eggs, sunny side up

good news!  i went in this morning for another blood draw and scan and the follicles are looking much better.  sheesh, what a difference a day can make.  the follicles on the left side are humongous (my term, not theirs) and the ones on the right while still small are still growing. egg retrieval will be this friday bright and early. josh and i are staying overnight in a hotel near the hospital thursday night as they requested.  if we were to drive up the morning of and hit traffic or have an accident i could ovulate and my eggs would be gone!  crazy stuff.  we are definitely not taking any chances there!

i am going to go up prior to josh on thursday and squeeze in one more acupuncture session before the procedure. my favorite little nugget emily is going to bring josh up after work so we don't have two vehicles.  i imagine it should be a pretty good nights sleep considering it will be one of the few times in the past two years that i haven't had a 90 pound chocolate lab sleeping on top of me.

as far as results go, we will know before we leave he hospital on friday how many eggs we have.  brandi, my ivf coordinator, says to pray for eight and if we end up with ten or twelve great.  after we leave they will combine my eggs with josh's sperm an hope they make embryos.  they will call us first thing saturday morning and every morning thereafter leading up to implantatin with an embryo count.  we are hoping for four or more on saturday morning.  assuming there are embryos and at least one of them makes it, implantation will be next wednesday.  this is not a big procedure and is relatively painless.  i go in, they give me valium, implant the embryo or embryos and i am on my way.  the whole thing takes about 15 minutes.  then, eight excruciating days later we go in for the much anticipated blood test....omg this is really happening.

they said i will be in quite a bit of pain for the two, possibly three days following egg retrieval but i will try to post results as soon as i can.  if ever there was a time to remain calm and positive it is now....