As scheduled, I went in for my egg retrieval this morning. They had a good time trying to find a vein. They poked me 3 times before they got it to work. I don't blame them, it's the same thing every time someone has to tap a vein in my arms so I know it's me. I try to have a good sense of humor about it. All went well and they got out 17 eggs! Woohooo! Ok, that's as excited as I'm going to get. No more celebrating until we know how many of them were mature enough for fertilization... and how many embryos there are. So, I'll know more tomorrow. But so far so good, right? I have scheduled an acupuncture appointment for before and after the embryo transfer to hopefully improve my chances of the embryos sticking. It'll be nice and relaxing.
I am very uncomfortably bloated and tired so I took a nap with Aislinn this afternoon. After we woke up she was snuggling with me and watching tv when she suddenly threw up. That's when I noticed she was a bit warm. Howie called the doctor's office because she had told him earlier that her tummy hurt and she had only eaten half a waffle all day. We left without taking her temp because we figured they'd just do that there. They took her temp, but under her arm and not well because they said it was normal and Howie was like, "but she's burning up". Then the doc said she seemed warm when she was checking her. We checked her temp when we got home and she had a fever of 100.7. Just a slight fever, but she looked red and worn out. We gave her some tylenol and she was a new baby. She ate a waffle, some cheese, 2 pedialyte popsicles, water and chicken soup. She is attached to me at the moment so I think the two of us are going to sleep on the couch tonight. Hopefully we'll wake up to some good news tomorrow.
