Trigger Time!

I was called at 3 PM today and told today is the trigger day....finally. My estrogen hit 3287. My trigger time is promptly at 10:30 PM. I only have a 5 minute window to inject (although the doctor who performed today's sonogram claims it is more like 15 minutes but I will be injecting at exactly 10:30 PM no matter what). I certainly do not want a $9,000 mistake.

Based on my trigger time, my surgery should be scheduled (according to my calculations) for Friday at 9:30 AM. I believe I need to be at NYU one hour before the scheduled surgery time. Luckily, Friday will be a easy day to get into Manhattan since it is the day after Thanksgiving.

I found some websites to show me how to prepare the trigger shot of HCG and also how to inject the HCG. The sites are here (respectively):

http://www.ivf1.com/hcg-trigger/

and

http://www.ivf1.com/intramuscular-injections/

Still growing...

The future kiddies are still growing. Yesterday, I dropped down to 150 IU of Gonal F. Monday night, I took 225 IU. I continue every morning with the Antagon before I leave to go to NYU. The sonograms and the blood work is daily now. It will continue until I go in for retrieval.

My estrogen for yesterday was 2760. It should go up very little in the next couple of days.

The doctor who performed the sonogram today told me that there might be a retrieval on Friday. I went over the HCG shot with her today to make sure I knew how to do it.

The sonogram picture, if I am reading it right, shows a future kid to be almost 22 1/2 mm and another one is almost 20 mm!