Retrieval, Recovery and RESULTS!

What a whirlwind these past two weeks have been! Saturday I was a nervous wreck! Not to mention I had lower abdominal pain (to be expected) from my swollen ovaries and I just was not pleasant to be around. Thankfully my sister and husband are patient with me! Sunday morning was even worse! I felt like an elephant was sitting on my uterus! We head to NRM and as usual we are greeted with the finest people in reproductive medicine (in our opinion)! I go back to pre-op, change into my sexy gown; the socks they give you are awesome by the way!!! Jay has extreme ADD and was driving me nuts fidgeting lol! Anyhow, Susie Obrien works there as an embryologist… I have known her all my life as I was best friends with her niece. To say it was such a relief knowing the fate of our future child was in her loving hands is an understatement. I was holding it together emotionally until she came out to wish us good luck and said she had been emotional all morning. YUP then I lost it. I was just a hot mess! So we walk to the operating room and that’s about all I remember… I was OUT! Came out after what felt like 5 minutes and Jay said I was a hot mess again lol! Then the words “you had 17 eggs” were music to our ears. We were ecstatic!!!! Especially since I was having horror thoughts the night before! OMG this was the best news we have had in a while!!! They send us home after I eat a little something, drink and pee! First stop… DUNKS of course!!! Hubby brought me home and tucked me in and there I layed the rest of the day! Now we were waiting for the call to see how many were fertilized (his sperm injected and received by an egg). Ready for it??!!!................. Of the 17 eggs, 12 were mature and injected and of those 9 were FERTILIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No words to describe how happy this news made us!! If I could have jumped I would have but instead I just shared my news and cried and cried and cried tears of happiness!!! We are day 2 after retrieval and the fertilized eggs will continue to grow for 5 days total before they are froze. Fingers crossed most continue to split until day 5! Thank you all for the texts, calls, messages, etc. You don’t know how much your support means to us!!