IVF Warriors

Holy smokes!

                This IVF thing isn’t for the weak of hearts. We had our egg retrieval on September 24th. I have been wanting to wait to see what the final results of our fertilization to make an update. But my heart told me that I needed to post sooner. I have been doing a lot of soul searching and word finding.

                There aren’t many words for this whole process. I think that to explain it would be mentally exhausting and emotional. If you know me. I am not an emotional person. During this whole process I have just wanted to cry every single day. I am sure the hormones have not helped that at all. Ha!

                In the last two weeks I have made almost a dozen trips back and forth to Billings. I have had about that many ultrasounds and half the number of days spent away from my own house and bed. Don’t get me wrong. I really did enjoy spending the evenings with my Dad and Val. Seeing my sister every once in a while, when I was home. I got to spend some much-needed girl time with my girl Brianna and her boys at Chico. I caught a stock car race with Dad and Val. I had to laugh at myself during the races because I had to sneak away to give myself my shots. I called Reo and had made a comment to him something along the lines of “you know you’re going through fertility treatments when you have to leave the races to give yourself shots in the belly and hope to goodness that nobody walks by and mistakes you as a druggie shooting up!”

                There were so many good things that came of this. I am exhausted still. My arms are bruised from where they tried to put an IV in at the surgical center. I am just now starting to feel back to my somewhat normal self.

                Now we just wait for the final embryo numbers which I hope to hear this week what we have going on. It’s so weird to think that my babies are growing outside of my body in petri dishes in a whole different state. As my dad said, “miracles”. That they are!

                Thanks for all of the thoughts and prayers this week. I sure have felt them. Keep them coming. I will update with the final numbers soon.

Love you guys,

Morgan