It’s been a week full of
doctor appointments. We had one on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and will also be
going Saturday and Sunday.
Yes, we are that high-maintenance
that they have to do ultrasounds and blood work every day. The doctor has been
a little worried as he monitored me because I have so, so, so many follicles
and am now in high risk for hyper-stimulation. Also, in the past two days my
estrogen level has increased exponentially. This all happened last year, so we
weren’t real surprised, but it is good to keep an eye on because we don’t want
to screw anything up.
There is some physical pain
associated with all of this too. I’ve got my bruised and tender belly, and on Wednesday
I started having abdominal pain. After the ultrasound on Thursday we are guessing
the pain is from how big and heavy my ovaries are from all of the follicles on
them. It hasn’t been so fun. Doing ultrasounds every day adds to the ovary pain
too.
But the good news is that we
will be doing EGG RETRIEVAL ON SUNDAY (way to bury the lead, right?). We took
our “trigger” shot tonight and we will retrieve first thing Sunday morning. It’ll
be a good Father’s Day if we can make some babies - even if it isn’t the fun
way. ;)
It is still amazing to me
that any of this is even possible. Modern medicine is really a miracle!
Keep us in your prayers! We
want everything to go smoothly: lots of eggs retrieved, all of them able to get
fertilized, and then do lots of healthy growing. And it’d be nice if I didn’t
get sick from the anesthesia, but that would be a first. We will keep you
updated on how things go on Sunday.
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