Day Sixteen

Tomorrow mornings appointment should be a good one. We'll hopefully know exactly when our egg retrieval will be and again, get a status check on the follicles. I truly cannot believe we are just days from retrieval. I'm getting very excited.

I know I'm still in the middle of this process, but it amazes me how different it is from my expectations. I read so much about how painful, how crazy I'd become, etc. And yet, I have not experienced so much as a minor mood swing. I've felt happy and positive and hopeful. This week I went to Barnes and Noble and picked up a book I read previously about IVF... no comparison. It just shows how different everyone's bodies are and how differently they react. That as well as the fact that everyone's IVF is different. We all have different drug regimens, different needles, different shot locations, different procedures. I think a lot of the books and articles out there like to harp on the worst case scenarios and leave out the positive IVF experiences that many people do have. So on the record... even if this IVF attempt fails... I'm saying that for me, IVF has been a positive experience.