January
24, 2013
Today
is the day…Yay and Ahhhh!!
After all the poking, prodding, driving
hundreds of miles, spending thousands of dollars, medications, injections,
painful draining of a cyst, intra-vaginal ultrasounds, ovarian hyper
stimulation syndrome, gaining 20 pounds, having to wear maternity clothes, overcome with emotions, and feeling completely miserable, its finally time to get
all these follicles (eggs) out of me….Yay!!! Jay, also had his first and only appointment
today (he gets off way to easy if you ask me…grr). He has his FDA exam and it's
finally his time to shine…. in a CUP….Hahaha.
Jay’s
appointment was at 10:00am. My apt was at10:30am, with the surgery scheduled
for 11:00am on the dot. We could not find a babysitter so we made it a family
affair and had to bring the kiddos along.
When
we started out on our trek to Pleasant Grove, it was freezing rain/a blizzard outside
and the freeway was a parking lot. On the radio it said to plan on one to two
hour delay to get anywhere.
Don’t
panic, don’t panic, I kept telling myself, but that was no use. I was freaking
out!! I had taken my trigger shot at 11:00pm on Wednesday night and the surgery
had to be exactly 36 hours later. Which meant we had to be there by 11:00am.
No! No! No! All this preparing that we had done all month was going to go to
pot because we were in a freaking blizzard. Why didn’t we get a hotel in Pleasant Grove the night before surgery you ask? Because we suck…ahhh!!!!
We
left at 9:00am and it took one hour just to go from Bountiful to South Salt
Lake. Thankfully, after we passed Salt Lake, it was still a blizzard, but it
wasn’t bumper to bumper traffic. We thankfully arrived safely at the Utah
Fertility Clinic at 10:35am…. whew!!!
Jay went back first. "Good luck buttercup", as I said smirkingly to Jay on his way to his exam. Then the anesthesiologist (Steve) took me back. I was so scared and shaking. He asked me
if I had any concerns. Yes, I said, I don’t want to wake up in surgery but I
want to wake up after it’s done. Oh, and one more thing…. I don’t want to
DIE!! He assured me that this was
nothing like all of those emergency surgeries that I had back in 2010 and that
I would be fine. Easy for him to say, he didn’t die. The anesthesiologist gave
me medicine to calm me down but of coarse that didn’t work. He started the IV
and Dr. Foulk and the nurses came in to start the procedure. The next thing I
remember was waking up after surgery in excruciating pain. Of, coarse I thought
I was bleeding out again and I was surely going to die. Jay was able to come
back. "Am I going to die", I asked him? "No, you’re not going to die", he reassured
me. I said, "please, please, get me out of pain"! I was in so much pain I could
barely talk. The anesthesiologist came in and gave me some pain medicine in my
IV. It took the edge off but I was still in pain! I wanted my dad. Why you
might ask?? Because he is a pain management doctor and if you are in pain he
will do everything he can to get you out of pain. Oh, how I wish he were at the
clinic. I would do anything for an Actiq (which is an immediate release pain
med).
The
Doctor came in and said everything went really well. They were able to retrieve
58! , Yes that’s right, 58 follicles (eggs)! Holy moly, no wonder I was
miserable, gained 20 pounds and had to wear maternity clothes. The Doctor gave
me some pain meds and we left the clinic. The whole way home I was still in
pain and bleeding quite a bit. Finally, two hours after the surgery I could
take a deep breath and not be in so much pain.
Although,
this month has been crazy, stressful and painful I would do it all again if it
meant that we could have a baby.
Next
step……implanting Kim with our embryo…..eeeeeee!!!!!
Here
are some pictures of me the day of egg retrieval
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