one more day...already!

When they told us that we had to wait till September to do IVF, it felt so far away, now it feels like it is going very fast!

So far this process has been going well! I’ve taken 2-3 shots a day, and yesterday I took the “trigger” shot which means that tomorrow is retrieval day!! (It also means my sore gigantic boobs are back. Every time I turned over last night, I woke up from the pain. Ouch) During the last ultra sound they saw 20 eggs – and they think that 11 will be mature enough to fertilize.
We are very hopeful and optimistic at this point, praying and believing that this will be successful.

(I want to thank you again for all of your prayers! Everyday I am amazed at how great I’ve felt and how well things are going – even my ultra sound tech has been commenting on how “beautiful” my follicles are this time – no one’s ever told me I have beautiful follicles before ;) sniff sniff - tee hee)

Yesterday I went to pick up my new medication. I am going from giving my self 2 or 3 needles a day to 12 pills and 3 suppositories a day! I didn’t think I would prefer needles, but I have to say - all those pills seems little overwhelming right now.

Speaking of needles – I have to go for acupuncture today. They highly recommend it, saying that it’ll increase our chance of success by 10 percent. This is all new to me and I have no idea what to expect! I just have images of Pete giving Addison acupuncture in the show Private Practice...he leaves the room and she starts crying. Hmmm am I sure I want to do this? ;)

Tonight I have to stop eating and drinking by midnight, which shouldn’t be too hard since I plan to go to bed nice and early. We have to leave our house at 5:30am to arrive at the clinic at 7am. I will change into a hospital gown and they will give me a sedative. Then just before the procedure the nurse will help me go to the bathroom. K, so I am about to have surgery and the thing I am most concerned about is the nurse helping me go to the bathroom when I am all “drugged up”…I can imagine it being very embarrassing! The rest of it I will be sleeping through, so I won’t remember it anyway. And the rest of the day will be spent relaxing at home! We have some shows and movies to watch and might even get delivery of some sort for dinner – something that we never do!

So it should be good! I am trying to stay positive and not even think about things that could go wrong. I even stopped reading the “side effects” on the medications because otherwise I think about it too much. The funny thing is that I keep having bad dreams – about crazy things like: I ovulate and when I go for the surgery they find that all the eggs are gone, or I even had a dream that I was being attacked so I pulled out my needle and shot the guy in the neck with my medication. It knocked him out, but then I realized I didn’t have enough to give myself and the whole cycle would have to be cancelled. Too many movies perhaps?

I better get ready for the day. I’ll try and post tomorrow and tell you all about the procedure!