…and then the bird crapped in my hair

This morning, I took the ferry and then a cab to the clinic where my retrieval was scheduled. A $5 ferry ride and a $20 cab ride that took as long or longer than a train and walking, combined, would have taken me, but on a retrieval morning I leave nothing to chance. I don’t [...]

Posted on | September 1, 2011

Retrieval Day

Imagine if you will, laying on an OR table, 2nd IV placed, patient draped, legs in stirrups. It’s 9:55AM. But retrieval was scheduled for 9:30AM. The doctor is no where to be seen. Where is she? I’m told she was pulled over for speeding to the office and is talking her way out of a [...]

Posted on | November 5, 2010

Lonliness in the Clinic on Retrieval Day

If you’ve been following me, you know that the worst part of IVF for me isn’t the 2WW. It’s retrieval day. I’m usually in pain and I’m freaking out about getting to the clinic on time. Although it generally takes me 45 minutes to get from my front door to the clinic on a weekday, [...]

Posted on | May 16, 2010

Aching OvariesDay Before Retrieval

I triggered last night at 10:30PM, on the nose. Dr. Indian’s office prefers a trigger to the hip (my least favorite shot to do to myself) which didn’t make me at all happy. This morning my ovaries are hurting like m*ther f*ckers. OMG. I have six on the left and none on the right, but [...]

Posted on | May 15, 2010

Transfer Day: The Ever Changing Follicle Count

About a week ago, Dr. Italian said that he saw 6 or 7 follicles. Two days ago at my U/S: 4. This morning on the table before my IV sedation cocktail: 5 When I woke up: 6 Of the 6 that he found while I was out, 5 were large enough to have follicles. Of [...]

Posted on | March 19, 2010

Night Before Retrieval, Take 7

I don’t know what possessed me to accept a meeting invite for 9am tomorrow. My meeting is slated to go from 9 to 9:30 and I have to be at the clinic at 10:30. I think I’ll take the call while I am on foot to the train and then leave the meeting a hair [...]

Posted on | March 19, 2010

2 Outta 2 Ain’t Bad

2 follicles and 1 cyst yielded 2 eggs. So I am hopeful. 100% retrieval and fertilization rates are more the thing I am used to. I hope these little guys are normal and fertilize. Grow! Grow! Grow! [Note: Dr. Italian sent me an email a few hours after this post to tell me that both [...]

Posted on | February 17, 2010

Crash and BurnWith Added Paranormal Kids Flava?

Retrieval was today. 4 follicles. 1 immature follicle retrieved. I have nothing. NOTHING! Nothing to fertilize. How can this be? I had a 18mm follicle two days ago. There is nothing about that follicle that could remotely be considered “immature”. How could this cycle have gone so wrong? I just don’t understand it. The only [...]

Posted on | December 12, 2009

Egg Retrieval Day

Today was our egg retrieval day. I barely slept all night…awoke at 5am to whatever it is that lives in our attic and layed in bed imagining how many rat traps I’d have to put up there to kill the blessed thing that dared to disturb my sleep night after night. One of the reasons [...]

Posted on | February 3, 2006