Countdown to retrieval

The doctor bumped up my retrieval from Thursday or Friday to Wednesday! I had planned out my next two weeks of work to coincide exactly with what days and times I would have appointments. I had to rearrange all my shifts bright and early this morning.

Oh well, the eggs do what the eggs want. If the eggs want to be retrieved on Wednesday, then that is what the eggs get. My husband has taken to calling me “mi galina,” which means “my hen,” after I explained to him what I meant when I said that it was hard work incubating all these eggs.

My mom gave me my HCG trigger shot this evening. My bum is a little sore, but the shot didn’t hurt nearly as much as I thought it would. I am fairly certain that was at least in part due to my mom’s superior nursing skills. She has agreed to give me the progesterone shots for the next week and a half. I have to take them Wednesday night on up until my pregnancy test the week after implantation. I am really not looking forward to that.

This is actually happening! Less than 36 hours until I lay my eggs.