Unexpected plans

I planned to trigger on Monday for my retrieval today. However, my E2 was over 14,000 and they were concerned about how painful it would be to ovulate. They decided to let me "coast" another day or so to see if the E2 would stabilize. I was disappointed but I had to do what they said. The nurse called me back and told me that Dr Dunn wanted to meet with me. I was pretty glad to hear that. When you are doing IVF, the only contact you have at the doctors office is the nurse and the ultrasound tech. Your doctor will review your chart regularly but you won't see him until the retrieval. I just knew that Dr Dunn wanted to meet with me to encourage me and let me know that everything was going to be fine.

I went in on Tuesday and waited almost 2 hours before he saw me. I was in really bad pain and the chairs in the waiting room just added to my discomfort. When we finally sat down to talk to he was concerned about the OHSS. He felt my belly and my hips to see how much swelling there was. He told me that they needed to wait for my E2 to level out before they would do the retrieval. He doubted it would be before Thursday. (He didn't know that I had been praying all night and all morning that God would control my E2 and make it exactly what it needed to be for retrieval). He also informed me that I would not be having a transfer right away. This was bad news to me. I have been giving myself three shots a day, taking two pills at night, going to the dr 3-4 times a week, including on the weekends, and I have been enduring all the pain from the enlarged ovaries and now he was telling me they wouldn't do the transfer next week.

He went on to tell me that they would freeze all my embryos and we would do the transfer in December, once my body returned to normal. He thinks it is too risky to do it now.

Yesterday evening I got a call from my nurse saying that the ER would be on Thursday (thanks for answering my prayer God!). So I took the trigger shot last night and now I wait. The ER is tomorrow at 10:30 am. I have decided to pray that my body would heal now so that the transfer could be next week. I am ok with it being in December if it has to be, but if I can heal now, why wait?

The success rate of a fresh cycle is better than a frozen cycle and that is my main concern. I don't want to take the chance of losing my best eggs in the freeze and thaw process. I've gone through too much already.

By Friday we will know how many eggs fertilized. I can't wait to get the results!!! I am going to ask Dr Dunn to reexamine me before he freezes the eggs to see if there is any chance of doing the transfer now. The eggs will be transfered to my uterus or frozen on Tuesday, Nov 13.

Tomorrow is a big day for me. Not only because I may feel some relief from the retrieval, but because tomorrow is the day my children will be conceived.

Lord - watch over my babies as they are conceived. I pray that the right sperm goes in the right egg and the children that you have planned for me are created perfectly in Your image.