Tuesday's Throne
This morning was the longest morning of my life…or at least as much of my life as I can remember. I waited and waited and waited and waited for the donor coordinator to call me with the status update- how many eggs were collected from the 15-18 follicles, how many fertilized, etc. She had said that she would call this morning with that update and I anticipated that she meant late morning. But then, morning passed and the call never came.
So at , I decided to call her. Her voicemail message said that she had gone home for the day and would be returning messages on Monday afternoon. Seriously?!? When my transfer would either be Monday or Tuesday! So, I called the fertility center’s main line and spoke to the office operator and then a nurse who was able to find my chart. This is how the conversation went:
Nurse: Okay…so your transfer has been scheduled already for on Tuesday.
Me: Okay…but do you have the numbers of eggs and how many fertilized? I didn’t get any update today at all.
Nurse: Really? Oh. Sorry about that. Let me see here….16 eggs, 14 were injected with your husband’s sperm and 12 fertilized. So you have 12 embryos to work with for now and we’ll do the Day 5 transfer on Tuesday.
Me: No. I think that is the total number you are reading. We did a split cycle…sharing the eggs…and the donor only had 15 follicles, so that can’t be our numbers. OH MY GOD! Please tell me they didn’t accidentally fertilize ALL of the eggs with my husband’s sperm and forget to split them.
Nurse: One second…nope. That is the split numbers. Your donor did really well…over 30 eggs.
Me: Are you really sure you have the right chart?
Nurse: Positive. You have 12 so far…congratulations. We’ll see you on Tuesday.
HOLY CRAP!!! I am so excited and so scared that the phone is going to ring, telling me it was a mistake. I guess the coordinator’s comment that “they don’t always count the follicles carefully during the scans” was a bit of an understatement. (By the way…today pushed me over the edge. Lots of you have recommended that I say something about the coordinator after this cycle is over and I really didn’t want to…but enough is enough. Not calling me today, even though she looked at my chart long enough to schedule my transfer, was the straw that broke the camel’s back. But I’m setting my irritation aside for now so that I can just be ecstatic.)
I know that a lot can happen between now and Tuesday, but I have so much confidence that Tuesday…whether it results in a pregnancy or not…is not going to be a disappointing day in our journey…and that was something I was genuinely concerned about over the last week. Instead, things went better than I ever could have expected…even with the donor’s usual response. As Ants would say “I’m over the moon!”
Thank you so much for all of your support, prayers, thoughts and good vibes. I’ll check back in soon. Right now, I have to go massage my face because I’m not used to smiling this big for this long, and it hurts. (Okay...so really I'm going to do a happy dance in the bathroom, but my face really does hurt).
