IVF #4 Day three post collection: nail biting tension as the day unfolds

Today was an interesting day.  We went out at about 9.30 to a used car auction, full of hail damaged vehicles from the March 22 storm.  Trawled around for hours looking at hundreds of lots, narrowing our choices, and waiting until 2pm when I could call the embryologist to see how the solo blob was travelling.  It took me ages to get through, then when I did, they put me on hold for far too long (way expensive on my crap mobile plan) so I hung up, and tried not to think about it while the car we wanted to bid on came around.

2.45pm, and the 2009 manual suzuki swift with 7,000 km on the clock and barely any damage (approved for re-licencing straight away without being checked) rolled onto the screen.  DH and I had fairly jangled nerves by this stage, having listened to the incessant auctioneering at top speed for the past 5 hrs, but we stayed focused and successfully picked it up for a bargain $7,750 (at least 10K off new price).  The auctioneers hinted that we did well and the people behind us said “they got a good deal!”

At this stage I felt like I could cope with embryo news, so I tried again and asked them to call me back when the embryologist was ready to talk.  Spent the next 30 mins in a queue waiting to put a deposit on the car, and checking the phone every ten seconds.  We were well away from the place and on the freeway when she called.  Apparently they always intended to freeze at day 2 (so in fact I could have called yesterday!) because if we do want to do PGS on a thaw in the future, it is better to freeze at day two, than at day three.

So, the news was that the solo blob DID survive to day two, and was frozen as a grade 2, 5 cell, good-looking embryo.

Who would have thought, at the beginning of this cycle, that I would be THRILLED to get one embryo?  Ha ha.  Well when it is a choice between one, and none…  I feel very grateful for small mercies, that we are still in with at least a chance.  Granted, this has yet to survive thaw, go back in a surrogate and hopefully not be genetically mutant material, but at least, right now, that is all still possible.

AND I have a new car.

Woot!