The follicles are almost there. Per our ultrasound today, I say our, as Bill went with me and got to see the ultrasound the follicles. We learned this afternoon (Bill took the call... and was just like a kid with a whole jar of cookies waiting for him) that we have completed the stimulation drugs. Tonight at midnight, I know we should be sleeping Bill will give me my "Trigger Shot". It is done 35 hours prior to egg retrieval. Note this is egg retrieval, not follicle retrieval. On Tuesday morning we will go at 10:00 am prep for for 11:00 am surgery. Using Ultrasound as a guide they will insert a needle through the vaginal wall directly into each ovary. They will suck the egg and it's fluid contents out, one by one. The follicles will remain as sist. They say that often the ovaries following this process may get encouraged again, upon pregnancy, so my low key activities should stay in place to avoid ovary twisting.
I will be under a general IV anesthesia. I will wake up, and probably babble about silly stuff I am told. Then I will come home and take it easy. They say people can go back to work after the procedure...but I think they are "high" and besides I don't have a job.
Same day they will do ICSI the fancy fertilization we are doing, where one of Bills individual sperm will be injected into each egg. We'll get a report the next day, as to the cell division of our embryos. The Embryo's will come back to base camp between Friday and Sunday. Lot's of info here and I am sure I will duplicate some of it in the next few days.
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