A recap of all the crap from this week...

I guess I will start with Wednesday morning's monitoring appt: 

After 8 days of stims, my follicle growth had seemed to stall out and my progesterone level was rising (not good).  The RE told me that if my progesterone went above 3, that he would want to cancel the fresh cycle and just do the retreival and freeze the embroyos for a transfer in January.  That was only if my follicles kept showed better growth on Thursday.  If there was no growth, we would be entirely cancelled....just great.

Later that night, both of my dogs got skunked in the face at bedtime.  It was absolutely horrible.  We gave them 2 baths and actually got most of the funk out of them.  However, the same can't be said for the rest of the house.  I cannot begin to describe the horrible stench that is still lingering in our house.  I have tried just about every remedy I've read about online and while the smell is much better (4 days later), it is still noticeable.  I guess we will just have to wait until it lightens up on it's own.

By Friday morning, our fresh cycle was officially cancelled with our retreival still scheduled for Sunday and the embryos to freeze on Monday.  At that point I had 9 follicles, 7 measuring above 15mm. 
While we were pretty upset that we wouldn't get to do the transfer this cycle, at least we would be getting some embryos.  Little did we know that the universe was not done screwing us over.

Fast forward to the retreival this morning when I came out of the anesthia.  I asked the girl in the recovery room how many they got to which she responded "4."  Ummm, what???  She said she would get the doctor to dicuss it with me.  I was still pretty out of it at this time so I really didn't get to speak with him much, but basically the 4 that they got didn't really even look mature. 

None of this even makes sense to me.  Out of the 9 that I had 7 measured between 15-20mm on Friday.  How is this happening? 

He then went on to say that they would try to mature the eggs that they got in the lab (I've never even heard of this being done before) and would hopefully get them to fertilize.  Needless to say, I will be calling tomorrow to discuss everythin with him coherently.  I can't help but be terrified that my body will respond like this again in January and we will be screwed again...ugh!