Out for the Night

Well, I didn't do too well last night. I started feeling light-headed and woozy around 630pm. I ate some salty nuts, attempted to eat thai child rice( and immediately put it far away from where I was sitting) I had this weird feeling that I was going to either throw up of pass out. Turns out, I did both!

Poor Mr. S had to watch me suddenly lose consciousness and start making odd noises. I came to hearing the panic in his voice, saying my name. I had been in this weird dream state, and woke up so confused. He said it was about 10-15 seconds, but scared the hell out of him.

I slowly climbed the stairs, with him right behind me, and promptly lost all food from my stomach(luckily made it to the bathroom). I hate throwing up, but in a way, it was a relief.

He called the on-call Dr. She called back, and said my body probably needed to raise my blood-pressure, and that vomiting does that. Ugh. But, I slept for 10 hours, and woke up feeling much better.

What an ordeal! For those of you going through IVF, etc, I think this is a very rare reaction, so don't get worried! It may have been the antibiotic, the painkiller, or some combo that effected me so badly.

We are both glad to have the day off, would've taken it anyway, if we didn't. I am supposed to stay calm and quiet and drink a lot of water and eat salty things.

Waiting hopefully on Fert. Report.

All your well-wished are so wonderful. Thank you so much for sending us positive energy!

almost a dozen

We got 11 eggs. I'll get the fertilization report tomorrow. We had them do ICSI on the whole bunch(we learned that was necessary, last time).

Last time I did Egg Retrieval I had a woozy/nausea experience on coming out of sedation. The same thing happened today. Yuck.

I guess it happens to some people who have low blood pressure. Mine dipped to 86 over 63. The nurse was good and kept a close watch on me. I remembered it from before(it is one reason I get annoyed when people say IVF is easy) so I had picked a sprig of lavender leaves to inhale. I asked the nurse to get them, and the scent definitely helped some. The nurse was super cool, sprightly and steady.

Mr. S came back in, and was nice and attentive. I asked him to read to me, which was helpful with getting me to focus on something other than my pain and wooziness. When my b.p. was up to 108 over 68 I got the OK to leave.

The drive home was no-fun, but I napped after some blueberry pancakes, and am wake and feeling slow, but improved.

Thanks for all the positive energy!!! I probably will wait until tomorrow/Tuesday before any glass of wine. :)

Planning the Observed holiday

Seeing as I am still hivey on my arms, and have swelling ovaries, and have to get to bed early tonight, we aren't really paying attention to Valentine's Day.

This morning, Mr. S was looking at a bill and said, "What is the date?" and I said, "It's the 14th." and it was like there was an empty space in the air... we both rushed and said, "Happy Valentine's Day." Mr. S is a romantic, and got sad that we haven't paid attention to the holiday. But truly, other years, we often go out on a different night, if at all, because the pricey dinners seem silly to us.

And then I remembered that my RE said I may have a glass of wine, between egg retrieval and transfer. So, I am suddenly interested in having a "Valentine's Dad Observed." Complete with nice meal and drink. Hopefully my last alcoholic drink for 9 months!

I am a little nervous about tomorrow. I got an over-anxious worry, this morning, that the trigger shot hadn't worked, and my eggs wouldn't be mature. But, as the day has progressed, I have felt more 'pregnant' so I think it is working. Here's hoping we get at least 10 eggs tomorrow!