I wanted to start by again thanking everyone who has supported us emotionally, temporally, financially or otherwise. We would not have made it this far without every one of you. As an update: Katie and I went in last week for our retrieval. The good news was we retrieved 40 eggs! 29 of them made it […]

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IVF egg retrieval. They put me under anesthesia and in about a half hour they take out all the eggs in my follicles. This is done using a transvagional ultrasound wand and a giant, giant needle with some sort of suction device on it. Yes, no fun. But better than incisions? Yes. If you want […]

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Last night I took my HCG trigger shot to get things going for my Wednesday morning egg retrieval. As part of that, I had to take a pregnancy this morning. If the shot was working properly, I should get a positive result. It worked! I know it’s not the real thing and I know my […]

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