Almost Scan time

Evening Blog readers, 

I’m just listening to The Smiths after having my 10pm Jab, I really don’t like them and it’s hurts and makes me feel really sick straightaway, but my Husband is really good to me and humours me so much when I whinge at him, one of my mates said to me that I can whinge at him anytime-Thanks Trevor! 

I’m trying to be strong and still update this journey with my friends and family and now a wider audience (that’s the wrong words), from our small bubble in Leeds, our clinic are brilliant and we are going to have a scan tomorrow to see what the next step is, and hopefully next week we will have egg collection if it all goes to plan, so more plans afoot and hopefully news over the next few weeks, I’m not sure what I will do if we get a positive result, as I should wait til the 12 weeks but I might be bursting to say something, we will see what’s happens ...here’s hoping 

....til tomorrow 

TTFN 

S xxx

Stims til January

Hi Blog readers, 

Boxing Day and ready for the next stage, and We have been brave and done the next injections with mixing the powders and taking it, straight away making me feel nauseous, so off to lie down and watch my latest drama/comedy, I’m so emotional and not doing so well on the drugs, but they are taken at evening time so I have still seen my friends and family over the Christmas Holidays, my mum was brave and did one of them , go mum! My family is starting to come on board and understand what this means to me and James, We have moved on a few days now and am taking the 9pm drug in my stride as It makes me feel so 🤢! But James is being kind and making me laugh a lot, and Booked my and mum Strictly Tickets and bought me spin up subscription, and I saw my old friends and their children and husbands, and a couple of surprise visitors, which made me very happy! We have spent some time with new friends and lovely aunties and played silly games , which has made us try and relax , I have bought some beautiful cards to help me too, I’m off to find some comedy and lie down

TTFN 

Sarah 

Starting now ....

Hi Dolly fans , 

Thanks  for reading the blog I have been to the hospital yesterday to start my injections this will continue until the new year and then I will have another scan and then fingers crossed it will go according to plan the injections are not nice they are horrible. James is  being super kind and helping me with them and we did the first one yesterday I have been trying to update a few of my friends and have been saying I will be updating the blog so here it is. The nursing staff at Seacroft a really really nice and chatted to me about what’s the injections are about and also did I like testing thing you know where the show me what to do I came home and then we decided we were going to put them to the injection about 630 so now so now we do that every day until Boxing Day and then we do double injections from boxing day Til 3 Jan, so intense that this time of year but never mind it will have a good outcome I hope! Decided to come off the support groups because I just felt that they were not a supportive of me this is why I have started my blog because I want to people to understand what it is like to go to IVF. This is quite lonely process with you and your partner because people who just conceive naturally don’t really understand, they try but don’t always, it is a really tricky subject and I try to explain that I have a lot of scans and lots of invasive procedures and people don’t really get it so I’m trying to help people by writing this blog! Anyway 1St Injection over and I was brave, ok I cried like a baby! 

Speak soon 

S xx

Bit more further forward

So here I am again, thank you for reading this guys , It means a lot, I haven’t posted a lot as I hadn’t got anything to say yet, as We had a slight delay in starting treatment, as we were waiting for my period, and this has arrived almost 4 weeks late, so added drama of thinking there was a small chance of being pregnant, but We been brave and done our first injection, my husband James was very skilled and it didn’t even hurt although I did numb with a trusted pack of frozen peas! And now we have 4 weeks of down regulation until another scan, hopefully  there won’t have too many side effects, and we will be just looking forward to Christmas, and the next year and all the excitement!  Today I visited Le Keux salon where there were attempted a Victory Roll Race and a Vintage Fun Day which was to help fund a couple for IVF so a cause I believe in.  Thank you for reading and for the comments I get from my friends and Facebook peeps😘😍🤜🏻👩🏻👶

More scans and a start date

Hello all, 

Sorry there has been a delay in posting, I had an exam and life just got in the way, so last time I was going for a scan, well I went for an another and the cyst they were looking at, has gone down and they (the clinic) after a bit of debate -another story but although I’m doing this blog I think it is a bit too personal , I am to have some medication and then at the end Of October I can start my Prostap, I have a plan in my head to do the injections and asked my friend to help me, and James of course with meditation and relaxing music!!! Might try Reflexology too! 

We attended a open evening at the clinic to have a talk about risks and side effects and actually process and saw that there are a lot of couples and single people going for IVF, I have spoken to the nurse about my blog and our journey and Have joined an support group, so positives all round and hopefully we will have a great result, but all quiet here until 30/31 October , eek exciting! 

TTFN

Dolly xx

(Backup) Building up to it!

This week as A wanton distraction We has a comedy night out to see The Horne Section, and we laughed ourselves silly and there were potatoes involved....yeah weird! We have been spending a lot of time talking about the needles and not pushing pressure on each other and I have been trying not to cry -I do that a lot! We have been spending time with our friends having a good time at a couple of parties, We are off to Seacroft today for a -pre-stimulation scan to hopefully start the injections and that is what we have been building up to, I hate needles, And James is going to super brave and do them for me. 

We are also going to a new patient evening to learn all about the procedure and join a Fertility group, see all fingers crossed and I will update you soon 

TTFN 

Dolly x

Scan Time

Today was a weird day , off to Seacroft again for a scan to check the follicles and see the lovely nurse, I was so excited and also so nervous to learn how to do the injections, my lovely dad went with me in the car and I felt a bit odd going through all those corridors, and feel unsure and trying to how empathy for all the other couples going through the same ordeal/journey as we are. The sonographer was lovely too, and said they seen a big cyst and that they want to monitor this, but that shouldn’t delay the treatment, so a couple of quiet weeks and back again early October, which is close too, eek! We have been invited to a new patients night to meet other couples and talk about all the details, hopefully that James won’t be too squeamish. After the appointment I seemed to be down as though it didn’t go well, I think that emotions are high, I was shown how to do the injection so it seems to be progressing in the right direction

I have had lots of messages , so many kind chats in person and on Facebook, Thank you everyone, It means a lot to us! 

TTFN 

Dolly xx