Grapes!?!

I'm in the midst of my marathon of doctors visits now. Thats a good thing - it means we are getting close!! Still don't know much about the bloodwork, though it is being done every time I go in. They are keeping me at 3 amps because I seem to respond better to it.

My ultrasound was VERY positive this morning. Nurse Jenny says my ovaries look like a big bunch of grapes. It was kind of funny - they let me look at the screen, and I have so many follicles right now that my poor uterus is being squeezed down to nothingness. They got a kick out of it because apparently its rare to get a good shot of the (suffocating) uterus and both ovaries at the same time. For those of you who don't know, this is actually the second time my ovaries have been a source of medical wonderment. Dr. Fields, my OB/GYN, uses an ultrasound photo of my ovaries taken about 2 years ago to demonstrate a classic, picture perfect case of PCOS in his lectures at UT Hospital. I'm famous! Well, part of me anyway. Needless to say, I'm feeling a bit bloated today!

Before you start thinking we're having 12 kids this go around, only 4-5 of my follicles are big enough to transform to potential eggs. So no septuplets this month, only quints. Just kidding! It is highly unlikely that all of them would be fertilized.

I'm going back in tomorrow morning because Dr. Keenan says we are very, very close. As soon as we get the thumbs up, Steve will be giving me a "trigger shot", which makes the mature eggs drop. They gave me the meds today. Then we go in for the back to back IUIs. And hopefully the sanitized sperm will be injected straight to and will find my medically generated egg, and the plan will come together. I'll certainly pass along another update after my appointment tomorrow. When it is officially "go time" we will need all of the prayers we can get!