Deathly

Egg retrieval went well yesterday, although I have been asleep or throwing up ever since. It hurts to walk, sneeze, sit up and/or roll over.

Huh, I guess "well" is a relative term, isn't it?

This obviously will be brief since I feel ghastly but I was on my way to the kitchen for more Gatorade anyway and I thought I might as well check in with you.

28 eggs retrieved, which is a very nice haul indeed. They will call with the fertilization report and embryo update tomorrow and I'll put that up at REDBOOK. Oh, and I might not have read the last comments properly so perhaps you all know this, but you don't have to subscribe to anything to read the infertility stuff. Just click on the link on my sidebar and there it is. I apologize if that fact was not abundantly clear in the first place.   

Bleh. Getting nauseous again. Back to my bed. More tomorrow. Cross your fingers for me, please, that we get some nice embryos out of all this. Rah rah.

And I have more thoughts on the agressive kid, so don't let me forget, ok? Hope you are well.

Comments

[Holly]

You know that people around the world (including me, near DC) are praying that this turns out with a brand new, healthy Hippobaby in about 9 months.

Still praying....

[Aurelia]

Go back to bed and rest! You've done a lot for one day. I'm glad you got lots of eggs to try with, here's hoping they can find another Patrick in there somewhere. Or Patricia? :)

[Miz S]

God, it sounds hideous. I hope it doesn't last too long. And I hope this one is the charm.

[luolin]

Good luck. I hope you feel better soon.

[Jen]

Ooh, I'm sorry you feel so ghastly. 28 is a lovely number, though--hoping that many fertilize & you have the pick of many gorgeous embryos.

[Beth TigerMoon]

28 -- wonderful! Hoping for you!

[elaina]

Thanks for the quick update. Sorry you feel like shit. Good luck with this week!!!

[Amy]

So sorry for you being so sick and all. Hang in there, ok, and best wishes going forward with the cycle. Everything crossed and then some!

[Ali]

Fingers and toes crossed!!!! Excited for you.

[Heather Ann]

Sorry you are feeling so sick. I am waiting to hear how you took the daycare/preschool workers in a room and showed them your Kung Fu Fighting skills, leaving them all unconscious on the floor. Or Steve did that. Then you moved on to the mother. And accidentally dropped something from somewhere above her head that accidentally hit her. Hard. In the head. Accidentally. Or some other non-violent but equally effective solutions.

[Anjali]

Best, best, best of luck.

[Sara]

Sorry you're feeling so rotten. It stinks that you have to go through this. Still, 28 is a great haul! Good luck getting lots of perfect, healthy, chromosomally normal embryos.

[Heather]

Wow! That's a lotta eggs. Hope you feel better soon and have lots of luck this cycle.

[JuliaKB]

28 is a good number for me. I hope it turns out to be a good one for you too.
Sorry you feel so shitty.

[Wendy]

I am in awe of the IVF process and the brave women that have done it. That sure is a great haul indeed! Cannot wait to hear how how they progress and I will faithfully check in daily for updates.

I had my first IUI today and wow, the happiness that I felt laying in the stirrups thinking about the possibilites. If this does not work, my RE wants to move on to IVF ASAP. I am so terrifically glad that I found your blog. i feel empowered already!

[Emily Drew]

Thinking of you, dear.

[swissmiss]

28! Holy schmoly that's good. Here's hoping.

[Kelly]

*fingers firmly crossed*

[JennyK]

A good haul indeed. Sorry for the illness, but hopefully this too shall pass.

I'm looking forward to additional insight into the machinations of preschool social dynamics. Hoping to learn a thing or two that can help me deal with the "girl" version of the boy bully (meaning, MEAN GIRLS start at 3 1/2)

[LMM]

28 is terrific! Hope the funnel (how I think of the inevitable drop off as you move through the next steps) produces lots and lots of lovely embryos to choose from.

[SarahD]

Wow, 28! No wonder you feel run over! Hoping you're doing better today...

[tgsdmom]

Best of luck! Do you know that in math 28 is a "perfect number"? This means it is equal to the sum of its proper divisors. (I am not superstition about numbers. I just like them.) Let's hope this ends with a perfect result.

[Pam L]

It's truly amazing what we will do for kids, for having them, for keeping them safe and happy, amazing. I'm so sorry you feel so rotten. Hoping for your happy ending.

[Stacey]

I thought I was the only one who had such excruciating experiences after egg retrievals!!! My deepest sympathy! I used to take 2 Ambien and any pain medication I could get my hands on as I was driven home from the clinic! And that made it "borderline" tolerable!!

Here's hoping that Patrick's sibling is dividing as I type -- you and Steve are so deserving.

Good luck!! I'll be rooting for you!

[shannon]

Here's hoping for several nice "normal" embryos to transfer....

Please watch yourself for OHSS! :)

[BrendaS]

ACK! I remember what 28 eggs retrieved felt like. Not nice at all. drink drink drink. Watch for swelling and weight gain. It should be better by transfer.

[Slim]

Waiting for more on the aggressive kid and hoping to hear about some feisty, genetically normal embryos. (Cue "I Will Survive," sung in tiny little embryo voices.)

[Toni]

I too remember a high number...watch out for the dreaded OHSS...I didn't get it - but got some of the symptoms...not fun.

Read at REDBOOK (oops...almost put that in lowercase) - congrats on the good ones!

[Kim]

Ooh, Hippobaby. I like that nickname.

Here's hoping and keeping things crossed that lots of healthy embryos make it to transfer, and that one of them is healthy and sticks around.

[Matthew M. F. Miller]

Toni, I have to fervently disagree.

Don't read Redbook unless you want prospective Hippobaby to emerge from the womb with an innate need to please her/his man/woman and bake a cherry cobbler. Feminism has already fallen off the cliff, why exacerbate the situation?

For now, drown your sorrows in People magazine, daytime TV and don't come out until you know everything there is to know about something stupid – like Elizabeth Hasselbeck.

Hope you feel better soon!

[Amber]

why cant i find the "comments" section over at REDBOOK? am i doing something wrong? i swear I have left nice notes before...am I losing it?

can anyone help? please.

[ProfessorDog]

Best of luck, Julia!

[Cris]

Hi Amber - its not you. I can't view the comments on Redbook either. Not even after posting one.

All their money must be going to Julia for the fabulous writing and they have no money left for a professional IT department.

[Amber]

LOL. thanks Cris!!

[reenie]

Matthew, can we just read the section where Julia writes? Would that be okay? Or should she write for People magazine, too?

[reenie]

gah...my apologies for the above...I meant to sound tongue-in-cheek, but it doesn't look as though it came off that way.