My lagging left ovary

Sunday, I went down to the Sandy Clinic for monitoring, because the Layton Clinic isn't open on Sundays.  The blood work looks good, right where he wants it to be, but as of Sunday, I have 3 follicles that are bigger than the rest, meaning those are probably going to be my only 3 good eggs retrieved.  He says if the others can catch up, we might be able to get a couple more out of them, but he didn't sound too confident about that.  Also, he said he wanted to see me every day now.

That means today, I drove down to Layton again to do another scan, and have yet another blood draw.  I'm really starting to look like a junky.  For everyone keeping track, that is 5 blood draws JUST THIS WEEK, out of the same two veins, because apparently my right arm is not going to cooperate.  I don't have too many irrational fears, mainly just spiders and needles.  But after this experience, I'm pretty sure its just spiders.  I'm becoming pro at needles whether I want to or not, between the lab work and the shots.  I'm still not to the point where I could give myself the shot, but one step at a time, right?  Plus, that's Austin's only job and he doesn't want to feel left out!

So today, the results were a bit the same.  Estrogen looks good, but the 3 larger follicles are probably the only ones we will get. He says sometimes they can get a good egg out of a 13-14 mm follicle, so I am praying the 12s on the right kick it into gear.  Dr. S says tomorrow is probably trigger day.  Lets all pray really hard that the 12s on the left can make it to 14 by tomorrow.  I still have about 12 follicles total, but only those 3 look like they will have good eggs.  My egg retrieval score was 4 in the beginning, meaning that we would most likely get 0-4 eggs (they usually want to get 8-15), so I guess I will be happy with just 3.  I had just hoped I would have enough to make it to a day 5 transfer.  That means I need at least 6 good ones.  I am just really pulling for those 3 good ones to do the best they can now, because we may not have many to choose from, and its looking like we may not get any to freeze.

I guess we can't let those 3 big ones get "too mature" while we let those others catch up.  I don't know what that means....they start wearing lipstick at 9 and and start dating some guy with a motorcycle at 13?  I guess that wouldn't be good!  He's probably right.