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I can't sleep.  I've had this insomnia going on for nearly the past 2 weeks.  I had a rough day yesterday.  I felt crummy as all these meds are blowing up my ovaries.  Then, I ate pizza and ice cream last night and felt better today.  Hah.  Every once and a while, it's important to throw some pizza and ice cream into your diet.  #truth  The fertility meds just push and push and push you to your max limit and the feeling is like a large knot in your stomach.  Everything else is being pushed out of the way.  I get full much faster when I eat foods because there's just not a lot of room for my stomach to hold much right now.  This process is always brutal, and I haven't even let the "emotional ride" get to me yet.

I went in for another appointment this morning and the doctor decided to push me another day on meds and move my egg retrieval back to Saturday.  WELL THEN.  The nurse says to me, after measuring some very large/mature follices, "I don't think pushing you another day will hurt."  Oh, you don't think?  OKAY THEN.  I'm already feeling pretty large and in charge. 

I wonder how many eggs they'll retrieve on Saturday?  20+? 

I have to take my trigger shot tomorrow night and that will throw this cycle into ovulation.  They'll give me an exact time because it needs to be something like 34 hours prior to the surgery.  Last January, I had to take it at 1am.  That will make Friday an interesting day for me, and then Saturday I'll head in for surgery, anesthesia and all.  Since I'll be out for the procedure, they'll give an update to Kellen before we head home.



Pray for Kellen for putting up with me.  ;-)

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