A story, a secret: This is our journey...: The operating room...

As we waited to be taken down to the transfer room, which was the same operating room I was in for retrieval day, both Julia and Dr. Shomento were near by.

They laughed with us as I wrote the wrong date on a consent form...they chatted, they made us feel at peace. They shared their hopefulness with us. Lots of smiles where shared.

We were waiting for the go ahead, and as we waited they brought Joel his transfer room get-up!

They let me take a picture of them all "geared up"!

It was finally time for the walk...Julia took us this time, and I was so happy Joel was allowed to come!!

I was still considered a "fall risk", hence the rubber soled socks.

The room was not as intimidating this time, there were less people. Just Julia, Joel and I to begin with! I laid on the same bed. But this time I was able to stay awake for the entire thing.

Soon entered Dr. Shomento and Dr. Monteville, the other fertility specialist with the Billings Clinic, he serves patients in Billings and to the east and south...

He brought his ipod! They asked for music requests...it was pretty cool!

We all decided on "easy listening". We heard some Amos Lee, and maybe some others.

A person from the lab came in to have me identify myself and our lab dishes with the embryos...

Dr. Monteville who was also very kind, had the job of keeping the ultra sound wand pointed at my bladder, to assure a smooth transfer!

We watched on the screen as Dr. Shomento gathered the 2 embryos into the catheter that would transfer them into me...

"Your embryos are beautiful," Dr. Monteville said as he watched the screen with us.

I mean, to say we were in awe is an understatement...

We were watching a miracle in the works.

On another screen Julia and Dr. Monteville described the scene as Dr. Shomento did the transfer...we would not have known what we were looking at without their help!

Within minutes it was over...I had to slide over to the recovery bed then Julia and Joel rolled me down the hall...

30 minutes of resting.

Dr. Shomento visited us in recovery with a picture of the 2 embryos they transferred and the other ones, including the ones that just might make it through the night and be able to be frozen for, hopefully future siblings of the ones transferred into me!

What a day!