It's Go Time
Posted by Me Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:40:00 GMT
Ultrasound and Blood Test went well this morning. We have 23 follicles! Definitely have a better response on these meds than before. As Dr. BT said I am a different person! Yowzers!
In any case, it is GO TIME! We trigger tonight at 11pm (5000 units of the hCG Shot). FUN! I go in tomorrow morning for a Blood Test and a Pre-op Check-up. My Retrieval is scheduled for Sunday at 10am. I have to be at the office at 9:30am. Lovely!
I am happy that it is Sunday because (a) I don’t have to take a day off from work (b) I am so damn uncomfortable that I would like to be relieved of all the eggs that are hopefully growing inside me. I really hope that there are indeed a lot of eggs there and Dr. BT will be able to retrieve them all. And once he does, I so hope they are super duper quality and make it to the Blastocyst Stage (5 days) which we need in order for them to be able to be frozen which is the plan! Please, please, please send us some good egg/retrieval vibes. We are far from out of the woods. Remember we are hoping for quantity and excellent quality!!!!! Last time we thought we would get 8 eggs at Retrieval Time and only ended up with 3. Out of which only 2 fertilized well enough to be transferred. One step at a time, but we could certainly use some good thoughts from everyone around. Anyone who has been through IVF knows that so many things can happen between now and Fertilization Stage. I just don’t want to be disappointed again after Retrieval. Last time it just sucked when Dr. BT told us they only got 3 eggs. 1 didn’t make it. The other 2 were transferred without success. :( Keep your fingers crossed.
Anyways, we shall see how the cookie will crumble. Right now, I am at risk for Ovarian Hyperstimulation so they have to monitor me and hence I am getting less of the hCG Shot. Yay, me!
I am nervous. Oh so nervous. I mean I have been here before, but you know. All this stuff is just crazy nerve-racking. You never know what’s going to happen. How everything will play out. The goal with any of this is to take it one step at a time. So, that’s what we will do. One step a time.
All righty, I need to change into comfy pants (also lovingly known as my fat pants), my stomach feels insanely tight! Goddamn the bloating!!!!! To top it all off, I have to eat dried prunes to help soften up my stool. Yes, I have been having bowel issues. Dr. BT said I am de-hydrated and need to step up my bran intake. So, in addition to feeling like a giant water balloon crammed into pants that are 3 sizes to small, I am a veritable farting machine as well. It’s been very distracting trying to wrap up work while hearing my stomach making odd sounds. It’s just not happy!
Ahh well, no pain no gain! On that note, have a lovely Friday evening everyone! I’ll keep you posted on how things go.