Another ultrasound & bloodwork. We got the go-ahead today for our TRIGGER SHOT!
Now normal people are waiting and waiting for their trigger. They are sooooo excited to get to this point, because there is no more waiting- it's happening.
** Now Piper's blog debut!---->
When my doctor came in smiling from ear-to-ear saying "you're ready! it's trigger day!" I gave out the same fake "yayyyyyy" that I do when Im fully booked at work, have one 30 min spot open and someone tells me it got booked...hahaha! Instead I felt this wave of ohhh my god, this is happening. The stim mode was the safe time. Now, there is so much uncertainty and we find out all the answers: how many eggs can be retrieved? how many will fertilize? how many will survive? will I get severe OHSS? can we do a fresh transfer? will they live to transfer? etc etc etc etc.
When I was waiting at the pharmacy, some cute blonde girl, looking close to my age was told she was triggering tonight too. She was just squeeing all over the place. "Oh my god, I'm so excited, yes trigger, finally!" and I sit there excited/want to barf. She practically skipped out of there, while I made awkward jokes with the pharmacy ladies and slinked outta there with my giant bag of drugs.
I had a better ultrasound, #operationpoop was a success yesterday. The tech was an amazing lady I have had before. She's very "mother earth, tree-huggin', warm-hearted" kinda lady. She chatted the entire time and was very positive and even shared the up and downs of working in a fertility clinic. She explains- it's the most incredible experience to be a part of someones biggest step in life, and it is also the hardest/saddest to be there too. She herself, was never able to have children, but yet, is an ultrasound tech at a fertility clinic. She's pretty amazing.
Well. I am doing one last Gonal-F (estrogen had levelled out, need a boost) and the Ovidrel shot (trigger) tonight. NO DRUGS tomorrow! now heres a real- YAY!! The ovidrel matures the eggs, prepares for them to be collected and makes your body think it ovulated.
Egg retrieval is set for Wednesday November 5th @ 8am. Mike will be there to do his part and we will be fertilizing the eggs via ICSI- taking a single sperm and injecting it directly into the egg to fertilize as opposed to putting them together in a dish. We will know how many were collected but probably not till the next day how many fertilized, have survived so far etc. Hopefully transfer back 1-2 perfect embryos this coming weekend. I will explain in detail the retrieval and how it all works in a few days.
Below are some "what infertility looks like" photos. From bloating, bruises & needles in my cheese/butter holder lol.
xxoo
Now normal people are waiting and waiting for their trigger. They are sooooo excited to get to this point, because there is no more waiting- it's happening.
** Now Piper's blog debut!---->
When my doctor came in smiling from ear-to-ear saying "you're ready! it's trigger day!" I gave out the same fake "yayyyyyy" that I do when Im fully booked at work, have one 30 min spot open and someone tells me it got booked...hahaha! Instead I felt this wave of ohhh my god, this is happening. The stim mode was the safe time. Now, there is so much uncertainty and we find out all the answers: how many eggs can be retrieved? how many will fertilize? how many will survive? will I get severe OHSS? can we do a fresh transfer? will they live to transfer? etc etc etc etc.
When I was waiting at the pharmacy, some cute blonde girl, looking close to my age was told she was triggering tonight too. She was just squeeing all over the place. "Oh my god, I'm so excited, yes trigger, finally!" and I sit there excited/want to barf. She practically skipped out of there, while I made awkward jokes with the pharmacy ladies and slinked outta there with my giant bag of drugs.
I had a better ultrasound, #operationpoop was a success yesterday. The tech was an amazing lady I have had before. She's very "mother earth, tree-huggin', warm-hearted" kinda lady. She chatted the entire time and was very positive and even shared the up and downs of working in a fertility clinic. She explains- it's the most incredible experience to be a part of someones biggest step in life, and it is also the hardest/saddest to be there too. She herself, was never able to have children, but yet, is an ultrasound tech at a fertility clinic. She's pretty amazing.
Well. I am doing one last Gonal-F (estrogen had levelled out, need a boost) and the Ovidrel shot (trigger) tonight. NO DRUGS tomorrow! now heres a real- YAY!! The ovidrel matures the eggs, prepares for them to be collected and makes your body think it ovulated.
Egg retrieval is set for Wednesday November 5th @ 8am. Mike will be there to do his part and we will be fertilizing the eggs via ICSI- taking a single sperm and injecting it directly into the egg to fertilize as opposed to putting them together in a dish. We will know how many were collected but probably not till the next day how many fertilized, have survived so far etc. Hopefully transfer back 1-2 perfect embryos this coming weekend. I will explain in detail the retrieval and how it all works in a few days.
Below are some "what infertility looks like" photos. From bloating, bruises & needles in my cheese/butter holder lol.
xxoo