This is the post I should have written after transfer so apologies for the delay. That's what 5 mg of Valium will do to you, I guess...but it was so nice to sleep most of Saturday.
Here's how it went down during the FET:
1. Over the mountains and into the snow to arrive at fortress ovum at 12:10 pm
2. Instructed to empty my bladder, then immediately handed a 10 oz cup of water and told to drink
3. 5 minutes later, ushered into the super secret "transfer room" in the back. There are maybe 8 of them next to the retrieval OR and the lights are turned way down low (how romantical!)
4. Light FM Piano music is playing from a box in the corner - me? I prefer spa chimes but what can you do?
5. Wow, this must be where they actually do the deed. They practically force you to RELAX by being super sweet and accommodating with their little yellow pill and warm blanket.
6. Ultrasound time to check my bladder. It's too full for comfort so sent to pee in cup halfway to release some pressure. Ahhhhh.
7. Left alone for 30 minutes to laugh at stupid animal videos online (because laughter helps relax the uterus. this is true.)
8. Around 1:25, in wheels the traveling circus of ultrasound nurse, Dr. Kim, and the embryologist with the incubator. They came whooshing through the door and meant business. I'm instructed to lie down, reclined automatically by some magic button on the floor, then my vagina gets a spotlight and my cervix is "cleaned." I asked Rhett what that looked like and he said like saline solution being shot out of a syringe. Didn't feel a thing (thank you, Valium) so I began to relax. Some arbitrary words of "release the tension in your legs, breathe in deeply, exhale" were uttered. Gee, thanks, doc. We are told to watch the screen above the incubator just in time to see two little dots sucked up into a pipette. Dr. Kim is handed the pipette and though I can't see what's happening below, I look on the ultrasound to see the catheter go up into my uterus and watch as our two frosties are places in the upper left side of my uterus right where the opening to the fallopian tube would be. He tucks them in and that's that.
9. "Good luck" is uttered from the trio as the circus rolls out of town. Nurse Sandy comes back in, puts the stirrups away and pulls out a shelf to rest my legs on as I recline for 30 minutes and stay warm.
10. We kind of look at each other like, "Did you see them? I saw them!" and then exhaustion takes over because transfer is complete and took all of 5 minutes for a 7 month build-up. That's all? Are you sure they went in? Well, yeah, I saw them.
11. Discharged to continue meds as prescribed until progesterone check on Monday morning. Stop off at Panera for lunch because nothing says comfort like a warm bowl of french onion soup.
12. Pass out for 2.5 hours at home, get up, move to couch, watch "Lilo and Stitch," then move back to bed. zzzzzz.
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