day 42.

called my voice mail today at my dr's office, to check on the progress after yesterdays egg retrieval, and out of the 23 eggs retrieved, 20 of them were good, and 15 of them are now fertilized!!!  yaaay!!!!  i get to call and check on my wittle baby embryo's every day to check the status of them growning and splitting!!!  i'm so excited beyond words to try to explain what i'm feeling right now!  other than being exhausted from working today (after my ovaries being poked around on yesterday with a suction needle and my progesterone shot), overall i feel really good. 

the IM progesterone shots have actually (so far) gone better than expected.  i just get so worked up over needles.  seriously, you think the fear would start to fade by now, but it hasn't.  maybe it's due to the fact that i was sooo over giving myself shots for the past 2 weeks, or the fact that a sweet dear friend offered to do them for me.  i think it's easier when someone else does the sticking.  (plus i think clint was relieved because he said i would be so much nicer to her than i would be to him, if in fact they hurt as bad as everyone has told me they would!)  WHAT WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!?!? 

so far, so good, but i've only had 2, and i don't have bruises YET.  although i do have to continue these until my pregnancy test date (dec 3rd).  and next week, i may be saying something totally different!  my butt muscle does feel like the day after basketball/baseball conditioning.  not so much like a torn muscle, just really strained.  or sort of like when u go to the gym and you decide to increase your weight, but it ends up being too much, and you don't realize it until the next day.   the actual stick itself feels like an enormous life size bee stinging you in the butt.  :) 

only 2 more weeks!!!  i hope it goes by as fast as the last 3 weeks have!

~~LLC