Overdue for a posting!

Wow I've been really bad with keeping up with this blog. So I will sum it all up as quickly and briefly as possible. We had our retrieval which went very smoothly and produced 22 eggs! Not bad for a 42 year old! Of the 22 only one was discarded due to abnormalities. The others all had ICSI preformed on them the same day as retrieval. The following day 18 had fertilized. We made it to transfer with 5 excellent embryos all of great quality. The doc suggested transferring all 5 the embryologist leaned towards 4 and J wanted to do 1!!!! So of course the RE's persistence won out and we did all 5. He assured J that no one my age in his practice ever got knocked up with more than twins. Not sure how comforting that was for my poor husband. After the RE left J announced he would personally come back and kick his *ss if I was an anomaly!!! I was on bed rest for three days. My parents came up from southern Florida to help and it was wonderful. I didn't have to cook or clean or walk the dogs.....AWESOME.

After about a week I started to blow up like a balloon in my abdomen. I was having trouble taking a full breath and was drinking a ton but only peeing a drop. We eventually had to go to the ER that night because I started to have alot of trouble breathing and a burning sensation in my belly. They did an US and it showed massive amounts of fluid in my abdominal cavity. The doc asked if I could be pregnant? You think? I just told you I did IVF and J had to explain to you what it was!! They drew some blood for a pregnancy test and as we waited J stated he wished we would have gotten the doctor that at least got a B in Med school! Doc came back a few minutes later and state I was pregnant!!! He said go see your fertility doctor because we are not touching you. We then drove 2 hours to my RE's clinic and as soon as they saw the size of my tummy they freaked. They did blood work and sent me to be drained....yes drained! I had a lovely needle placed in my belly and out came 3 liters of apple juice looking yuck. I stayed in the hospital that day and night to be monitored and went home the next day.

Fast forward a week and I am being tapped again. Fun, Fun. Luckily I have had no other fluid build up since and am feeling somewhat like myself again! We go in for our first US tomorrow morning and I am so nervous.

BTW we had 3 frosties make it to blast stage and are now keeping each other company in freezer :)