{"id":663,"date":"2007-05-22T04:05:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T08:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/ttc\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-05-22T04:09:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T08:09:28","slug":"triggers-and-ultrasound-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Triggers and Ultrasound Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my call yesterday while at work. My E2 yesterday was 5521 and I&#8217;m scheduled for retrieval at 8:30am on Wednesday. I&#8217;ve made arrangements at work to go in today and have thursday off (and I usually have wednesday off) just in case I need that time to recouperate. I probably will be fine on thursday, but an extra day can&#8217;t hurt. (It seriously is fabulous having a supervisor who is completely up-to-date on everything. It saves a lot of explaining when I need a day off!)<\/p>\n<p>My trigger shot was at 8:30pm last night. In some kind of fitting irony, it bled afterwards and is bruising&#8230; and it perfectly matches the still-fading bruise from my first stims shot. It&#8217;s even in the identical spot on the opposite side of my belly.<\/p>\n<p>No more shots!! Can you believe that? I can&#8217;t. I think I&#8217;ll miss getting everything together every PM and mixing it all together. It really helped me feel productive. After the retrieval I move on to estrogen patches and progesterone suppositories. Mmmm, fun.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here&#8217;s the ultrasound of my ovary. Remember that this is just a cross-section of one ovary! All those little black spots are follicles. It&#8217;s really neat to see her wand over the ovary and have all these black spots come in and out of view. (click for bigger version)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v240\/lunarmagic\/TTC\/ivf1-follicles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v240\/lunarmagic\/TTC\/ivf1-follicles-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ultrasound\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also forgot to write that the U\/S tech was talking to apparently a student U\/S tech who was in the room with us. And she was saying how it&#8217;s good that my ovaries are long, because if they bloat up sideways it&#8217;s a bad risk sign. So apparently long and lean is the name of the game. (They look funny to me.)<\/p>\n<p>And they (nurse and U\/S tech) kept saying that I have a nice long torso, which is helping me out and is probably why I&#8217;m not feeling a lot. Because I&#8217;m not&#8230; every once in a while I get an ache, usually from my left ovary, but other than that I&#8217;m feeling remarkably little.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but&#8230; my boobs hurt. A lot. They&#8217;ve been <i>tender<\/i> for a few days&#8230; but this past day they have definitely gotten worse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my call yesterday while at work. My E2 yesterday was 5521 and I&#8217;m scheduled for retrieval at 8:30am on Wednesday. I&#8217;ve made arrangements at work to go in today and have thursday off (and I usually have wednesday off) just in case I need that time to recouperate. I probably will be fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ivf1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}