Deck your halls & dress your trees, the BESH are gifting BFPs

[WinklyVersusTheZombies]

Doff your top hats, lean on your canes, 'tis a Victorian Christmas for the BESH. Baste those turkeys in Victoria & Albert style, and maintain a stiff upper lip when you fill in the BESHtionnaire to see if you are cynical stoic enough to win a Baybee.

[ArielTheBahHumbugMermaid]

We're not remotely near anywhere else. It's 40 miles to the hospital I'm at and over two hours to the next one. There are many many drawbacks to living at the arse end of nowhere despite the nice fucking beaches.

[maamalady]

Such an inconvenient circumstance sounds most distressing, rie. Please accept my sympathies.

Today I was most pleased to discover on standing upon the weighing scale that my vast bulk now measures precisely 30.0 on the Index. This is rather a comfort, suggesting as it does that it may indeed be possible to score Less Than said value in the new year, despite the upcoming festivities and associated large repast.

Bugs, the close monitoring sounds as if it is allowing your situation to be carefully handled - I shall continue to hope for your desired outcome!

[maamalady]

Oh, and FUCK RIGHT OFF to HOTB's childhood friend and his wife. They always send sickening look-at-us-we're-so-bohemian Christmas cards and this year is no exception, except that this year it's signed from "X, Y, and a very large bump!". Signing from a bump makes me ragey enough as it is, do they really have to point out the size? FFS. As if I haven't been teary enough this week. WIBU to rip it into tiny tiny pieces and then chuck it in the recycling already?

[ArielTheBahHumbugMermaid]

YANBU.

[OComeAllYeFaithBaby]

We have received cards to us and 'the bump' but one aside to inform the in their 50s so no chance of upsetting them neighbours we have not signed from it. Especially childless couples or singletons!

rie that is in the realms of pantaloons. I doubt very much they planned to inform you in a timely manner.

bugs here's hoping the follicle is a lucky one!

[ArielTheBahHumbugMermaid]

DID YOU NOT HEAR ME? I AM DEVASTATED

I put something in Chat about the shitty shitty shitty year I have had and only one person answered. There are too many other threads about Christmas puddings and shopping and stuff. I have a headache from the screaming fit I just had into the duvet. My family is mad. My husband is being a dick. And I am barren. And I got all prepared for a treatment which has JUST BEEN CANCELLED. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[JethroTull]

Rie it's shit shit shit. What have they said will happen next? What is your husband doing or not doing to be a dick? < passes Cod & Sturgeon>.

[ArielTheBahHumbugMermaid]

Oh the still unresolved stuff about insisting on visiting his entire extended family at the the pregnant SIL's house when their parents are all there, even though we were supposed to be having a quiet Christmas. They know about the AC, but they appear to think that we told them for our own amusement rather than telling them because we want some love and understanding from them. He keeps telling me how offended his mother will be if I don't go, even though he has said that he will deal with the offence (so why keep telling me then?) I know what his "dealing with" entails and that's placating and making the mad cow feel as though she is in the right. And he's reluctantly accepted that I am not going to do this, but he will anyway, leaving me either a) on my own at home or b) at my parents' house which is increasingly not an option. So I have decided to go to my sister's when he's up there, but this means going to their house in their car with their toddler, and the cat in her basket, and now he keeps saying how uneasy this makes him, because the cat will be scared if she goes in someone else's car ( even though I will fucking well be there ) and say the nephew cries and damages her ears? Have you honestly ever heard anything so bizarre?I texted him about the cycle cancellation and he didn't even answer, but just phoned me now and went on for ten minutes about some amazing trade discount that he's managed to get. At the end of the conversation he said "So the consultant's ill?" so he DID get the text. Am I just being sensitive? i don't think I am. I am just surrounded by madness at the moment.

[EuroShagmore]

Alcohol is the answer, whatever the question was. And after a few, who the fvk cares what it was?

Sorry that was very ungentlemanly. How about this: Happy Imbibing.

[ArielTheBahHumbugMermaid]

:)

Fanks BESH

[FrankelcenseAndMyhrr]

Oh Rie and for you. Men can be useless at times, I think they just like to stick their heads in the sand and pretend the "hard" stuff just isn't happening.

On the subject of signing cards from "bumps", my friend's daughter was sending Christmas cards last year from her, husband and bump, even though she was only 4 months diffed . She then graduated to signing birthday cards using the unborn child's chosen name from 6 months. Double

[JethroTull]

Will your sister look after you Rie? Will she make you cups of tea and let you stay in bed late?

[WinklyVersusTheZombies]

Ah rie, I know we don't do hugs here so I'm not (()) sneaking one in, honest. You have had a spectacularly shitty year :(

[ArielTheBahHumbugMermaid]

My friend just came round with her two badly behaved very cute children and they whirled through the house like a very noisy dervish. Took my mind off things nicely.

He has come home and says in January he will "kick some ass" with the clinic. So that's reassuring :) But yes, they do need to get a locum in if this is a long term thing. They can't just cancel everyone's treatment. And there will be others in the same boat as me, albeit it without the mental family.

[Northey]

Oh my God, rie. What a spectacularly shit set of circumstances. Why is mrA/men in general so utterly crap sometimes? Was it Victorian time when we shipped all our convicts off to Oz? He needs shaking till his teeth rattle. As does the clinic head, who is allowing stuff to be cancelled. Unbelievable.

[lovesLemonDrizzleCake]

JEEEZUUSSSSS sorry faif I cannot believe how the shitshower is continuing on you aries. Thinking of you. Not much else to say except to add my whale of a punching bag to the assorted fishies, because somewhere to get rid of the (absolutely not unreasonable) anger might be useful!

[lovesLemonDrizzleCake]

I bid you gentlemen good evening, as my previous scibent missile was beyond the style of this highly polished and educated conversation. I wonder whether we can ship our good gentlemen's marital friends to a place of further development so as to become better equipped to deal with life's trials and tribulations through the fine art of listening and comprehension...

[lovesLemonDrizzleCake]

Besides and beyond my previous epistle I would heartily congratulate Mrdraff for his efforts at the weighing scales. Although I am forced to admit my shock and horror at the thought of loosing mass being desirable. Surely, it is truth universally acknowledged that the best gentlemen are endowed with sizeable physical appearances and one of the advantages of the festive season is the opportune number and quality of the feasts one is expected to partake in.

[SinkyMalinks]

Tough times Rie. GHJ does the same with clinic fuck ups. He gives a cursory nod in acknowledgement. But, to be fair, when needed (perhaps a little later than I'd like) he gets his rage on and sorts everything out (that I've been totally unable to do in the months preceeding). Any likely hood mr rie is going to launch into action?

On nights. Still.

Appointment tomorrow 9am. I'm not excited. I feel sick.

[EuroShagmore]

To add to the fred wankishess today, droid just arrived.



On to cycle 27.

[EuroShagmore]

Oh, and my next period is probably going to come on my birthday.

My first period that marked the failure of our first actively ttcing cycle arrived on my birthday two years ago. It would have a nice symmetry if it happened again, dontcha think?

[Northey]

Commiserations, eu. The cycle after this one is natural ivf, no?

rie, how are you feeling now?

[JethroTull]

My dear fellows I had some news today that we should all digest and perchance find some solace in. A dear friend has but one child, he was much longed for and somewhat of a miracle. She has always hoped for another but alas was unable for 6 long years. Until this month!

Victoriana aside, she's been trying since her son was 18 months, he's almost 7 now. She had finally got her husband to agree to get a jizz test & found out when she was having a dildocam done prior to being prescribed Colmid. Brought tears to my eyes when she told me.

Day 6 of stabbing. I feel fine. A bit hot but fine.

[maamalady]

Oh, euro, that is crappy. In the last twelve months I've had droids arrive on Christmas Eve, Mother's Day, and Father's Day - but thankfully not my birthday. Fingers crossed 2013 is better for all.

Jeff, that is lovely news :)

I'm going for an ultrasound tomorrow afternoon to check on my cysts. I wonder if the big one has changed and if all the tiny ones have done anything. I have no clue about these things