....and the result is...?

So AF arrived yesterday, the bright red flow we all know and hate. Come lunch time it had sort of...disappeared, which was odd. There was a small continuous flow throughout the day and I went to bed last night still not convinced I'd done the right thing by making our appointment for today.

Got up bright and early and left he house at 6.45am to set off for the hospital, arriving at 7.30am and being the third in line for the 8am rush. At 8.05 we were called in so my blood could be taken, and surprisingly almost immediately asked to go to the scan room. I wriggled myself onto the chair and let he lady with the dildo cam do her work. She said the "...endometrium is a little thicker than we would like" but my left and right ovaries are "perfect" and as long as my hormone levels came back right we could start, but she suspected we might need to come back the next morning due to the slow starting of AF.

This wasn't the news we wanted to heard, my manager has been FANTASTIC but I didn't want to take the piss and ask for two mornings off in quick succession. Along with this Martin was promoted to Assisstant Manager at work and has only been in the role since Monday, they know about IVF but he wants to try and limit the time taken out of work. We left the clinic at 8.20am (record time!) and went to collect out prescription. Oh while we're talking about prescriptions, the technician who performed the scan checked our notes and saw we had previously started IVF and demanded to know what we had left over. Er, sorry, that was 8 months ago and I don't really remember exactly what boxes I still have, what has gone missing and what is now past date...so I said "I'm not sure. If it's OK I'd rather pay for the full prescription rather than guess at what we have at home?"

"WELL! You do have over £800 worth of drugs here, we'd rather you didn't just take them just incase! You will have to pay for them.....assuming you pay for your prescriptions!"

Firstly, technician lady, are you implying I'm under 19 and still in full time educated so get free prescriptions, OR that I am eligible for multiple benefits so get them free?! What a conclusion to jump to when a young couple walk into your room. Yes I will be paying for my £800 worth of drugs whether you like it or not, so shove that in your pipe and smoke it!

Anyway....picked up our bag off drugs and I headed home to place it all in the fridge. AF still a bit on and off but more here than she was yesterday.

2pm rolls around and obviously, once I'd plucked up the courage to call the results line, it's engaged. So after 7 mins of olaying cat and mouse with the answer phone I finally get through and WE'RE GOOD TO GO!!! So my hormones must be perfect, despite what my period is doing!

For the next 4 days I will be injecting 150mg if Gonal-F and on Monday that will be joined by my certrotide. Thursday 6th February will be our next scan to see how many eggs we've grown!

Here we go again...!