The hours were slowly passing with each toss and turn I made. The anticipation of the egg retrieval had completely taken over my mind. I decided to just get up and take a shower. My stomach was in knots as I was rushing around trying to get everything ready for my MIL to watch Bug. Hubs and I leave and start to make our way into Boston. When we stopped for gas I entered in the address that I found when I looked it up online on my phone. Something about it just didn't seem right, but it said the name of the hospital so I stopped over thinking it.
As soon as we get on the highway my insides start to freak the fuck out..........why didn't he listen to me when I told him there would be morning traffic!!!! Try to keep it bottled up as I don't want to argue on our way in. Hubs wasn't understanding why I was freaking out and I had to keep explaining that I needed to be there by a specific time - that if we were late I would be afraid they would say we couldn't do the retrieval.
Nav tells us to get off an exit and this is when I begin to let all my panic loose.
This isn't right - this is the wrong way - I should have just given directions myself as I know exactly where it is! We pull over and enter in the RIGHT address and off we go. Thankfully we weren't too far off to where we needed to be and made it just at the exact time we were told to be there by (well be there not later than this time). The nurse brings me back and said we'll move right along and get you right in. Being the first one in is nice - you don't have to sit and wait.
Get me geared up, bring hubs back to me for about 2 seconds before they are bringing into the retrieval room? Would we call it that? It's not an operating room per say....hmmm.....so they bring me in and one nurse is hovering over the right side of me and the asst. anesthesiologist is hovering over the right. Oxygen mask on and in comes the doctor. He asked everyone to pause for a moment and all I could think is, are we going to say a prayer right now??? Can I at least get my legs out of the stirrups first??? All he wanted me to do was confirm my full name, date of birth and why I was in there. Confirmed my name and date of birth, but when it came time to confirm why I was in there part of me wanted to say, I just want a really good nap ;) Knowing that wouldn't have been the smartest move, I answered properly. And off I went to la la land!
I remember coming to and saying I thought I was home. They giggled and told me that I was still at the hospital and the retrieval went very well, we got 9 eggs.
Come too a little more and see hubs sitting next to me playing on my phone and told him how I said I thought I was home when I woke up - he just laughed at me. The doctor comes over and told us everything went very well and we ended up with 10 eggs. WHAT?????? 10????????? We were pretty happy with that - the most we've ever gotten. The embryologist came over and confirmed we were still at 10 eggs and will call us tomorrow afternoon with the fertilization report.
One hurdle down.....three more to go - pray for great fertilization report......pray a good number make it to Day 5 for freeze.....pray we have at least one normal embryo for transfer after PGD.
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