DH and I arrived at 8:45am for my pickup at 9:30am. I was a little nervous but the staff in the OR were really friendly and nice to be around. Once I had my dressing gown on, we felt like we were in a receiving line of sorts...first came the nurse, then came the embryologist, then the anaesthetist, and finally, Dr Awesome. I can't begin to tell how how much his presence relaxes me, and after he shook my hand, he walked me to the theatre. There, in the centre of the room were the dreaded stirrups, oh the indignity! DH was seated next to me when the happy juice was injected, and off I went into the land of nod....
I awoke some time later (it seemed like hours but in actual fact in was on 20 minutes) and my sweet, smiling husband was looking at me....and what did I say?...
Me: "did you manage to um.....",
Him: "um...yes",
Me: "oh...good on you"
Me: "how many eggs did they get?"
Him & Nurse: "15....you know you've already asked us this 6 times!"
Me: "um.........ok"
The wonders of sedatives!
After I got fed some toast and juice, I got dressed and Dr Awesome popped in to say "You've done fantastic". I think he expected not to get that many eggs with my history of endo, as us gals can be poor responders. I felt like I was back in grade school getting a gold star ;-)
So off we went home...DH and I treated ourselves to a coffee on the way out, I had been off caffeine whilst stimming, and I suddenly felt like throwing one down the hatch....and it was great!!
Now came the wait to see how many of our eggs would make embryos, and we would find that out tomorrow. At least the difficult part of the stim cycle was over and done with, and we had some promising early results.
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