This is the most interesting harvest anyone has been a part of. The harvest was yesterday, Sat April 23, 2016. Thursday, my DH decided he needed to have an unscheduled landing of our plane in the trees. Yes, he crashed our plane shortly after take off into a bunch of trees; the trees were the only place to land. He is ok, just has a bruised spinal cord which has caused his hands to be tingly, numb, and feel like they are burning. He got to come home from the hospital Friday afternoon. Oh, he has a broken nose and a scratch on his nose, and bruised ribs; as well as other scratches and bruises.
I was on the phone with the RE letting her know what was going on. We changed the plan to just freeze the eggs and fertilize them at a later date, when the DH is feeling better.
He woke up Sat morning and decided he wanted to try to give a sample, with my help if needed. So we get to the clinic early to see if we can make this happen. Keep in mind, he is on Narcotics for pain, a steroid dose pack for the swelling in his neck, and a drug that helps with nerve pain.
We arrive at the clinic and he refused his morning dose of pain med to make sure he wasn't too drugged. That ended up being a mistake later in the day.
Unfortunately, he wasn't able to pull it off (literally and figuratively). So we went ahead and just froze the eggs.
They ended up getting 9 mature eggs. We are still looking to do the frozen transfer (FET) June 22, so this is what will happen:
They will thaw the eggs 5 days before the FET. The DH will go into the clinic and leave the sample to fertilize them. On day 3 post fertilization , they will biopsy the fertilized embryos and sent the biopsy off for genetic testing. On day 5 post fertilization, the will take the best 2 embryos and transfer them into me, and freeze any remaining embryos.
Even though this is considered a FET, it is essentially a fresh transfer, because the embryos will have never been frozen. I think this is to our advantage also, because I won't be on all the stimulating drugs like with a true fresh transfer, yet the lining will be prepared like a frozen transfer. It's almost the best of both worlds.
I told me DH to stop trying to upstage Prince and Chyna's deaths....and that if he didn't want to have kids, he could have picked a better way to tell me than to crash the plane!! LOL
Anyway: this is where we are at this point. 9 mature eggs on ice. I don't know if she got more than 9 that weren't mature, I forgot to ask. I am in a lot of pain today. Yesterday wasn't so bad with all the IV narcotics on board when I left. I did over do it though. Trying to take care of the DH.
Oh, to top everything off, my MIL (who lives with us) had a heart attack from hearing her son crashed his plane. She got to come home from the hospital yesterday afternoon. It's been an interesting few days.
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