The Genuine BESH Palais. To misquote Carlsberg, we're probably the barrenest TTC-ers in the world...

[HesterShaw]

We are Barren. We are Evil, on account of having left procreating until our 30s. We are Selfish, thinking only of careers and money and cars and holidays. And lastly, we are Hags. Welcome to the BESH gin palace. Babydusters and instadiffers need not apply.

Hi frank! Did you bring back Hershey bars for everyone?

moll how do you think you would cope emotionally with a 6month pause? The MollKnoll looks very inspiring.

draf I can't remember what op you're having, sorry. How did the appointment go? When will you be back.on the bike?

I am surprisingly un-hungover and my ego is surprisingly un crushed by last night's sexual rejection. Onwards!

Thanks ladies.

moll that sounds like a plan and you know how much I like a plan. :)

draf you are hardcore, laydee!

Twink it's always nice to avoid a hangover.

New Yooooooooooooooooooooooooooork

Or as I prefer

"Newpooooooooort, concrete jumble nothing's in order, not far from the border, when you're in Newpooooooooort, cheese ans chips will make you feel brand new, washed down with some special brew, when you're in Newport, Newport, Newport."

Glad you had a nice time Frank

Oops, just watched the video. I got some of the lyrics wrong.

Evening hags!

Hurrah for near perfect foof if ouch for yanking euro.

Welcome back frank.

Not entirely sure when stabbing starts, it will be LP. I have my final and I am soooo through with it, stabbed for a week got the single follie that I produce every month IUI tomorrow. Usually that would mean droidal invasion in two weeks, onto the pill on day three and evil down-regging stabbing about two-three weeks later. Mizness is to do with the single egglet, although having an illegal shag with SB helped a little. And the bloody weather, can someone pass me some summer, please?

Wow moll considering a six months break for sorting out of Issues and Weight. That sounds brave. How would you feel about it? It might just give you a bit of head space too. I just hope mrMoll is ready to be sorted, as it sounds long a little overdue.

Loved the lyrics, even if wrong hessie. But I am thoroughly disturbed by your donkey-antics.

Hurrah for good scannage noks. But it sounds bloody awful to me. What a moron for getting the dates wrong, don't they understand how important these things are?!?

Hello Frank - glad you had a nice time!

Excellent singing, Hest.

A hiatus sounds like it could be a good plan, Moll. You are brave though - I feel like I'm stuck on this bandwagon and jumping off even for a short while seems impossible.

Pre-op went fine, though all these invasive tests render you incapable of normal interactions - the nurse said she needed to do swabs and it was AGES after throat-swabbing for MRSA that I twigged that that was all she'd meant, rather than foof-swabbing. Phlebotomist was a bit over-eager too, she stabbed the needle right through my vein and out the other side, she had to pull it back a really long way to get blood flow. I now have visions of the inside of my elbow filling up with blood Still, all systems go for laparoscopy next Wednesday. I wonder if (a) the cyst, and (b) the dilated tube are even still there. It seems crackers to do surgery now based on an ultrasound I had at Christmas.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!

That description brought tears to my eyes.

It didn't actually hurt much more than these things usually do, but they don't normally stab quite so deep. I was a bit taken aback given that she must spend hours doing it every day! No bruising (yet), though, so I seem to have got away with it :)

OUCH! There have been some very painful trips to the doctors recently!

Euro sorry to hear about your iffy results, but glad you've found a Dr that at least appears proactive.

Evil, I second the "ouch"

Moll, sounds like you are forming a plan.

God, that's long . Sorry!

Frank - sounds like you've well and truly given NY a thrashing. You packed a lot in there! BESH takes Manhatten..

Draff - fucking ow! I'm still wincing from Euro's foof-yanking! (And a bit from my own wounds)

Re my wagon-alighting plans, I reckon a 6-month break is exactly what's needed. We're in a place of great financial uncertainty, still living in a two-thirds finished home, BEs out of his tree and I've got 4 jobs on the go. I'm looking at my stable, employed, well-housed friends who have babies and they're struggling enough as it is. If I got diffed now (ha), i could only claim the measly self-employed person maternity pay, and BE is now freelance too, so he'd get diddly-all paternity. I think we might actually destroy ourselves physically mentally and financially if we don't pause and get some of our ducks in a row before embracing the remote possibility of baybee.

Ouch draf. You sound very stoic in the face of all that prodding and poking.

frank that sounds like an amazing trip. I am very jealous.

I was warned by the consultant to expect bleeding and iodine fallout from last night's antics. So far, not a drop. Do I have a secret storage compartment up there or something? Maybe that is where the spaff has been hiding, explaining lack of diffage. Still, I'm not complaining.

frank, that sounds amazing!

Arf at Euro's secret compartment!

A brown foof would sound gross, even if it wasn't.

Can't believe how ivf-y we are at the moment. We really must be the barrennest BESH ever.

When next droid turns up, i phone the clinic to start a frozen cycle. At least I won't have the faff of trying to co-ordinate with AMNH this time. I can just have a few nice day trips to Oxford at my own leisure.

You could go to the Covered Market and get Bens Cookies while you're there. Yum.

You don't seem like a cowbag x

Following from your post on that fred bugs - are any of you still taking folic acid daily like TTCers are meant to, or has everyone long since given up on that?

I haven't bothered since ivf, to be honest. Though I did plod on quite obediently beforehand.