Hi there everyone!
So the latest update on our progress: The eggs are doing well and growing at a good rate. He thinks we should have 15-20 mature follicles on the day of egg retrieval which will probably be next Friday or Saturday, so either the 17th or 18th. My ovaries are starting to feel kind of full, but nothing too uncomfortable. My stomach is a little tender and bruised at the injection sites. I alternate between each side each day. I start a new injectable medication tomorrow morning called Cetritide. This medication will prevent me from ovulating. This is a good thing, because we want the eggs to stay in my ovaries until it’s time for all of them to be retrieved. So I will be taking two injections now, the egg stimulating medicine, Gonal-f in the evening at 9pm, and then the ovulation suppression medicine in the morning at 8 am. Since the egg retrieval will not happen until the 17th or 18th we are having to extend our stay by a few days. This is actually a good thing, because now Dr. Arici will be doing our embryo transfer, and not the other doctor that we met that is in his practice. Each month, he goes back to Yale for a week, and this coming week he is scheduled to go to Yale. He flies out tomorrow and will be back on the 20th. So this week we will be seeing his partner, a female doctor who will do our egg retrieval and then right after he returns he will do our embryo transfer. So instead of flying out on the 21st we will be flying out on the 27th. Suzanne, who is the person that we went through to do this trip, has already changed our flights. So we are set to leave at 5:55 am on the 27th and will be back that same day at 1:40 our time.
Because of the Ramadan holiday and everything pretty much still being closed, we had to stay on site again today. Glen and I sat outside and read this afternoon. We were also able to take a taxi to a McDonalds that was close. It was good to have some American food. The little hamburgers taste just like they do in the states, but the French fries and ketchup are nowhere as good!!
Today we found out how to work the bus system by another person, Hassan, who works in the Foreign Patients Department with Seyhan. So tomorrow morning we are going to take the bus into town, and then the metro (subway) to Taxim Square to spend the day walking around and so forth. Even if things are still closed, there is plenty to see. Taking public transportation will be so much cheaper than taking a taxi into to town. We are at least 20 miles outside of the city, so you can imagine how much that would cost. Seyhan is usually really good about lining us up rides using the hospital shuttles, but she will be out all of next week on vacation. She said her colleagues in the Foreign Patients Department would be able to line us up rides, but we just wanted to be on the safe side and know how to work the public transportation system just in case.
We're going to play a game called "Guess what this is":
Post a comment on what you think this item is. We will reveal the answer in the next edition:
Thank you all.
Glen and Staci
4 comments on "Day 9 in Turkey"
Always happy to see a new post from destination parenthood! Was hoping they could retrieve the eggs on the 16th since that is your birthday but I am glad they are growing well. Hope your stomache doesn't getting any more tender. Soooo glad it is Friday. On call still but should just have one wound care to do tomorrow. Going to sleep late!!! Or if I wake up early at least I can just relax and chill with the critters.
Glad yall will be able to use the public transport.
Love yall! Mom
Oh the gadget looks like a freaky futuristic/antique telephone! Or a weird shower nozzle system.
It has something to do with sperm.
Is that supposed to be a phone? It looks scary!
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