Retrieval

It has been a tough week of monitoring. Had to go monday tuesday and wednesday at 6.30 ish for blood and ultrasound.
I have been so tired all week and anxious and excited all at same time. I had acupunture yesterday which really helped. They called me on Wednesday to say retrieval would be Friday. So, I did HCG shot on Wednesday night. David mixed up the bottles for me and I did the injection in my right thigh. At least it wasn't in the butt this time with D having to do it so that was great. My leg really hurt though on Thursday and was all red at the injection site but its fine today.

So, I went in for retrieval today. They got nine eggs! Yay! So, they're back to being called the names of Santas reindeer now. We did have a funny five minutes of thinking we could name a future baby after one of them but soon decided against Blitzen Baker.

It was a nice experience at the clinic. The nurses were all so lovely, except the one put my IV in wrong so they had to do it again while I'm in the operating room. Of course, then they couldn't get it in for ages and after about 3 more tries they finally found a vein. I am black an blue all over my arms now. This is not the first time this has happened. There was a couple that came in for transfer - we couldn't see them but the guy was asking the nurse what his morphology count was - it was 76 million last time he said. They told him he didn't know. When I got back after the retrieval David said that he had hunted down the head of morphology to find out and came back very pleased with himself.

The other thing was that Dr. Frankfurter couldn't do the retrieval so I had to have Dr. Gindoff. He's the one I went to see first at GW who I really didn't like and never wanted to set foot in that clinic again until my GYN told me I should try another dr. there, which is how we got Frankfurter. But as it happens, I have had no communication from Frankfurter himself during the last 3 weeks. When the nurse told me this morning it was Gindoff I said Oh, no, you're joking. Next thing Frankfurter was there apologizing profusely for not being able to do it - something about the snow and his week getting pushed back and having to see patients today. He said he would try his best to be there for the transfer. Should bloody think so. Kind of makes me wonder why it matters which Dr. I went for considering I haven't had to deal with them since the consultations. I saw Gindoff only briefly when he came to say there was nine eggs, but I only vaguely remember it as I had just come round.

We went in at 8am and David did his thing. Then I went in for retrieval at 9.30. I was back in the room at 10.15 and we left about 11.45 or so.
He got me some lunch and then went to the office to take all the kit back so that we could have the space in the car this weekend to move house. I put a film on 'Failure to launch' but only saw about the first 20 minutes as I fell asleep for the rest of it. Looked pretty rubbish anyway.
We just have to wait until tomorrow when they will be calling about the # that have fertilized. I am much calmer today. I guess I was more worried about the retrieval than I thought. I suppose its because of the poor results last time. I am just relieved to have more than 4 to play with.