The Day before Egg Retrieval!

Well last night was my trigger shots (there were 2 for me) and I just absolutely cannot believe that tomorrow is our egg retrieval already! Since my last post I have had 3 appointments with our doctor. On Christmas Eve, I was given the last of the gonal-f to take through Christmas Day and another shot (Am I a bad patient if I don’t remember the name of it? It was in Korean and had to be mixed) then on the 27th I had my last ultrasound. The doctor is very concerned about OHSS because she said it looks like I will have 20, maybe even 30 eggs to be retrieved. She let me know she is planning on freezing them all and proceeding with a FET (frozen embryo transfer) for the end of January. I was prepared for this already from what I have read from others who have done IVF and been overstimulated, but I was still hoping for a fresh transfer. Although I think this will give me another month to prepare for baby, and it was looking like Alex wouldn’t be able to get off work to be there for the transfer had we been able to do a fresh transfer so maybe its a blessing in disguise?
The doctor and nurse let me know I will be in pain this weekend (so far no pain, just a little uncomfortable) because of the size of my ovaries. From what Ive read, after the egg retrieval is when people have pain from OHSS. As nice as the nurse is at the clinic, there is still a little bit of a language barrier. She gave me the option of local or general asthesia and while I was at the clinic, I told her I would like local because for some reason I wanted to be able to remember the moment and thought I could look back at my retrieval with fond memories, remembering the time when my eggs were extracted from my body? I don’t know why I thought it would be sweet. The nurse let me know it could be very painful because I have so many eggs to extract, but I said I could handle the pain. On my train ride home, I got to thinking why would I want to remember pain? I’m unsure exactly how painful it will be because they use the term “painful” for when things are uncomfortable also, so not knowing the level of pain I would be in made me change my mind and call her back to let her know I want less pain! So general asthetic it is! I’m curious what others experiences have been with choosing either local or general anesthsia? Anyone have recommendations?
As far as I can tell, my emotions have been pretty level(although my husband might be able to answer this more accurately). A couple of the days I was taking the gonal-f I was super tired and felt like Rip Van Winkle! I had no energy, and could have slept for a hundered years, but that has been the only side effect this far and for that I am thankful! I am really in awe at how quickly everything has moved since we decided to pursue IVF. I am so hopeful that God will open my womb and bless us with children this way, but I know that even if we aren’t successful, His plans are good for us. We are confident that we will be blessed with a children whether it be soon or years from now, through IVF, adoption, foster care or another way(I’m praying we will be able to have children through all of these avenues!). All we can do is put our trust in the Lord who is so worthy, who performs miracles!
“What god is so great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles” Psalm 77:13,14a