6/10/2017 0 Comments Good News from Syracuse!I don’t even know how long it’s been since my last blog! It seems like FOREVER. I’m pretty sure I’ve been in a fugue state the last week or so just trying to get to today. My husband left for Switzerland last week and won’t be back until August 15th. This past week has gone by so, unbelievably slowly!
Our donor had her egg retrieval yesterday. The way the egg donor program works at CNY is that you get six eggs. It’s really not a whole lot to work with, but it’s so much cheaper than most other programs. Plus, I like that you are guaranteed six eggs. If you get a donor that has an off month or doesn’t respond for some reason and you don’t get many eggs, that would be unbearable at the normal price tag of $30,000+. So, I got word that we did get our six eggs out yesterday. Last night, I was a bit of a wreck. I kept thinking it wouldn’t be totally unheard of for none of the eggs to fertilize. Typically, you can expect that 70% of the eggs fertilize. Then about 30-50% of those will actually make it to freeze. I’m pretty sure I mentally walked through all scenarios last night. I woke up so early this morning to make sure that I didn’t miss the call from the doctor’s office. I was SO nervous! I reached out to my support group and it seemed most people had got their calls around noon-ish. So, I turned on the new season of Orange is the New Black and settled into the couch to try and pass time to wait for my call. Surprisingly, at 8:30 I got a call from them. I was so nervous. My heart was racing. What if she had terrible news to deliver? What if she had great news to deliver? I tried figuring out how her voice sounded. Did she sound like she was about to give bad news? Or good news? I really couldn’t tell. I felt like it was taking forever for her to tell me how many eggs fertilized. She introduced herself. Asked if it was a good time to talk. COME ON ALREADY AND TELL ME. Then she confirmed that we were doing a freeze all. FINALLY. She said ALL SIX of our eggs were fertilized!!!!! This is literally the best outcome we could’ve asked for. I was getting so nervous that we used frozen sperm. I kept thinking maybe we shouldn’t have mailed the sperm in. Maybe we should’ve used fresh sperm. But it didn’t seem to matter because all six of our eggs have been fertilized. This is literally the best news we’ve had on our entire journey. I’m really, really hoping for 3 embryos to freeze. Four would be incredible. I’m feeling really optimistic that we will have at least two. They told me they won’t call me for a 3 day update, but I am welcome to call and ask for one. Then, on Wednesday or Thursday they will freeze the embryos – depending on how they look. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around how I’m going to keep track of all the transfer medications. I have no clue how I’m going to physically or mentally get over the hurdle of giving myself PIO shots. That is going to be awful. I hope that I can figure out how to do it with minimal pain. So now, we are waiting again. This process involves so much waiting. It’s unbearable. I really, really hope that we get good news on Monday and, most importantly, on freeze day! Until then, I’ll be watching a disgusting amount of TV. Orange is the New Black had a very fitting quote for today: “We are so fucking resilient even when we don’t want to be.” – Judy King.
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