Time to pull the trigger

I get two shots in the belly at 12:20 AM.  My actual retrieval is timed precisely to this on Friday exactly 36 hours later.  There's a window for delays and such at the Basking Ridge office but only by 2-3 hours.  Sounds like I'm near the end of the day.  Last retrieval is around 2 pm or so, Anne said.  If you stop to think about it, Ovidrel is kind of amazing since they can time ovulation almost down to the hour with it.

My stats for today look good.  E2 is at 2999 and progesterone is climbing slowly, which is key.  It needs to stay low for the next week.  I'm at 1.2 now and we don't want to see a spike until after I start the progesterone suppositories.  Mmmm.  Should be great fun.

4 left follicles less than 11 mm in size
1 left follicles between 11 to 13 mm in size
0 left follicles between 14 to 15 mm in size
0 left follicles between 16 to 17 mm in size
1 left follicles between 18 to 19 mm in size
1 left follicles greater than 19 mm in size

Haul for the left is only 2-3 which is still more than we thought we'd have!

3 right follicles less than 11 in size
3 right follicles between 11 to 13 mm in size
2 right follicles between 14 to 15 mm in size
1 right follicles between 16 to 17 mm in size
2 right follicles between 18 to 19 mm in size
1 right follicles greater than 19 mm in size

Those 11-13 mm follies will have the chance to reach 15-17 mm in two days so it's a good thing my retrieval isn't scheduled until the afternoon.  Gives them another few hours to grow grow grow.  If they all make it to size, we could have more than 10 follicles producing retrievable eggs.  Anne did warn us that typically up to half of all fertilized embryos arrest during development but even still, we could have 4 or even 5 blastocysts by next Thursday if all goes well.

We have one more round of morning monitoring tomorrow to check in with Dr. B.  With his seal of approval, I go home and wait it out.  Nothing to eat or drink after midnight tomorrow.  We report to the mysterious Fortress Ovum on the first floor of the Basking Ridge office at 10:00 AM.  A friend warned me that your man is whisked away to a backroom to do his thing while you sit paging through magazines, nervously waiting for a nurse to start your IV and the anesthesiologist to come talk to you.  Dr. Forman will speak to both of us before I'm taken in for the procedure and then it's showtime.  The whole thing takes 15-20 minutes but they keep you in recovery until you can pee and eat some crackers.  We'll know by about 2 pm Friday how many eggs they got. 

The suspense is terrible.  I hope it'll last.  (Willy Wonka quote?  No?)