My co-worker brought me some coffee cake and coffee in the morning. And after work I was feeling good enough that my husband and I went out for a nice dinner. But I think the real reason I was feeling good was that I was told that I would go in for my egg retrieval at 10:15 on Thursday. It felt so good to have it scheduled and to know that I would finally get these eggs out of me. I also was told that I'm not at risk for OHSS. I won't go into too much detail, but basically some women can get really sick when going through IVF treatment. It's such a relief to find out that I won't be one of those women.
My one responsibility for the evening was to take my trigger shot right at 10:45 pm. The trigger alerts your body to ovulate. Obviously, this is very important because an early or late ovulation can cause major problems for egg retrieval. Luckily, my husband injected the trigger right at 10:45 so we should be all set for retrieval.
Tonight I actually get a night off from injections. This will be my only night off until the end of my first trimester (if I get pregnant) or until I find out I'm definitely not pregnant. The other nice thing about today is that the trigger shot tells my ovaries to stop producing eggs so I'm experiencing some relief from all the discomfort I was experiencing.
I'm starting to get really nervous for my retrieval tomorrow. Obviously, I'm so happy that this is finally happening, but I want to feel minimal discomfort during the procedure and I want them to get lots of eggs and I want to know that the majority of those eggs have fertilized. I know I've made it this far and I can continue to do this, but there is still stress to come. I just have to keep telling myself that I've given this cycle my all and the rest is out of my control.
Thank you all so much for following along. I will try to update tomorrow if I feel up to it. If not, you'll hear from me on Friday.
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