Egg Retrieval

Cody patiently waiting with me in the room before surgery.


Yesterday was the egg retrieval ( or as Cody calls it the 'egg laying' day) and I am just now getting out of bed and showered at 7:30pm the following day. I wasn't nervous or scared yesterday at all, just excited! When I came out of the surgery room, I was immediately in pain on my right side. They gave me more pain medication and had to watch me. Once I peed then I could leave. So, after I peed the pain was worse. The nurse paged Dr. Eblen to come back and check me out. She did an ultrasound to double check and be sure everything looked the way is should. There were 5 pockets of pooled blood, and she said that was the cause of the pain. She said to rest and take pain pills and I would feel fine in a couple days. I took pain pills every four hours today and feel about 90% myself! I hope I will wake up tomorrow and feel 100%. As a reward to myself I foresee a pedicure and maybe lounging by the pool reading one of my new books all day tomorrow.

They were able to retrieve 10 eggs total. They fertilized 9 eggs with the ICSI procedure and only 7 of those eggs "took" and were progressing as of today. I will know more tomorrow on the growth and whether it will be a 3 or 5 day transfer. If all goes well, the transfer will be Monday (5 day)and the embryos will continue to grow on their own.

Yesterday also marked the first day of the "big" shots. I was still hopped up on medication so I didn't over think or analyze I just dropped my pants and hoped by booty was thick enough for it not to hurt! As I am waiting (mind you half naked and bent over) Cody goes white in the face and says "I can't do this, the needle is HUGE and is going to hurt you!" You guessed it, that's when I freaked out! So, after a little pep talk and explaining I was still drugged and didn't care, he got up the nerve and gave it to me. After all the drama of the preparation, it really didn't hurt. ;)

I've been waiting for this week for so long. I am excited to make it through the transfer and get wonderful news on the other side!