Don't blame you wanting to avoid it for a while longer duggs, sometimes ignorance is bliss (and I can't believe I said that - me who has to know every step of the way what's going on!). But I completely understand you wanting to wait this time.
mel Good to hear you had the procedure, hope you're feeling a bit better today. When do you get the results?
pebbles Sounding great right now, really hoping this is the one that works out well for you. Can I offer a couple of tips on the clexane, as one who bruised to hell and back again (and yes, I had a couple of lumps too) - I still have dark marks where some of my worst bruises were, and they were from, what, 3 months ago? Personally I eventually hit on transferring my clexane into a new syringe with a much finer needle, which I found helped tremendously, but I understand not everyone wants to do that. However, even without doing that, I was advised (after I'd had the huge bruises!) to just gently stretch the skin (do NOT grab a chunk of skin to inject into, as all the online sites seem to say) before injecting at a 45 degree angle and inject sloooooowly. Leave the needle in for a count of 10 before pulling it out. I also iced the skin for a good 5 mins beforehand (before I started using finer needles) and then again for a good 20 minutes afterwards - well, I say 'ice', it was actually a whole load of frozen peas in a food bag, wrapped in a teatowel! Oh the glamour :) But I found peas less lumpy and no sharp angles like you get with ice. After doing this I only ever got very small bruises, if any at all - quite a few just didn't bruise.
I should say that I bruise very easily anyway, even without the aspirin, but aspirin and clexane really make bruising much worse. Ironic, really.
sue hope you have a great break, and brown sympathies for the torture of the 2ww.
choccy you still out there? how are you doing?
/waves to everyone