Here we go!

We were asked to come in this morning between 8am and 9.30am for bloods and base line scan. We arrived at 8.15am and the waiting room was already full! I can see this being an ongoing nightmare.

I was called in fairly soon to have my bloods taken, by a very abrupt and rather short nurse (in temperament, not stature) and then asked to take a seat in the waiting room for the scan. It was around 45mins later when they finally called my name.

Off I went to the scan room with my hospital issued maternity pad in between my legs as I'd had to remove my tampon. We were welcomed by another rather abrupt nurse, however they have a pile of patients and only a handful of hours to get through everyone...and it was 30c outside so they probably weren't in the best of moods. Anyway, the dildo cam was prepared in the usual fashion and she showed us where my left and right ovaries were and how they were doing. 

She said I had "a really good number" of potential follicles, with 12 black sacs on my right and an uncountable number on the left. She stressed they may not all respond, but she was impressed by how many potential follies I had. 

Next she checked my endometrium, and asked if I was bleeding heavily and was today heavier than yesterday? I explained the first two days usually are heavier, but I was still using regular tampons so it wasnt too heavy. 

She said the lining was thicker than they would normally like, but if my hormone levels were ok there would be no problem. No idea what causes thick lining, if it will be a problem, or if its just a side effect of slightly extended 33 days cycles...? She left the room and returned with our large bag of drugs which had been kept in the fridge at the clinic as the pharmacy was closed. 

Then we left at around 9.30am with the long wait until 2pm when we could ring to get our results. Remember my hormone levels had to be fine for us to actually go ahead with the treatment. We called the results line at 2.30pm and a lovely cheery nurse took all my details and chirped "we would like you to start on 150mg of Gonal-f for five days, then on Thursday start with your Cetritide injections, we'd like you to come back in in a week"

That was that. We are good to go. I'm already for my first injection in the morning...

Here goes nothing ladies and gents ....

P.s. Martin has asked me to share our leaving the hospital story - upon quickly retreating from the clinic with my bag full of drugs and worries around bloods and what would happen next, I forgot that I had removed the hospital issues mattress I was wearing between my legs, and was now back in my lovely white underwear, in a nice summer dress, on the second heaviest day of my period, with no protection! Eeeek! We were nowhere near a bathroom and already heading home...therefore there was only one thing left for me to do. Put my feet up on the dashboard, fishing in my bag and putting a tampon in there in the car. Not the most glamorous of dignified of things to do, however I had also just had a peice of electrical equipment wearing a condom in my nether regions.