Retrieval

Our retrieval was scheduled on Wed. June 7. We arrived about 20 min. early and we're the first patients. We wanted to get in and get out. I had to go to the 2nd floor to check in and get my vitals done. David went on up to the 3rd floor to produce his sample. I changed into the attractive hospital gown, socks and cap. More paperwork had to be initialed and signed. David met me and we had to chill for an hour and a half before they started. I got myself all ready with the numbing cream on both hands not knowing which had they would use for the IV. Wouldn't you know it, she did the IV in my arm. Ouch! Due to the fact that we waited so long after the IV before we went into the OR a clot had formed in the IV. I walk into the OR and proceed to get on the table with my legs in stirups and my behind half off the table. Really comfortable and attractive! I get prepped for the procedure. The embryologist came in to verify I was the right patient with the paperwork he had. Then the sonographer came in and got my legs and abdomen draped. The anesthesiologist came in to begin the drugs. That's when I started to lose it. First he put a syringe in the hub of the IV to check the line and totally blew the line right out of my arm. OK, now I'm freaking out. I start crying and everyone is trying to calm me down. Then he tries to fix it and it doesn't work, so he has to do another line. He starts to look at the veins in my wrist. David told him no way, he has to do it on my hand. That the wrist hurts worse. Thank you honey! I get through that fiasco and then they hook me up to the EKG moniter and the one cord was wrapped around another piece of equipment and totally broke off. While he's putting the IV in my right hand which is now going numb because the blood pressure cuff is too tight and I'm holding it across my chest because he is sitting to the left of me, the nurse is trying to clean off my left arm which has blood all over it and all over everywhere. They finally get the vein and he puts the drugs in right away. The doc comes in and apologizes and says I should have been asleep by now, that patients normally don't go through all this. Well thanks so much for putting me through it! So my eyes are starting to dart all over the room and before I know it I'm out. Totally did not feel a thing. David said it only took about 15 minutes. Just as I was starting to come to, I realize we're back in recovery and the nurse tells us we have 13 follicles. I'm a little upset and disappointed and start to cry again. I was hoping for much more since we were seeing 20-22 through all the ultrasounds. Well the retrieval is done and over so now we have to wait and see how many will fertilize.