Day 6: Legal Swiss

Starbux was the aroma of the morning as day 6 of our trip began. Once again successful at the sleep preservation methods, our appointment was even later than the last: 1115 this morning. It was yet another great checkup, this time having follicles both of legal drinking and legal driving (separate, of course!!) sizes....the leader of the pack is at 22mm, with a total of 5 over 18mm. Our baby swiss is indeed aging nicely and we await a call later this evening that will likely be the one to confirm that we are triggering late tonight or early tomorrow morning. We had a candid chat with Tina, on the of nurses, to review the procedures for the next couple of days. The good news about trigger is that it drops Gena's shots from three per day to just one.

The call came in just after 5pm today with confirmation of trigger....which is a day earlier than we did at Walter Reed and good news to us....the "ooof" part of the news is that we have to give the shot at exactly 0230 in the morning tomorrow (Sunday morning)....that doesn't help the sleep schedule very much, but it's a necessary sacrifice, of course. So we'll burn the midnight oil and ensure we are on time for the injection. That means will have the rest of the day Sunday off and go back in to the clinic on Monday afternoon at 1300 for a 1430 retrieval surgery. Then we'll just wait and see how many they get, how many are successfully fertilized, and how they end up growing. Things are progressing well, and we've hoped and prayed they would. It'll be a late night, but it's the start of the next mini-phase for this cycle.