Did someone fool me into running a one-legged race last night?

My right leg certainly feels like this was the case!

We got the instructions to do the hCG trigger shot last night at 12:45 a.m. There's just nothing like getting up in the middle of the night and driving down the street to allow your sister to jab a good-sized (all right, HUGE) needle into your leg.

The shot itself didn't hurt near as much as I thought it would. I think, however, that coming home and going back to bed wasn't my best idea. Obviously this is what made sense at the time, but today my leg is really sore. It's like I did a really strenuous workout with just the right side of my right thigh. Thank goodness this is the only middle-of-the-night shot!

The plan now is to go have the ER (egg retrieval) done tomorrow. The actual process is about 30 minutes, but we'll be in the city for a few hours once it's all said and done. They will tell us before we leave how many eggs they got. Then I go home and rest.

Thursday they will call and tell us how many fertilized and give us our instructions for ET (embryo transfer), which should be Friday. When we get there Friday, they will tell us how many embryos we have and we will tell them how many to put back in.

Our plan (and we know by now to only make loose plans) are to put 2 embryos in. This increases our chance of pregnancy but obviously creates a chance for twins. We are totally okay with the thought of twins. Once you get this far, and pay this much, you pretty much want to get "the biggest bang for your buck" as possible! The hope is that we will have a lot of embryos and will be able to freeze the rest of them. That way any future babies we may have can be created with a lot less drugs and invasiveness.

Check back tomorrow for how the ER went!