Fertility Appointments and Beyond: Electric Boogaloo

Transfer booked for Wednesday! Glad I’ve got a few days to recover from the collection. No chance I could have gone in tomorrow. The bloating is unreal!

@thislittlebird everything crossed its not the start, the people demans mocks not cocks! (Hopefully that makes you smile a bit) x

@99pctpractice oh I’m so sorry about your friend. One of our friends who just turned 40 was diagnosed with bowel cancer not too long ago. The best case scenario is 5 years so it’s very upsetting.

@thislittlebird im sorry, really really hope it’s just a tiny bit of spotting and not AF. It’s just really shit to have to go through this over and over again. Lots of love X

Oh @99pctpractice I'm so sorry. I hope your friend is as comfortable as they can be. Sending you lots of love and hugs x x x Haha I havent had any cocks today but we went for lunch and I had a LARGE glass of red 😊 not quite what the doctor ordered but it was gooood.

@thislittlebird I saw that too. So many feelings of being pleased for her but always that feeling of just not really getting any closer myself. It's been a bit of a sad day today, as I found out that an old friend was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer 😔 I thought jt was bad, but then googled the prognosis and it's really bad. He only found out a week ago....so I just feel a bit heartbroken all around.

So easy to read everything and nothing into the symptoms or absence of them - I found the sore boobs from cyclogest and pals really disconcerting during my last 2ww! Really hoping that you don't need to go private and this is your transfer 🤞🤞 big congratulations on the new job - hopefully the first of a series of good news!!!!

@beckyCarlos hope you're doing ok - and enjoying those cocks before you move to mocks...!

@Tinkerbell098 woot woot! Great that you got 5 eggs and that they fertilised, that's wonderful. Fingers crossed for the next update !!

@thislittlebird mocks not cocks 🤣🤣🤣 I'm dead. Thats the best thing I've read all day! Coffee Culture is a cute cafe near the Minster, Fossgate is well worth a walk and ends at an entrance to the walls so you're not just wasting a walk around town, the Gatehouse coffee shop at the end is good too 😍

@tinkerbell098 haha ours is shedding like mad at the minute!

@thislittlebird ooh that looks nice good location too! Museum gardens is really nice on a nice day, and you're right by the Minster and loads of nice pubs and cafes (its a bit odd to say that because York is full of them but still). I was trying to remember the Novotel as an affordable option but a) couldn't remember and b) sounds like its not really anyway 🤣

@beckyCarlos happy birthday to your fur baby! Aww I’m sure he loved his breakfast. Lol at your spare room. Ours is currently taken up by our fur baby 😂😂 he loves to sit on the spare bed and guard at night (the bed is against the front window). He sheds like crazy so don’t think anyone would want to sleep there.

@thislittlebird yey for York! It’s great to have something to look forward to.

@thislittlebird yes I think about 8dpt, I just got so freaked out about the cramps I was like a crazy person, I HAD to know. I've never stayed in York (live too close) but friends have stayed in the Guy Fawkes which is nice (and I dont think too expensive).

@kay00 woof thats a big number! Your poor ovaries! Glad the clinic are being sensible and responsive, fingers crossed it goes well 😊 poor Margaret, how is she this morning? Im in awe of your spare room being ready for visitors, my spare bed is under what looks like all of our clothes.

@tinkerbell098 thats amazing! What a relief. You can relax and enjoy your weekend a bit more now 😊

My fur baby is 5 today, not quite sure where that time has gone (thanks covid and fertility) but I'm just off to the pet shop to get him lots of treats and a new toy or two 😍 he had scrambled egg for breakfast, and we're going on a long wood walk tomorrow (weather isnt looking great today and he doesnt like to get wet away from the house, at home he'll lie outside in a downpour lol)

@Kay00 hope the new dose would work well. Good luck with stimming! Do you do the injections yourself?

update from me- all 5 collected have been fertilised! I was in tears as was so anxious this morning waiting for the call. Fingers crossed they make it all the way!

Just reading through the messages and Wow, what a roller coaster of a few days ladies!

Firstly, I'm super sorry you had no eggs retrieved @beckyCarlos 😞. You are being so incredibly brave xx I love that you are positively looking forward to your next steps xx

@Tinkerbell098 5 is excellent, fingers crossed the you get a decent number fertilised tomorrow too 🤞

@thislittlebird congrats on the job!! Exciting!! A holiday in York sounds lovely. I've never been but heard great things.

I had my baseline scan today. 16 follicles on one side and 17 on the other. It's a lot (not a good thing). So we're reducing my stims dose from day 4 to try and reduce the number of eggs (and hopefully increase the quality). I start my injections tomorrow evening.

In other news, my elderly neighbour Margaret had a panic attack tonight and was scared someone was in her house, so now she's sleeping in my spare room... I hope it doesn't become a regular thing 😬

@thislittlebird I'm the opposite 🤣 my veins 'roll', I'm hard to stick, and I once watched blood drip, literally drip, out, barely filling the piddly vial they were using. I get awful boob pain without fail every cycle...apart from my positive. Like you sat, no rhyme or reason! I had my transfer on a Saturday and I think I tested the following Sunday because I had period like cramps (and somehow only then did I realise that that would be when my period was due, I assumed it'd be due on OTD, this was very naive...) and I got overwhelmed with this feeling that I needed to know if the cramps were a period and I should just cry, or if they were anything else.

@beckyCarlos thanks! Yes it worked the very next morning and I only used a cheapie. Faint, but it was an obvious clear line.