Wow, it’s been a while.
Sorry about that, but things moved very quickly from Saturday on.
I had monitoring early Saturday morning and the nurse called
in the early afternoon. Lo and behold it
was go time. I would take both trigger
shots that night at 9:30pm and go in for the egg retrieval at 9am Monday morning. Having to take both triggers was a good sign
that I wasn’t at risk for OHSS.
On Sunday it was another early morning to get ready for a NJ
Dreamer’s baby shower. I met up with a
fellow NJ Dreamer and we drove down to South Jersey together. The shower was a blast and had lots of very
fun games. We even ended up winning the ‘build
a baby item with play-doh’ game! It was
great to see the girls and I got lots of well wishes for the following day.
Monday morning came very quickly. Luckily the threat of snow had delayed a lot
of schools and the roads were relatively clear.
There was barely a dusting on the ground when we left the house. After signing some paperwork I was taken into
the back to change. I was happy to see
my RE would be doing the procedure. The
anesthesiologist came in and inserted the IV.
I’ve never had a hand IV before and it hurt like hell going in. They had me walk into the procedure room and
get set up on the table. As the nurses
prepped everything the anesthesiologist started to give me the happy
drugs. The first one was an anti-nausea
med. The second was a relaxant. I felt it go through my whole body and started
to feel sleepy. The last one he did was
the drug to knock me out. The last thing
I remember was the nurses wrapping my legs and one of them smiled at me.
The next thing I knew I was waking up in recovery. They brought Dave in and we sat for a bit
while the fog cleared. Dr. S came in to
give his report. They had retrieved ten
eggs from my right ovary. My left ovary
had ended up fixed behind my uterus and he didn’t want to risk going through
the uterus to get to it. I would ovulate
any mature eggs on that ovary naturally.
Because of this I would not have to take the vaginal progesterone meds. The embryologist would call me the next day
with our fertilization report. I was
instructed to take it easy for the next few days and call on CD1 to get the
ball rolling for the FET. Once I felt
better we headed home and I laid in bed the rest of the day.
I stayed home from work on Tuesday as I was still very sore
and unable to move around much comfortably.
The embryologist called around 8:30 with our fertilization report. Out of the ten eggs retrieved only four were
mature. All four had fertilized without
assistance. We would get our final
report on Monday. This would tell us how
many made it to blastocysts, were biopsied, and then frozen. The CCS testing results would come a few days
later.
So now we are stuck in limbo until Monday. I’m feeling very nervous about only having
four little butterflies. Yes, they could
all be amazing and make it to freeze, but I was hoping to have more. I am so mad at my left ovary. Maybe it was a stupid dream to think that we
could get away with having one IVF and only have to do FETs to get all of our
children. I guess we’ll just have to
wait and see.
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