1/15/11- ET day

The day after the retrieval, I received a phone call saying that out of the 12 eggs, only 5 were fertilized :( Since it was such a low %, they pretty much guaranteed I would have a 3 day transfer.  The only bright side? The 3dt would end up falling on a Saturday. Not only would that mean I wouldn't have to call out of work but it also made it so that I could take it easy the following day as well.


So, here we were on the 15th, laying in bed. At 9am I get the call that I would have to go into Boston for 1pm for my transfer. Time to start chugging water !

What a difference 3 days make ! You would never know we got over a foot of snow dumped on us just a couple of days before !

In order to go into the OR, he had to wear this funny outfit :).


Now, back to the water chugging. Everyone that knows me knows that I am physically unable to hold my bladder. It has always been very weak. It has been a running joke at how I know where every ladies room is located in the Magic Kingdom. Just trying to hold 16 oz of water is very painful yet here I am trying to hold more. I can't even breathe without practically peeing myself. Since the doctor is running behind schedule, they let me "let some out' ever so ofter. Ahhhh, that feels better.

When I am finally taken back to the OR, I feel like I am about to burst. However, when they check my bladder, it's not even half-way full. I try to explain how I have a weak bladder and thus cannot hold a lot but they don't care. So, they say they need to fill it. I thought that would mean that they would make me chug water but nope, out comes the catheter ! I could feel them filling my bladder and it was the.worst.pain ever ! Oh, at this point I am basically laying upside down. They have me on the table with my legs up and spread and then tilted the table so that my head is lower than the rest of me. So, there I was with my business all up in the air and on display and ready to pee all over them ( I actually warned them it may happen). They took their sweet old time inserting the embryos into the tube, putting them in me and then verifying they were in. I told them that my bladder was about to burst so they told me that as soon as they made sure the embies were in, I could pee. I warned them that I would 'take off running' as soon as they gave me the go-ahead. I did just that. The nurse was kind enough to make sure no one was in the bathroom and I literally ran out of the room and across the hall to pee. Ahhhh, such a great feeling !

Here are the pics of the embies they put back in :)

 

Ok, so I don't know how to rotate the pic yet but oh, well.

I was told that if any of the other 3 were still alive and kicking by Monday, they would freeze them for future use. Unfortunately, none made it :(. I not had to start my PIO injections each night (in the butt)