Playing catch-up

Howdy all. I have been sitting in bed trying to catch up on some work since I have missed quite a few days last week with all the Dr. Appointments. For any of you outside the "inner circle", I have polycystic ovaries which prevents me from making babies the old fashioned way. So anyway, we completed the transfer today of two IVF embryos without a hitch. The others are all being frozen in case this one doesn't take and we have to do some more cycles. The chances are at about 50% right now and if I do get pregnant I have about 35-45% chance that it would be twins instead of just one. But even if this cycle doesn't work the hard part of making the embryos is done and we could do a good number of frozen cycles which would be much easier on my body (and considerably cheaper). I have been lucky to have so much financial support from both my and Greyson's parents.

The retrieval of the embryos on Tuesday was the worst part. They put you under light sedation and then stick a large needle through the vaginal wall and pierce the ovaries about 60 times. I was pretty much asleep for the first half hour and didn't feel much. But for some reason the anesthesiologist lightened the load for the last part and I came back to earth and could feel it all as they shoved this large needle over and over. But the pain is forgotten quickly. My ovaries are still the size of softballs and will stay that way for awhile. It is almost time for my evening intramuscular shot that Greyson has to give me for the next 5 weeks (if I get pregnant). All the previous sub-q shots where pretty much painless, but the intramuscular ones hurt. And the medicine is oil based which doesn't absorb very quickly and leaves me with sore butt cheeks. I am in the "two week wait" now and will go into the clinic for a pregnancy test just after Thanksgiving.

What else... Greyson is doing great. He is busy with his graphic design contracts for a restaurant website and a online city business map. He also has a couple other bids out on some promising projects. I don't really know many details. I have been pretty self involved lately and haven't given him much spousal support so I will have to get on that.

Well it is time for dinner and a shot.
Melanie