Ladies, it was so horrible today, please help me deal with it. It was our second and probably last round of ivf and we were surprised and delighted to get an embryo for transfer.
The clinic has a lot going for it - convenient, very slickly run, nurses are lovely, high success rates, several of the doctors are lovely. But the main Dr, whilst a leading expert, has absolutely no bedside manor. I knew this to an extent, but not just how bad it was, and today has left me so upset.
He didn't bother to say hello before thy the procedure, and didn't talk at all during it. But worse was how he kept on grabbing at the scanner the nurse was using on my tummy. It felt like quite a violent procedure as his wrist/arm kept hitting me in the pubic area and I couldn't stop shaking and crying.
The worst thing is i'm really upset about it and I'm worried it will affect our chances of success.
It isn't the first time he has upset me. The nurses are lovely, and just say that is how he is, that he scans women all the time and just forgets you might feel vulnerable with your legs in stirrups, but he's a leading specialist ffs and his lack of basic manors has now really got to me and today was so horrible.
Katy