Egg pick up is booked!

My egg pick up is booked for Monday morning. My numbers hit 2226 today and they're expected to rise a little bit more over the weekend. I do my last stims tomorrow morning at 7.30am and then trigger shot at 7pm.

On Wednesday we paid the last installment to the fertility clinic. This morning I rang and paid the anesthetic gap fee for Monday. Then on Monday all that is left to pay is the operating theatre fee.

Monday morning I have to be at the day surgery unit at 7.15am, with surgery scheduled for 8am. It's should take 3-4 hours before I'm out and in recovery. We only live a 15 min drive from the fertility clinic and hospital, so our nurse has said that my husband should drop me off go home for a few hours and collect his sample and drop it off to the clinic when he comes back to pick me up.

I'm a bit nervous, I'm scared that there's not going to be many mature eggs. Or that they don't fertilize. Or that they don't make it to transfer. MFI is an issue for us and we are doing ICSI but it's the unknown and the waiting that gets to me. I'm not scared of the anesthetic or the procedure at all.

We've kept this cycle pretty much a secret and haven't told many people, just two of my close friends and my parents. With the IUI's all our friends and family knew what was going on. But this time around I didn't want everyone to get their hopes up and be excited only to have to break bad news to them, or explain that the cycle is taking longer than we thought it would.

I'm staying positive but I'm also aware that things can change at every step on this journey. I'm just taking things one day at a time and for now, that's doing the last shots tomorrow! And focusing on having a quiet weekend with my husband.