After a certain amount of drama resulting from storm-related issues, our donor took her trigger shot and our retrieval is done!* My original medication calendar has been revised so many times that they had to write me a new one from scratch. It has been... a roller coaster of a week, but for the moment there is hope.
Prof went by himself to drop off the swim team (a first in our ART adventures). Afterwards, he said the crowd in the waiting room was particularly bizarre. So bizarre that he thought perhaps someone slipped some LSD in his coffee.
The nurse called a few hours post-retrieval to let us know that we got eleven eggs. They will do ICSI on half and let the rest fertilize naturally (or as naturally as possible when floating in a petri dish). Don't ask me how they "half" an odd number of eggs...
Welcome to my sci-fi life.
UPDATED:
Nine of the eleven eggs were mature.
Eight fertilized.
We are scheduled for a Day3 transfer.
*You wouldn't believe the amount of tension and relief deceptively
encapsulated in that single sentence. Really, I should get some kind of
award for understatement there.
Happy you're on this side of the retrieval! Sending good thoughts for those 8, and for your transfer!
ReplyDeleteYAY!!! So excited for you! I hope you get awesome results!!!
ReplyDeleteSlackie!!! I swear I teared up when I read that your donor had her retrieval, and saw the update with full on fert information. Not even a damn hurricane could derail this retrieval.
ReplyDeleteSo so happy things have gone well so far. Holding as much hope for you as I possibly can!
Yay! Sounds like things are going well now....8 is a good number! Good luck!!
ReplyDeleteWoot Woot! Getting closer, fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteomg! Slackie!!! this is awesome! EEEE! I'm just so excited for you and i have a whole lot of hope for you over here. FX FX FX!
ReplyDeleteGrow embies, grow!
My fingers are bruised from the intensity of crossing for you.
ReplyDeleteVery good news. Really hoping for you.
ReplyDeleteHere is your award!!
ReplyDeleteand uhm, will you please write another post on the Profs description of a waiting room on LSD? puppy-eyes-please?
And I know that what happened with our numbers doesn't mean anything for you, but we also had 2 immature eggs, so I'm so hopeful for you! Also 3 day transfer... 8 cell and 9 cell, nothing to freeze and now almost 25 weeks with a singleton.
(and in hindsight I'm glad my clinic didn't tell me the numbers blow by blow, I just showed up to hear we would have 2 embryos for transfer)
Yeah go fantastic eight!!! That's great news, good luck on the transfer!!!
ReplyDeleteYay!!!! Awesomeness :) super happy for you. I have my fingers and toes crossed for you and the embies :) here's to hoping this is it **
ReplyDeleteThis is great!!! I am so so so hopeful that you get some lovely embies and have a wonderful transfer.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell if my last comment went through so forgive me if I'm unintentionally repeating myself! Yaaay for 8! I'm so excited for you and will be sending you an endless stream of positive, loving supportive vibes! xoxo
ReplyDeleteEight fertilized That is great! Everything crossed!
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited for you. That's a great fertilization rate and I think you're well on your way!!! I know I say this all the time, but it's true: I am so hoping that this is IT for you and the Prof!
ReplyDeleteSending so many positive thoughts your way!!!
ReplyDeleteWhewwwwwww! Big sigh of relief for you. Lots of happy hopeful thoughts for your transfer.
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