Today Myrna, Robert's mom, took us to HFI to have our sperm and eggs retrieved. Robert went first. He was amazingly calm and Dr. Ho made us feel good about the whole procedure. The entire biopsy took only about 25 minutes. Myrna and I got to go see Rob in the recovery room to find him entertaining the nurse. He was quite funny while drugged! He had us all laughing. He doesn't remember any of it...
Dr. Ho came in and said Rob has beautiful swimmers. :) He told us that he has no doubt that we will soon be proud parents.
I was up next! There were a few small bumps in the road for me...It took three nurses two tries each to get the IV in my arm. The first nurse tried on my left hand and couldn't get it to thread into my vein. After she gave up, a second nurse gave it a go...she got it in on the first try to watch the blood vessel balloon very quickly, she says she hit a valve. Finally she got it in to my left forearm and things seemed good to go...I say seemed...because evidently, the anesthesiologist, didn't agree with where it was put or how it looked...So after they wheeled me into the O.R. she tried herself...Well, she and the O.R. nurse...I was being pricked in both arms at the same time! The anesthesiologist finally struck gold and got the IV threaded into my right arm. I was out within a few seconds of receiving whatever wonderful drug they gave me and woke up in the recovery room with Rob and Myrna sitting next to me. Dr. Haddad was proud to announce to us that he retrieved an amazing 20 eggs!!!
The hard parts were over! Now we'd have to wait a few days for Dr. Gill to fertilize my eggs with Robert's sperm so that we could come back for the embryo transfer.
Oh, and the bruising on my arms...awful! I think it looks like I got beat up. It's a good thing that I don't plan to go anywhere anytime soon, as people might think my husband beats me or something!
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