No More Stims! Retrieval on Monday!

This morning at 9 a.m., my husband and I went for our Stim Day 8 appointment. The follicles have all grown - the biggest one being at 20 while others are between 15-18. There are also some smaller ones. I can't remember how many there were in total. I was too anxious!

And when they took my blood this morning - they poked me 3 times before finding a vein that worked. When they tried once in the hand, I really felt like I was going to pass out - it hurt SOOOO bad and she kept moving it around. Thankfully, they were able to get enough blood from each of these 3 pokes. I have no idea what my E2 levels were today either since I had the clinic call my husband with the news and I forgot to tell him to ask them.

After the appointment, I raced over to Greenlake for my acupuncture appointment. We left the clinic at 10 - when my acupuncture appointment was. I let my acupuncturist know the prior day that I might be a little late, which she was fine with. I showed up there at 10:20.

After that appointment, we came home and I ate some lunch, then met some friends at the theatre to see The Prestige. The movie was alright, but I was a little distracted because someone had called me and I was afraid it was the clinic even though I told them to call my husband instead since I knew I'd be at the movie - it was my husband to let me know the news.

And the news...no more stims. Tonight at 7:45 exactly, we must do the HCG shot and retrieval will be on Monday morning at 6:45 a.m. (we need to check in at 6:20). I am actually a little nervous - how many eggs will they get? Will they fertilize? Will we make it to Day 5 for transfer? I really hope so.

Tonight (in an hour) we are going to a luau wedding reception of my husband's friend from high school who got married in Hawaii last month. I guess we won't be staying too long because we need to do the HCG shot tonight.

Well, that's my update! I hope and pray everything goes well for us.