IVF 8: Embryo update day 7

Two additional embryos were biopsied yesterday making it four total frozen. Two were in poor condition and had stopped growing so they were discarded. There was one that had reached close to blast so they gave it an additional day to grow. I didn't get the usual early morning phone call so assumed it didn't make it. By 11 I still hadn't heard so I called and left a voicemail. News was as expected - didn't make it. 

In total we have four embryos frozen and the cells are on the way for genetic testing. Obviously at this point there's really no way to know and no point in speculating. In IVF 2 we sent six embryos to get tested and 0/6 were transferrable and all discarded. Over a year later we sent another six embryos from IVF 4 to get tested and three came back healthy. We'll have the final tally of how many are transferrable, if any, once we get results. Hopefully it won't take longer than a week, but it may due to the holiday weekend.

Taking it day by day to keep the anxiety down, sometimes minute by minute when the stress gets overwhelming. The time will pass, I know. We just have to get through another wait.

In the meantime I'm trying to avoid social media and the adorable gut-wrenching milestone first-day-of-school family pictures. A fellow anti-social friend asked if there was an app that changed back-to-school pictures with videos of dancing cats. If only.