What a beautiful, hot morning to travel down to Pleasant Grove! The Utah Fertility Center's Murray location is closed Sat, Sun & Monday's; so Chris joined me and we drove to the Pleasant Grove location for my Ultrasound and my bloodwork. Each day, my ovaries are getting more and more tender. Some days, I can only stand for a little bit, while other days it hurts to sit down. It's all worth the 10 days of misery to get the outcome. Today my ultrasound reviled that I have 16 follicles on my right ovary and 17 follicles on my left. Out of all of those, I have about 5-6 that are getting close the size we need. My bloodwork also came back great! Everything is headed in the right direction. We will need to do meds, ultrasounds & bloodwork until Tuesday, then we should be good to go for the egg retrieval on Thursday.
I want to explain what follicles are. Follicles are like an egg sack; within the follicle is the egg. It's good to hear that I have so many follicles on both ovaries, but they will probably only take 5-6 follicles off of each over, the largest ones of course. Once they have the follicles, they will be able to see the egg within the follicle and determine if they are the correct size and healthy enough to be fertilized with Chris' sperm. So while it is good to hear that I have so many follicles, we just need to make sure they continue to grow and we get a good number on the day of egg harvest.
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