A Brand New Day

As you can all about imagine, I did not sleep very well last night.

When our alarm finally went off this morning, I had just finally fallen back to sleep...go figure!

So I laid there until J was all done getting ready for work and finally decided it was my turn to face the day.  While I was anxious to get to my doctors appointment, I was also very nervous for what she may say.

I arrived at my appointment and was soon led to a room way in the back of the office. 

Ugh! This can't be good.

I was then told that my doctor was going to be doing my scan herself.

Oh, thank heavens.

When she walked into the room she kindly said, "I read the report from yesterday, but let's not say anything until after I get a look at what's going on with your ovaries."

Sounds good to me.

I lay there in silence as she thoroughly looked upon the screen,
rhythmically tapping at buttons.

Having a background in medicine, I could get a good idea of what I was
seeing on ultrasound images up on the screen. 

But I had lost track of how many follicles she was measuring.

Then the button clicking stopped and she looked at me, smiled and said,

"Are you ready?"

Ummmm...yes, but no.

She started counting out loud as she scrolled through the follicles she had just measured.

When she got to the finally number, I started crying and wanted to jump up and hug her.

That magic number that was music to my ears was 7-8 "good sized" follicles.

<<BIGGEST EXHALE IN THE HISTORY OF MAN>>

**pic below is a list of all the follicles with their average sizes circles**

While of course this is better then the news I got yesterday from the oncall RE,

I discussed with her what happened with this cycle

and what we would do differently if we have to do a second IVF cycle.

I discussed with her our "Plan B" option, and was happy to hear that

she completely agreed with our plan.

Having this backup plan takes the pressure off whatever happens come

egg retrieval time.

And when will that be, you may ask?

Well, I got a call about 2 hrs ago from my nurse coordinator

who told me my estrogen level this morning was 700, but should be well over

1000 come retrieval time...

....which will be Wednesday morning at 10:15am.

 I give myself a trigger shot tonight (10,000u of hCG) at exactly 10:15pm.

This is essentially the equivalent to hitting the GO button.

Retrieval needs to be exactly 36 hrs later, if it's delayed even an hour or two

I would ovulate on my own and all of the follicles would be

empty and no eggs would be retrieved.

Crazy, huh?!

While I am ready for retrieval, I also wish I could hold on to my little eggs

for another day to make sure they ready to go make Baby Vincent.  :)