Ah Vap this is the most wonderful news, absolutely thrilled for you. Keeping everything crossed for you that this is your time, and that this time next year you’re knee deep in shitty nappies!! 
Welcome home newleaf aaah, bet it’s good to be home. Sounds like you had a lovely Xmas. Top tip for parties, that I employed at my work Xmas do - glass of lime and soda, or indeed a tonic water (tastes like it could be something more interesting!) and most people will assume it’s a G&T. If everyone’s refilling glasses of bubbles, then, er, just hold one and be so amazingly effervescent and chatty that you’re too busy talking to be taking any sips. TBH I also have the epilepsy (and I’ve told a lot of people about IVF in any case) so I don’t tend to get quizzed, but the catchall of a general ‘I’m on some medication’ (don’t have to say antibiotics - although if you want to put nosy parkers off their stride a quip of ‘I’ve got a raging dose of the clap’ tends to work well!)
flat OMG yes the ‘oh I had a friend who had IVF and it worked for them / I went on holiday and stopped trying and got really drunk and boom! / I had a friend who went on the adoption list and got pregnant naturally’ - FFS. I’ve had them ALL. No, getting drunk / going on holiday isn’t going to magically make my oestrogen levels rise and my endometrial lining spontaneously thicken up by itself. But thanks for the advice. AAAARRGGHH.
Think we should send them all that link I posted a few days ago of ‘what (not) to say to people going through IVF’ (or infertility in general)!
Very sweet of you to think of me, thanks so much - we all have our shit to deal with, whether it’s losing a parent, miscarriages, or any one of the many missiles life decides to lob in our way! Bless you, thanks so much. Christmas was just DH and I battening down the hatches and nesting at home just us two. My Dad went over to Ibiza to stay with my brother and SIL who live out there - we were invited too, but as we were supposed to be in the 2ww and having OTD between Xmas and New Year, we didn’t really want to travel. Then when the cycle was postponed we decided we didn’t really want to scramble to get flights, as we rather liked the idea of a really quiet low key Xmas.
science Oh god, your brother gets the foot in mouth prize of the season - you poor thing, you’ve done amazingly amazingly well. And hope you and DH have had some time to recoup and recharge (as well as shag like rabbits now he’s got his mojo back - wish mine would!!). Awww I love the telescope, that’s a wonderful gift! Well I’m a massive geek so I’d bloody love that. I love it when you can see the ISS pass overhead and see it with the naked eye (we wave to the spacemen!) - deffo check it out with your whizzy new toy when there’s another pass over wherever in the country you are 
DH and I agreed not to do presents this year (haven’t really done them in a few years, we have far too much ‘stuff’ as it is!) but he did surprise me with a little cheeky one. When we were watching Gogglebox I saw someone wearing this epic pair of superman printed socks - that had little capes attached to the back! Well last time for Egg Collection day I got myself some ‘Let’s carpe the fuck out of this diem’ socks (because your feet get cold while your legs are slung up in the stirrups so you can keep your socks on) - thought I’d give the consultant a giggle while he was down the ‘business end’. Anyway DH got me those so I can be a superhero on EC or (hopefully!) ET day, which was so cute. He said he’d actually ordered them on his phone before the programme had even finished!!
AFM CD75 and just counting down the birth control pills till my appt on Monday. I’ve been willing away my precious Christmas break desperate to get to the day I go back to bloody work, as that’s when I see my consultant to see if we can get cracking. If the cycle gets derailed again I am going to go fucking ballistic and possibly ask for my ovaries to be surgically removed so I can belt them as far as away as possible with a five iron…!
Yet again for the third time in 4 months I’m tapering down my painkillers in anticipation of a possible transfer and 2ww in the coming weeks…I have to taper off my tramadol fairly slowly to avoid going into withdrawal, so of course I’m in quite a lot more pain as a result. If I find I’m tapering off for nothing as I have no fucking transfer I will properly lose my shit. Obviously it’s gonna be a hell of a lot more painful if I do get to the 2ww and even more so if I get a BFP and have months without my meds, but at least then it’s for a very real cause. So I’m grumpy as fuck because my NYE is being curled up on the sofa in pain, eating virtuously and not drinking, all for an IVF cycle that for all I know could end up getting derailed again (I’m now expecting things NOT to go ahead as planned, rather than to hope they might actually work out!)
Big hugs to you all- ho ho ho!! 