Day 22 AKA Trigger Day

My assigned doctor was there at this morning's check.  It had been a female doctor the past several times I went in (she was great too).  It was good to see my regular doctor as he was really happy with my progress, but the ultrasound was painful today!  He said it was probably because I don't have very much room since more follicles are responding now!  I was super happy to hear that and it diminished the discomfort I'm feeling of sharp pains and all-over bloat.  I seriously am so uncomfortable.  It's understandable though since all 36 are between 15-20 mm.  There are 16 on the left and 20 on the right!  That is more than double what I had on Friday!

These 4 photos show one section of my follicles over the past 11 days.  Do you see how huge they are now?  Look at all those potential eggs!  I can't wait to find out the final count once they're out on Wednesday.

Injecting my final Follistim shot this morning!  Do you see the bruise in the background?  Hopefully those are a thing of the past!  

Trigger shot and directions!  I got called after lunch this afternoon and was told a lot of information about the next few days.  Luckily, I can write fast!

The trigger shot has to happen exactly 34.5 hours before retrieval.  That meant injecting it at 11 PM tonight.  Thankfully, I watched Bachelor with girlfriends and that kept me up late.  Seth is working (but decided to work from home after 9:30) so he was able to inject it for me.  He wanted to be precise so we used a sharpie to draw on my tooshie where he was going to inject it.  I would share the picture but that would mean mooning you all.  The shot was not that painful going in, but my toosh is sore now (it's actually more to the side/hip part).  I'll take that over Menopur any day though!

We are almost done with the first part of the process!  Hopefully we create lots of healthy embryos on Wednesday!  I'll find out the exact number of eggs before we leave and then they'll update me every couple days on how our embryos are doing.  We have at least 6 + more weeks before an embryo will get transferred in so we're not done with this blog or process yet!