Brutal honesty today

Well while I'm anxiously awaiting our fertilization report call, I figured it was only fair for me to share the whole truth and nothing but the truth about what this has been doing to my body. Just as a fair warning, it's not a pretty site!

These are the bruises from the Follistim injections. I had nine of these injections, and for some reason two of them bruised. For the most part these didn't hurt. Now the Ganirelix, which were also in the same spot would leave me feeling bruised but showed no signs. Had I taken this picture a few days ago, you would have been able to see more injection marks spread around. They just looked like little pink dots, nothing too interesting.

Now for the real ugliness...


This is all the bloating that has occurred since starting the fertility treatments. Needless to say, most of my pants don't fit real well. And if it all works out in the end, I'm totally not complaining. If it doesn't work (which I'm trying really hard to NOT think of as an option), then it is just plain cruel!

That's all I have for the gruesome pictures. The only update I have so far is that we had the ER (egg retrieval) done yesterday, but they didn't tell us how many they got. This is driving us nuts! Almost everyone we've read about got their numbers before they left the clinic (and I was told this is how it would go), but for some reason our doctor said he doesn't tell the number. His description was, "On a scale of bad to average to good, she was above average." I always thought that above average meant good, so I'm totally confused. This was a non-translatable scale, if you ask me.

I will post more when we get our phone call later this afternoon/evening.

Please think good thoughts!