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Surviving the Two-Week Wait

Notes on keeping your mind from running the clock, from a therapist who has been inside it.

The two weeks between transfer and result are the hardest days of a cycle, and almost nobody prepares you for them. This one-page guide is what I tell my clients, and what I had to learn myself: how to stop reading your body like tea leaves, how to give the worry an appointment, and how to get through the two days that carry the most feeling.

• Why the medication lies, and what to say to yourself when you catch yourself symptom-spotting
• How to set your checking rules once, in daylight, so 2 a.m. does not decide for you
• The fifteen-minute worry window that gives the spiral a container
• What to plan for transfer day and beta day, the two days that need a soft place to land
• Two prepared sentences for "just relax" and "any news?"
• Why telling one person the truth lowers the cost of every composed conversation
• Cautious optimism, on purpose: how to hold hope and dread in the same hour

Dr. Dezetta Burnett, DSW, LCSW · Burnett Clinical Group