Monday, June 30, 2008

The results are in...

Yesterday was a horribly long day. We had to be at the admissions desk at 6:00am in order to be assigned a room. We got through all the paperwork and were in our room by 7:30am. I had a bed and there was a "couch" that looked more like a holly hobby bed I'd seen in a little girls room. We both laid down and slept for a few minutes. My procedure was scheduled for noon, so we were both tired and cranky and stuck there for a while and that only got worse as the day went on.

We had our procedure at noon and we got 16 eggs, 15 mature! There were signs of hyper stimulation (fluid in the cavity), so I had to be on an IV for a LOT longer than expected. They wanted to treat the issue before it got any worse. So, we laid in that hospital room until 6:00 that night! I was so happy to go home!

I would like to mention that Lilavati hospital is a veg hospital. Everything they bring you is vegetarian. I was dying to get out and find some steak!

We are thrilled with our results, this number is much higher than any we've seen before. Dr. Yashodhara was there for the egg retrieval and had lunch with Bob in the hospital lounge afterwards. We also met our surrogate, Seena (sp?) and her caretaker very briefly. She was a lovely, smiley girl of good hight and size. That comforts me. I am 5'10 and solidly built; I have a mix of statures in my relatives, some quite large, but we all tend to have big babies, I believe that it is true on Bob's side as well. For me, to see a 5 foot surrogate with a fragile little build would be disconcerting...

Bob is taking the bus to Pune. For the record, I tried to convince him to fly, but he's having none of it. He wants to ride the bus. Lord love him.

He'll come back on Wednesday and I will go to the hospital for transfer. Then we are off to London on Thursday. This trip is going by so quickly!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sweet! Glad to hear the maturity of the eggs are excellent. Lilavati hospital has that 2nd floor cafe that serves some really good veg sandwiches. I spent many an hour in that cafe. Oh, and don;t forget the cattle-car style elevators..I can't tell you how many cycles I had to wait because the elevator was so jam packed!

Mommy said...

Brian, I thought of you the whole time I was "in"! They had those little bassinets for the babies off to the side! I was in room 1007...

Anonymous said...

We were in 1043 and it was not bad. The air worked and we had a tv..the brought these bassinets in, the girls loved them, slept like angels in them. Did you get to meet the doctor with the limp? We loved him, he was hysterical and truly cared for our girls. Hope you get to feeling better. I remember how Lisa was after her retrieval.