Showing posts with label Roy Rogers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roy Rogers. Show all posts

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Day 11: Trigger Day

Almost all good news today! My ovaries are humming. A solid handful of follicles popped up overnight. We're now hoping for 10-12 total, much better than I'd feared.

Other good things: my birthday is on Wednesday, and today I went on a shopping spree and snagged the Wii Fit I'd been wanting, as well as a pile of Nintendo DS games. These should keep me out of trouble during any OHSS-related confinement. Which brings me to the only not-perfect thing, which is that my doctor wrote Get your electrolyte and protein drinks ready! on the bottom of my instruction sheet. Underlined. I take it to mean that he expects me to get OHSS again.

Well, we're reasonably prepared, and even if I do get it I expect the whole thing will be less traumatic second time around -- I'll be uncomfortable, but at least I won't be scared.


Oh! And when we were wandering around the mall, I saw this sculpture in the Pottery Barn window and was immediately drawn to it. I wasn't sure why -- according to the label it's a reindeer, and I don't celebrate Christmas and in fact have a slight Jewish-girl jealousy/aversion to Christmasphenalia. And the percentage of times when I walk by a store window, see something, and then go in and buy the thing in the window at full retail approaches zero.

But, as I was looking through the window, my darling reasonably suggested that this sculpture is in fact quite evocative of the Celtic stag-god Herne/Cernunnos. He's a powerful male fertility aspect. I bought the large one, with the leaves blooming from his antlers, and he's making me very happy. My eyes like looking at him, even though he's taking up half of the bedroom vanity.

I intend to hang necklaces on him eventually, but have been warned not to do so until I'm already pregnant, so as not to feminize the powerful male fertility aspect by making him look like a pretty pretty princess.


Update: I have triggered! I am now a ticking time bomb of superovulation! Whee!

Monday, March 31, 2008

Day 11: Trigger Day

That's right, girls and... er... girls! You read the title correctly. No, I am not hosting a photo exhibition honoring Roy Rogers' horse. I am triggering tonight, because my E2 was 4356 as of ass o'clock this morning.

4356, what can I say? I can say that
  1. It's above some clinics' cutoffs for retrieval/transfer, but below others'. A lot of clinics use 3500 as the cut-off, but others use 5000.
  2. It's much much much better than I had feared. See, I was getting what I believe is called a geometric progression -- doubled between days 5 and 7, almost tripled between 7 and 9... the fact that it only went up to 4400 between days 9 and 11 is marvelous.
  3. It still puts me at risk of OHSS, but whatever, right? People say it's unpleasant, but it's not fatal. And you know what else would be unpleasant? Doing this whole damn thing again if I don't have to. I'll take my chances, spike the retrieval IV with albumin, and hope for the best.
  4. It's a very cool number because if you transpose the first two digits it's 3456, a numerical keymash.
Once again my prodigious powers of worrying have, by the force of my mind, managed to avert disaster.

Retrieval is scheduled for 8 am Wednesday. Have to be there at 6:30. Without having had coffee. HAHAHAH. Still not sure how we're going to get there -- cab, I guess. My darling doesn't drive and I'll be in no shape to be driving home afterwards

EE EE EEE! Excited! Happy! Mood swingy! I LOVE ALL OF YOU -- YES, YOU OVER THERE, ESPECIALLY YOU.