The worst is over...Lord willing

Well, we went to Pensacola today and I had the egg retrieval done. They took me back to a room at about 9:30 and put in an IV. They gave me a pill for nausea, which I never really get nauseous so I guess I really didn't need that. The nurse who was going to be giving me my meds told me that this medication is 10 times stronger than xanax, but wears off faster. It's also like 100 times better than motrin. So they took me back to the Operating room, and started giving me meds. The room started spinning and I felt really tired. I don't know if I actually ever went to sleep or not. I remember when the doctor started extracting the eggs (they stick a needle through the vaginal wall and suck out the follicles) it hurt pretty bad. I had my eyes closed, but I cringed. The nurse was up at my head watching me to see if I had enough pain medication. He grabbed my hand, and I just remember squeezing his hand really hard. After they had poked me a couple times I started to cry. I think I felt it pretty good, I don't remember. (one of the side effects of the medicine is amnesia) The nurse decided to give me more pain medication. I know I cried through most of it, and once they were done and took me to this room for recovery I could not stop crying. I don't know if it was the meds or the hormones or what. I was sore after the procedure, but not enough to cry about it. I know Linda came in and talked to me about something, but I don't remember what. -I remember telling Jeremy "you're paying attention right, cause I won't remember any of this."- Doctor Ripps had shown me a piece of paper that had my estrogen levels on it. After 4 days of follistim with 225 iu's my estrogen was 1000 something (I don't know how they measure it) so they backed down to 150 iu's and when I was checked again it had doubled to 2000 something. They backed me down to 75 iu's and when they checked me a third time it was 9000 something. So basically doctor Ripps said unless my estrogen level drops dramatically by Monday we're gonna have to freeze our embryos and wait for this to clear up. It could be very bad, including death if I were to get pregnant with my estrogen so high. It's dissapointing to have to wait. They will transfer the embryos in the middle of December, but we need to do what's best for myself and for the baby. They would much rather put the embryos in fresh, but we just may not be able to. I have a number 27 on the bottom of my hand because that's how many eggs they extracted. I have been praying that God would not give us any more embryos than we can raise as children, so maybe this is his way. I'm gonna go lay down again, I'm trying to take it real easy so I can go to work tomorrow. Thanks for all the prayers and encouraging words. Love you all. Shauna