Retrieval Day- 25 Eggs!!

I really shouldn't be allowed to be put under general anesthesia.

So this morning went really well, we were in the doc's office getting prepped around 6:45am.  M was whisked away to do his business and I was set up with my gown, IV, blood pressure and heart rate monitoring, etc.  So my anesthesiologist was super cute.  I thought it when I saw him but obviously would have never said anything.  They wheeled me in the retrieval room around 745am and the last thing I remember is just some coldness in my veins then I was out.  Nothing like last time- didn't have that panicked feeling that I was awake, or the burning feeling in my hand.  That was a relief because that was what I was most dreading.  Anyway, upon waking up apparently I said to my anesthesiologist, "Have I told you that you are cute?  Well, you are."  He responded by saying "I have a face for radio".  Meanwhile, my nurse was like "Yeah, like he hasn't heard that before."  Other than my lack of inner monologue, I would stay retrieval day went very well!  All in all we have 25 eggs that will be ICSI'd today and we'll have a report tomorrow AM with how many fertilzed.

There was one thing that kind of threw us for a loop today-  about 20 minutes before surgery our embryologist came in to talk about the procedures they would be taking for PGD this cycle.  Now, the clinic is fronting my PGD bill this round.  Last time, they biopsied 8 embryos on Day 3 and only 1 made it to Day 5 blast so that one was also biopsied.  Out of the 9, only 2 were normal, the remaining 6 were not able to be biopsied because they did not make it to Blastocyst stage.  So this time around, they said they were only going to do Day 5 biopsy on Blastocyst embryos, they would not consider doing Day 3 because the field was "moving away from Day 3 unless absolutely necessary".  Now, the thought crossed my mind that they were perhaps doing this to SAVE MONEY on me since they were fronting the bill.  Actually, the thought crossed M's mind and passed it along to me.  I personally can't believe that ethically that would be the reason, and as of right now I refuse to believe it.  I still have some research to do on Day 3 vs. Day 5 biopsy and what the industry standard is, but if they are trying to save money by biopsying only the Day 5 embryos, I don't even know what to say about that.  The "First, Do no Harm" part of the Hippocratic oath would surely be out the window.

I guess for right now we are going to go with what the experts say! You know what happens when we try to buck the system...