This week, I had to go in for an ultrasound and blood draw three days in a row. The follicles were responding much better to the 300 IU dosage, but they just weren’t hitting the optimal sizes. So I actually ended up making yet another refill trip out to Encino to pick up one more night’s worth of injections.
Last night, Jin and I administered the last of our daily injections, and then, we prayed.
Please, please, please let this work.
Please let this be the first and last round of IVF for us to have a baby.
This morning, I went in for my third ultrasound, and my doctor was VERY happy with the results. By now, I’ve been to enough ultrasounds to know what follicles look like on the screen, and even to my untrained eyes, those babies looked HUGE. The smallest measured in at about 8 mm x 7 mm, and the largest one measured about 27 mm x 25 mm.
No wonder I felt bloated and gross.
Tonight, I will give myself the trigger shot, then on Friday morning, we will head in to the reproductive center where my doctor will meet us to perform the retrieval. She counted and measured 17 follicles today, and she said we’re looking at about 12-15 of them producing an egg.
And then, fertilization, growth, testing, and implantation will happen based on a rather tight and rigid schedule.
Tick-tock.
Tick-tock.