I made the three hour drive to Birmingham yesterday morning and had a good monitoring appointment. The nurse measured the largest 9 follicles and said most of them were mature. She said she thought that’d I’d be able to trigger, but I’d have to wait to until later that afternoon when my blood work came back to be sure. I asked how many she thought there were total, and she said she saw at least 10 in my right ovary (yeah!) and not as many in my left. I’m hoping that this means we’ll get more than 11 eggs, and that they’ll be mature, baby making eggs! I’m going for quality over quantity this time around, since last time we got 21 eggs (20 mature), and still only ended up with two embryos to transfer and one to freeze.
I received a call on my way home from my IVF coordinator letting me know that my blood work came back and I was ready to do my trigger shot. I made it through stims!! So, last night at 9:15pm, as instructed, I mixed up my HCG and Anthony injected the huge 1.5 inch needed into my upper buttox/hip area. I was freaking out again since it’s been a few months since I’ve had to use those needles, but it wasn’t too bad. I better get used to it because daily progesterone injections begin later this week with the same size needle. Egg retrievals are scheduled 36 hours after the trigger shot, so my retrieval is set for 9:15am tomorrow. Anthony and I will be heading up to Birmingham in an hour or so to stay the night since we have to be there an hour before the retrieval. I wish I could enjoy my one night of zero shots, but I have to do an enema instead. I think I’d rather do an injection! I’ll update you all tomorrow to let you know how many eggs were retrieved. Wish me luck; love you all!
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