Saturday’s Appointment
April 27, 2008
I was fortunate enough to go with Kyla to her appointment on Saturday for another ultrasound and round of blood work. The picture you see is of 3 follicles that are in one of Kyla’s ovaries. Could one or more of these turn out to be a baby? I guess only God knows…and time will tell.
Dr. Potter continues to be impressed with how Kyla is responding to the drugs and we are scheduled for her egg retrieval on Tuesday. At this time, there seems to be at least 14 follicles that have grown to the expected size, which they will pull out on Tuesday and evaluate their quality. We are hopeful that quite a few of them will be high enough quality to create embryos. Any that aren’t used with this cycle we can then freeze and use in the future.
At our appointment, we also learned about the new regiment of drugs that Kyla will be taking. The main one will be a progesterone shot that will be given in her phanny with a needle that is about 3 times as long as the ones we’ve been using. She’ll also be taking antibiotics, steroids, aspirin and prenatal vitamins. Please pray for Kyla, because we understand that the progesterone shots aren’t very fun to receive. Hopefully, there won’t be much “Bloodeh” involved.
Tonight we gave Kyla a HCG Trigger shot that will make her ovulate within 36 hours, which is timed exactly for our egg retrieval appointment of Tuesday at 9am.
We are both so excited and nervous as we enter this pivotal stage of our IVF cycle. It’s crazy to think that in just over 36 hours from the time I am typing this, doctors and nurses will be getting Kyla’s eggs and my sperm together and creating embryos.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers.
We will check in again after our appointment on Tuesday with all the details on how many eggs they were able to retrieve from Kyla and especially how Kyla did with the whole procedure.
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