Over Achiever

Yes that's right, I said it.  I am officially an over achiever!  I may have taken pride in thinking I was one before, and really, I do try to go above the average in whatever I do, but when your doctor says that you are an over achiever it has to be true! It was said in reference to how many eggs I had during the egg retrieval, 19!  What does that mean now?  Well, those 19 eggs had turning into 15 embryos (with the help of ICSI).  The doc froze 5 so that we have them on reserve and he is watching the other 10 to see how they develop.  He will pick the best two embryos and we will implant them after a five day culture. 

As for me...the surgery was not what I expected at all.  I think I was so worried about the anesthesia (because I have never gone under before) and I wasn't thinking about the part that they were cutting eggs out of me.  And since we had such a great number of eggs that just increases the pain.  I stayed at home with the hubby and he now thinks he is a doctor (he even put on the mask and everything when he has to give me my shot in my gluteus maximus).  On the second day I thought I would be able to go to work, but no such luck.  With the series of medication, that of course makes me soooo nauseous, and the pain I had to call on no other than my mama.  She was the nurse for the day and probably was a little better than Paul since she would watch chick flicks with me and not complain.  But day three was back to work, which probably is not the best idea but we have to get back to real life.  I would definitely suggest that anyone going through this just go ahead and take off the week.  I couldn't make it through a full day of work because of vomiting.  I headed home to rest and called the doctor.  He thinks because of producing so many eggs that I have ovary hyper stimulation.  What that means is that they may be too big and we may have to put of the embryo transfer.  We really don't want to put things off so we are hoping with a little rest we can go through with everything as planned.  But no matter what we go through it is amazing to see the light at the end of the tunnel and feel like we are getting so close to having a child.