I am kind of shocking myself with how much I’m not obsessing about IVF right now.  I definitely was a jitterbug yesterday, but once that was over it’s like I flipped the “not going to stress about this anymore” switch and hours and hours will go by before it crosses my mind.

That’s why when my phone rang at 10:30 this morning, I wasn’t expecting to hear from the Embryologist. (I had forgotten about them calling, can you believe that?!) But that’s exactly who it was.

I missed the call but they left a voicemail, thankfully, and it was my egg report.

How weird is that, getting an egg report?

It’s weird.  I’m OK with you saying it, because it IS weird.

Anyway. The stats are in and they are as follows on the 15 eggs that were retrieved:

• 10 are currently fertilized and happily doing their thing
• 1 did not fertilize at all, but they’re going to leave it in there just in case it decides to catch up; sometimes they’re slow
• 3 eggs fertilized abnormally, and thus would not create a viable embryo, so they were discarded
• 1 egg was just play wacky, so they tossed it before even bothering to try to fertilize it

They’re not going to open the container tomorrow, so I won’t get a status report on the eggs again until Sunday.  Transfer will be for sure and for certain on Tuesday.  I’m assuming we’ll have way less than 10 by Tuesday as they continue to develop and some more are abnormal.  It’s typical for only 10% of your eggs that they pull to fertilize to the viable stage, so I’m thinking we’ll get one, maybe two to implant; exactly what we wanted.

The embryologist saying something about a looking for the embryos to have 6 cells on Sunday, and those that passed the 6 cell test would be the ones that continued on to form the blastocysts they will transfer on Tuesday.

We are only going to have TWO blastocysts transferred on Tuesday.  TWO.  In the unlikely event that there are more than two, we will have the other ones frozen to use later, but Dr. Babyplease said she had maybe 5 other patients have freeze-quality eggs this year.  It doesn’t happen that often.

So that’s the update.  We’ve currently got 10 in the cooker, and we’ll see how they are going on Sunday.

And I am going to lay back and relax tonight; I’ve had some kind of outlandish back pain all day, and it has gotten worse and worse.  So I called Dr. Babyplease’s office and spoke to her nurse who told me to GO HOME AND LAY DOWN.  She also called in a Vicodin prescription for me (VICODIN!  UGH!) because there’s no harm in taking it today; I have no babehs in me yet.

I hate Vicodin, but I’ll do just about anything to take the edge off this back pain.  Never have I been so fidgety and unable to think straight.

I feel like a total loser because we were going to go to a Christmas party tonight, but at 3:00 I told Joey there was no way in the world I could possibly survive an entire evening.  He was a champ and brought me home, and he’s heading back to CVS shortly to pick up my meds.

Wahoo.