I actually feel better today than I did yesterday. I slept just fine last night (whereas the night before I was tossing and turning quite a bit due to the pressure every time I tried rolling onto my stomach – which is usually quite frequent).<\/p>\n
It felt so monumental to be sitting there with my ovidrel tonight. I stared at the clear liquid contained within the syringe, wondering how such a small amount of something can be so hugely pivotal for so many things. Is the timing going to be the key? Is using the ovidrel rather than the hcg going to prevent OHSS for me? Such a big moment, but such a non-moment – it felt like any other daily injection, yet it wasn’t. We both stared at my belly for a moment afterwards. “So that’s it, huh?” I lay here, concious of – yet seemingly unconnected to – the processes that have been started within me.<\/p>\n
We’re committed now. I know things can change, and change drastically in a short period of time, but once I got the go-ahead for the trigger shot the retrieval was set in stone. Tomorrow should be an easier day for me to get through than the last two, simply because I have a timeline now, I know what the next step is. It’s a relief.<\/p>\n
Like KC reminded me, this whole cycle has been one huge hurdle after another: the insurance approval, the tight timing, and then overstimming and just trying to get to retrieval. The next big hurdle is THE big one: egg maturity and fertilization. The one I’m most worried about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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