Glad that's over with

Well I for one am super happy this morning is over with.  The part everyone is interested in,  we had 9 eggs retrieved.  We should get a call tomorrow to find out how many fertilized.

The morning started ok,  I couldn't sleep much last night but thankfully we were the first ones in.

The nurse who was there today appparanly is not super good at putting in IVs.  I have small, deep,  rolly veins.  Not so good to get an IV in on someone who couldn't eat or drink for the last 12 hours.  I seriously think she was about to give up but thankfully after about 15 minutes she finally got the IV in. (and actually did a good job,  no bruise!)

We then got to speak to the doctor and I expressed my concerns regarding how much the retrieval hurt last time so they agreed to add some Ketamine to mix of meds.

We were then brought into the procedure room and they administered all the fancy drugs.  I loved the drugs,  they definately made me completely out of it.  The only problme was,  by the time they started,  the drugs were already wearing off!  They didn't believe me but my husband could also for sure tell.  I guess I metabolize the stuff much faster than the average person.

So overall if anything I found this time to be even more painful than the last.  They had issues draining the follicles for some reason and also ended up changing the needle like 2 or 3 times.  I don' t remember that happening last time for sure.   The procdure itself ended up taking more time than the last.

Now that it's over,  I am in quite a bit of pain.  Last time I had some menstrual type cramps for the rest of the day but nothing a heating pad couldn't help with.  This time I could barely move up until about a half hour ago and the heating pad and tylenol were not cutting it.  Thankfully I seem to have turned the corner and am feeling quite a bit better and now able to sit up and write this!


I am also a little disappointed about the amount of eggs retrieved.  I know 9 is a good number but last time all the follicles had eggs and they didn't this time.  I can't help but wonder if the follicles they had issues draining were the culprit?

Let's just hope all those 9 fertilize and keep growing until day 5!  Now we just wait and see.