycle is over.  Of course I don’t want to be overly optimistic as I know that something will probably come up that will prevent us from getting going right away, but I sure hope that we can start at the end of this cycle.