My goodness!  What a day.  We knew today would be the day they called us with the results of our genetic testing.  I was sick with nerves.  I was in a meeting that went a little long.  I got back to my desk at 12:08 and saw ORM called me at 12:04.  I couldn’t believe I just missed it.  I pinged Patrick and told him I had a VM from ORM.  We listened to it in private only to hear it was a message asking us to call them back.  I realize I was holding my breath while listening to it.  We call back the office only to get the answering service since they are at lunch.  What type of cruelty is this?!?  I am almost in tears and we decide to wait 45 minutes until the office opens.

Finally we reach someone.  She lets us know that the embryologist who called us is the only one with the results and she is now at lunch.  I couldn’t believe it.  We leave her a message and return to our days.

At 2:30 she calls me back.  I ask her to hold on.  I ping Patrick, but he is in a meeting OF COURSE!  So, I get some privacy and decide to take the  news by myself.

SHE LET’S ME KNOW OUR ONE AND ONLY EMBRYO IS NORMAL!!!

I can’t describe the relief I felt in that moment.  So many feelings.  Feeling still sad that we only had one embryo while being so grateful the one we had was genetically normal.  All these thoughts were flooding my head and then I hear, Do you want to know the gender?

Oh my gosh, of course I do!!!  But not without Patrick.  So, she agrees to leave us a voicemail that tells us the gender so we can hear it together.  I finally get in touch with Patrick and we listen to the voicemail together.  We finally get to hear news together instead of me telling him everything I find out.  Our day ended in a beautiful way!!

And no, we aren’t announcing the gender!