It took 4 years, 1 miscarriage, 2 cancelled IVFs, 1 failed FET and a whole team of specialists but, here we are. Pregnant. Our story of the transition between infertility to pregnancy and all the fun bits in-between
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
I did a good thing today!
I joined the Anthony Nolan bone marrow and blood platelet donor register. I send in a sample of my saliva so they can keep my biological information on file, then if someone is diagnosed with blood cancer and we're a match - I get a call and off I go to London to donate my platelets/marrow and it will be given to them on the hope of curing the cancer. Now I just got to wait to see if I'm a match to anyone. It feels good to do good things! You can also donate umbilical cord stem cells once you've given birth (like just after birth) and they are stored to provide a cure for a matching patient.
Nifty.
Apart from my good deed I'm doing good. We had a brilliant weekend away which is just what we needed to get refreshed and recovered from the past few weeks. AF kicked in fully on Saturday, it was one of the most painful AFs I've experienced. Enough for me to find a pharmacist to get some codeine to get me through the weekend. AF almost subsided now and I have my prescription to delay next AF so getting ready for FET at the start of April.
I had my first acupuncture session yesterday lunchtime and I'm going to go once a week until treatment, I'm not 100% sold on the idea of acupuncture and fertility, but I do know that I felt so relaxed and calm after the session and slept SO well. That's enough of a reason for me to keep going!
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Thats so awesome of you Steph. We are doing a hero &super hero day in aid of the anthony nolan trust next wednesday! Me and the girls on our team are dressing up as "land girls" as we feel they were the unsung heros of the 2nd world war.
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a good weekend away, it obviously did you good!
Bex xx