Yesterday’s egg retrieval went very well. We got 12 eggs and I am just sitting here waiting to hear the fertilization report.
For J we had 15 eggs with 8 fertilized, so here’s hoping we get at least 6 so that we can go to a five day blast. If five or less fertilize we go to a day three transfer, their rules not mine. I should proboly explain for those who haven’t gone through this, a five day blast is when the cells in the embryo blast apart. The Doctors at our clinic like to go for blast as they find this has a better success rate than an embryo that is still in the cell stage. A day three embryo would only be 8 cells. That is not to say that a day three won’t work, it has just been proven to be more effective to go to day five.
The surgery was quick and relatively painless, I asked for half the meds which was a blessing, there is nothing worse than being knocked out by drugs you don’t really need. I was doing so well I was allowed to leave a half hour after the surgery instead of an hour. I rested all day on the couch going in and out of sleep, watching grown up shows on tv and reading a good book. Ahhh, it was great. And today, my Mother is here cleaning my house so I don’t have to, gotta love it.
Will update again after getting the fert report.
is the day for retrival. All the follicles grew fast overnight, exactly what I thought. I will trigger tonight (this is such a technical term for forcing the maturity of my follicles) and I will be first on the block on Thursday morning, have to be there at 7:30am, good news is that I should be home by ten at the latest. YAY!
Bad news is my beta won’t be until after Christmas because they close over the Christmas weekend, etc. So, I will most likely cave and POS because I need to know before Christmas, that is just how I am.
I left J with my Sister today for my shopping morning. Got to my first store. Shopped. Put the stuff in the trunk. Put the key in the ignition. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Good old Dad was called in to the rescue, and as he doesn’t get to do it very often anymore, he was there in less than a half an hour. That is a record for him (I sat on the side of the 416 one beautiful spring day when I got off work early for an hour and a half waiting for gas, he made a few stops on the way to bring me the gas. And it was Hubby who told me I could go another 100km when the light came on… he was wrong). So Dad showed up, cleaned the contacts of the battery, jumped the sucker and off we went to our favorite garage. They are the best these guys, two Mexican brothers, checked out the car, determined that the battery was toast (car was dead again already) and had me with a new battery and some 2007 calendars within an hour. Gotta love the little guys, did I mention they are the best? So, I rushed to finish the last bit of Christmas shopping I had to finish (stuff for J and the kids) the rest for Hubby will just have to wait until I am back on my feet.
I did leave my Sister with some crafts for the kids that I prepared, they made some snowmen out of construction paper. They had a blast, and I arrived just at the right time when they had had enough of each other. Yet another day of J &J2.
Tonight, the tree!
It looks like the retrieval won’t be until Thursday, but most likely Friday now. Those suckers just can’t get it right for me, dragging this drug induced, headachey, making me impatient and grumpy for another two days (oh poor Hubby, he is at his end with the drugs). I have many and I mean many follicles, but only one was up at the 15mm level and they like at least four up there, the other 25 or 16 are in the 12 -14mm stage so either they will jump tonight and tomorrow will be my last ultrasound or they will drag it on just one more day. Argh.
On the good side it is giving me some extra time to get all things Christmasy on the road. My Sister and I are going to exchange days for finishing up shopping. J2 & A2 are coming here today so she can run around and then tomorrow I will drop J over when I go to the clinic and take the day to myself to finish up my lose ends. Perfect.
I think we might try some fun Christmasy stuff with J2 today, it should be lots of fun!
