The other day I said to a cycle buddy that if as far as I knew OHSS would show up within a few days of retrieval, if it was going to happen.

Oh so ironic.

No, I’m not in the hospital or at the doctor’s office or anything. I am just NOT comfortable. The past two days at work I have been walking very, very tenderly, a little hunched over, wincing whenever I jarred my stomach. SORE. Very very sore. Like a have two large, inflated balloons in there.

I scanned back through my notes from last cycle and this is apparently lasting a little longer than last time. In one way that’s surprizing, because, you know, the major overstim last time. But on the other hand it kind of makes sense, since last time he had me trigger with ovidrel, which has a much shorter half-life than the novarel I used this time.

I think I am feeling a little bit better… maybe this is on its way to being over with. Today is one week since transfer, so that timeline is pretty normal… if it goes away now.

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The good news is that I only have a week to wait.

The bad news is that I have a week to wait.

I have the urge to pee on something, even though there is NO way anything would show up right now. It’s just this itchy need in the back of my brain. Must. Pee. On. Stick.

I feel so good about this cycle – I mean, everything has gone so so well. But I’m still so scared… nothing is a guarantee.

There is apparently a pregnancy surge all over. This time I want to be a part of it.

Today I was feeling better, thank the light. Still very tender, but I wasn’t in pain. Though my coworkers did say I was quite pale today. But I got a good night’s sleep and was actually awake all day today… what a terrific idea. Too bad I’m not late shift more often.

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Tonight we went out for dinner. Den told me that they had ordered up a special dish of rack of lamb for the dinner, but he wasn’t so certain I would like that.

I said, “Probably not.” Then I thought, lamb. “Ummm, no. Definitely not.”

Den suddenly knew what I meant. “Oh. Oh. Yeah.” Silence. “I think we might be taking this symbolism a little too far.” Another pause. “But now that you said that, I don’t think I can have that, either.”

Next time we’re going to have to plan a little bit better when choosing an animal.