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Happy birthday DG!

OK, Well it was yesterday so this is belated, but Happy Birthday Drowned Girl! Yes, the old lady turned 42. I know you’re not meant to tell a lady’s age, but I know the info’s already out there and she won’t mind.

the countdown

There’s nothing much new to report. This post is purely brought on by the fact that today marks only 7 days left on the pill. I’m sure when things get going it will still seem like only 2 minutes ago we started this journey.

So… 7 days til we stop the pill, 10 days til baseline scans and injections begin and approx 22 days til Egg collection. hmmm maybe I should get some tickers…

A side project

As my lovely readers know, I’m currently at the start of an egg donation cycle. Living in the UK this is an altruistic cycle donating to a good friend to help her complete her family.

As all good 21st Century women do, we have found a lot of our information, throughout the process, by looking on the internet. For more personal views and insights you can’t go far wrong with blogs. There are various blog directories on infertility, ivf and miscarriage, but so far I have found none on egg donation, and so, I have come to put this to rights!

I intend the blog to be a constant work in progress, improving and uploading links to blogs and news stories relevant to egg donation. Its a little bit bare at present as I’ve just started but I’m getting there, and you’ll find there are already a few interesting news stories and new blogs I found today.

Sadly, I am not omnipresent so if you come across something that could perhaps live here happily amongst the information we already have, don’t be shy, send it to me!As I’d like this to be a community site in a way, the more people on board, reading and sening in links, the better the directory will become. So please, anyone who’s happy to add the directory to your blogroll for others to see, please do so, or even better mention it in a post and send others along.

Lets hope this is successful so when others find themselves facing this huge journey they won’t be alone. Here’s the link -  http://eggdonation.wordpress.com/

Oh wow!

I may be being dim and unable just to work out how to comment on this blog. But oh my H! Congratulations! I couldn’t be more happy for you. Lets just hope everything runs a little more smoothly from now on. Keep growing well little one!

Bless my dh

He has managed to take Thursday off work. Off his own back he offered to see if he could, and the man with the rota he say yes!

I try to never volunteer him to help out with any of the appointments as, as supportive as he is, it was my decision to help DG, and logistically its a much bigger deal for him to get time off work anyway. The only day I have asked asked him to get is egg collection day. As I’m very bad with medical things and don’t always react well to any form of anaesthesia (I get a bit on the weepy side). He has supported me through a few medical things over the years, and knows issues like getting the cannula out of my hand before i’m too aware they are there (capable of getting them out himself if necessary) and knows my weepyness is usually just a mixture of reaction to drugs and relief things are over so will know not to be too worried but just give me a hug. DG will be there with worries of her own about everything so DH being there knowing whats going on with me should help in that way too. Anyway, he’s spoken to work and they’ve been very understanding, and he said he’s told them he’ll be needing to take TWO days off in case I’m a bit sore the next day to be looking after the monsters alone. I told you he was a sweety!

So … back to Thursday. Not sure what the plan is yet but think he may stay at home with the kids. The scan isn’t such an issue as my little man loves to watch things like that. Its more the nurse consult. There’s going to be a lot of information being thrown around and I’m sure both DG and I want to make sure we’ve asked every question possible, so not having to contain a 4 yr old and 1 yr old will make all the difference. So thank you sweetheart!

more dreams

After yesterday’s marathon post I thought I’d should maybe pop back today on a lighter note. I dreamt last night that I was back working holiday camp entertainment and had to learn the Scooch ‘Flying the Flag’ routine (this year’s euro entry if you’re blessed not to know). Now as funny as this dream was I sincerely know I have no desire to be at one with the cheesy popsters. I wish them all the best in the World but I think over the years I did enough party dances to last me a lifetime. So that definitely puts paid to the ‘dreaming of pregnancy must mean I want to be pregnant’ thing!

tick tick tick…

waiting waiting waiting…

DG duly called the clinic at 9am this morning. They think at that time in the evening a call would have been from Mr R who isn’t in til 11am! (thats any minute now but days away at 9 this morning!). There was another nurse who might know whats going on but she’s in scans all morning.

They’ve promised to find out as soon as they can but I’m not sure either of us will have nails left by then!

Argh!

DG has a missed call from the clinic! They didn’t leave a message and of course everyone has now gone home! Do we have our answer? Have we got the go ahead? Can we freeze embies? Tune in same bat time, same bat channel! Well tomorrow morning anyway

Trying to make light of things to be honest. I know DG is now feeling very nervous, and I’m sure tonight will feel very long, but hopefully this time tomorrow we will finally know for sure and can start some proper excitement and planning

Still ticking along

Nothing to report again. DG has an appointment with her haemo next week and will be discussing everything so they can give their advise on what drugs they would like her to take and when. But, we still don’t have our yes. When one of us finally gets that call you’ll know. Just look out for the title title full of caps lock shouting WEYHEY!

Life is general seems quiet at the moment. DH is away this week and next on a course and the house seems very still once the kids are in bed. I’m quite a homebody though really and can amuse myself so , I’m coping.

I’ve even managed to get off my bum and make my second ever scrapbook page. I did my first at the start of the year so at this rate there will never be much to look at. The plan though is to chronicle our lives generally in one, and another for my family history. Both to be passed on at some point. I have always had an interest in family history, and when my last great grandparent died a week before our wedding I realised how much you take for granted having people around to ask questions and tell you about people who have gone before you. I want to make sure that I can take as much as I can from the family I have left (which is actually quite a lot!) and put it all in a form that we can look through in years to come and smile.

My greatest wish at the moment of course is that there will be another page or two to add to my books. Pages that will show the smiling faces of our newly joined families. A little hand clutching DG’s. If this baby could be made from hope alone it would have arrived well before now