Wow! Stims have gone fast! We did ganerelix on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Friday we triggered. The ball is really rolling now. Egg Retrieval was on Sunday, today. Its so weird going under. One minute you are BSing with Dr. Maude and the next.. Your awake with a bad taste in your mouth. So far I am feeling pretty good. It was a crazy week getting here.
Our son's 2nd birthday was Thursday, the same day I had an Ultra Sound and Blood work at our local clinic. Shortly after this our RE's office in Omaha saying that the local clinic had called them and told them their Estrodol machine was broken and they were concerned about the measurements from my Ultra Sound of my lining. So they wanted us to drive up to Omaha and be at their office between 7 and 9 to have the RE redo the Ultra Sound and do the Blood work. So off to Omaha for the night we went, with a short stop at Applebee's to celebrate our son's birthday.
Turns out the trip was worth it, my lining was quite a bit thicker. I was told I have to take a baby aspirin each day and Retrieval would be Sunday. Now that in and of its self was a journey.
We have only told 3 people that we are in this process, my boss, my husbands boss, and a close friend for babysitting purposes. Well we had our son's 2nd birthday party on Saturday and had previously asked my mother to babysit so that we could take our friend out for her birthday. Turns out we are needing to head to Omaha on Saturday so I have to think fast of a good excuse as to why we need to be gone overnight. We ended up telling my mother that we were going to go to Council Bluffs to the Casino for this friends birthday and would be staying the night. She agreed to watch our son, but was worried about the weather for our driving. Later during the party the whole family found out we were going "gambling", needless to say several family members were quite shocked and probably less than impressed. It turned into an awkward conversation and my white lie was getting bigger.
We ended up driving to Omaha in a winter storm warning (I swear my family is going to have an intervention) and a drive that usually takes just about 2 hours ended up taking over 3. Ugh. At least we had a nice meal in the end of it :)
Retrieval was easy. As I said before, awake one minute, out the next.. They were able to retrieve 21 eggs, which made me a little happier. Obviously I do not need that many, but I want to make sure we have several frozen in case we have to go to a Frozen Embryo Transfer as we did with Doodle. We wait a few days and Wednesday we transfer. Tomorrow I will know how many were fertilized.
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