The sun is out and DrG's fingers have defrosted enough to allow me to add a new post to the blog. Camping is great but it was about 7 ° F on early Saturday AM. I have not ever been quite so cold as I was at 2 am, huddled like an animal inside 2 sleeping bags. My son was quite warm but he had the winter weight sleeping bag and a new fleece liner while I had the light-weight bag with a fleece liner...When we woke up it was snowing INSIDE our tent as the moisture from our breath had frozen on the inside of the tent!My son announced to his mother...
samedi 24 janvier 2009
jeudi 15 janvier 2009
Freezing, OHSS and PCOS
Posted on 06:46 by Unknown
Given that it is a brisk 19 degrees here in the Nation's Capitol, I thought that it would be appropriate to share a patient story that had some freezing in it...The use of cryopreservation has really helped us to reduce the risk of multiples and improve the overall long-term success rates with ART. More recently, vitrification, an ultra-fast freezing technique, has been used by our clinic and others to markedly improve the success rates with blastocyst stage embryos. The previously used slow-freezing approach was OK for day 3 embryos (as seen in...
jeudi 8 janvier 2009
Happy New Year!
Posted on 09:08 by Unknown
Well, here we are at the start of another new year and I have a bucketful of New Year's Resolutions that are unlikely to last until the Spring but you never know....2 years ago I did the Special K diet for an entire year. Dr. D would make fun of me every day as he enjoyed delicious lunches and I had my little bowl of Special K. Of course, by dinner time I was so darn hungry that I would wolf down an excessive amount of food thus defeating the purpose of the Special K diet.This year I also resolve to blog more frequently. Ha! We'll see how long...
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