This may be TMI....

It's personal information but I want to share. It may be too much but I want to remember all of it, exactly as it happened. 

So up until Wednesday Dec. 9th  I was doing two injections a night. On Thursday, no injections!! Friday morning Matt and I woke up early, stopped by school to get some PTO paperwork since I would have to miss the PTO league basketball game that night (major bummer) and headed to Louisville Reproductive Center. We arrived early enough that the office was still locked because someone was running late- an interesting start combined with my super full ovaries. It was uncomfortable to sit and wait, that's how swollen my ovaries were. 

We got in and got comfortable. I was able to get in the bed within minutes! Here's the inspiring quote on the wall in the changing room! 

As soon as I was hooked up to the anesthesia, I was out! When I woke up I was very interested in talking about U of L basketball...? "They recently played Grand Canyon University. They were antelopes, and we scored 111 points. Levitch and Stockman got to play. Onuaku shoots his free throws granny-style, but he doesn't always make them." 

I think that would be the BEST part of being a doctor aside from saving lives. Getting to see people wake up and act goofy would be priceless! 

When I was a little more "with it" and Matt came back to see me the doctor updated me on our numbers. They had retrieved 24 eggs from me and 57 million from Matt. Yea, yea, Matt did an excellent job. ;) 

The procedure started at 9:00 and I was walking out at 12:30. Matt did have to go back to Louisville to pick up the prescriptions the nurse forgot to send with us. 

I went home and slept off the anesthesia, updated anyone who wanted to know, replied to messages from my guest teacher, I even rode to Walgreens with Matt (and regretted every second) and then ate dinner.... And promptly got sick. So I showered and went back to bed. I woke up feeling fine, just a little sore. 

Out of my 24, 20 were mature eggs. On Saturday my amazing doctor called me to update me on the status of my eggs. 

Out of the 20, 6 were used for conventional IVF, meaning they let the sperm go for it. The eggs were available and the sperm were allowed to figure it out on their own. Only 3 of those eggs fertilized. This is helpful information to me because it provides some reasoning for why it wasn't working for us even when we forced ovulation and provided supplements for the eggs. 

With 14 eggs left, my doctor used another method of injecting certain sperm into the egg. Intra- cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). All of those 14 eggs fertilized. 

So right now, we have 17 fertilized eggs in the lab. The doctor was very clear that there will be a drop off and she will be in contact with us every day up until the transfer on Wednesday. 

So for now, I'll keep up with my medication schedule and start the once a night, progesterone injections to prepare my body for pregnancy!!! 

Huge thanks to everyone checking on me, thinking & praying for me, filling in at the basketball game and being awesome. 

I have the BEST people in my life. It means everything to me! <3 #ThinkPositive #TeamBratcher