Sinking in...

All of this is starting to sink in and feel very real. Not that its a bad thing necessarily, but it does feel a lot more scary than it did a few months ago. 

Today I received more paper work now that we've been matched with a recipient. We've also set a date for the 2nd counselling appointment (required) and at this appointment we will be meeting the matched couple. 

I had always been open to meeting the recipient couple but to be honest was more comfortable with the idea of being anonymous. In saying this though, I can understand how important it may be for a recipient to meet the person donating genetic material! 

So, some of the paper work I got today was: 
Bloods screening forms for me and hubby (HIV, Hepatitis B,C, Syphilis)
A second health and lifestyle declaration form (gotta cover all their bases)
A consent form and a hard copy of the recipient's profile. 
The egg stimulation plan 
Oh, and a form for getting my GP to do high vaginal and Chlamydia swabs... nice... 

All of this needs to happen 1 month before my cycle commences... Still not sure when thats going to be, but they said that the recipient is not in a hurry and perhaps April/May might suit them better.  

The egg stimulation plan is quite interesting. I gave it to hubby to read- he really hadn't thought about how involved it would be and did see why I was so keen to do it before he started university again. 

It goes something like this:

Day 1: Phone clinic (first day of period), collect injection pack from clinic
Day 2: Commence daily Gonal F injection (300iu) every evening. To grow your eggs
Day 6: Commence daily Cetrotide injection every morning. To stop you ovulating. (first to happen at the clinic)
Day 8: Vaginal scan to count and measure the follicles in your ovaries. Blood test. 
Day 9 (onwards): Vaginal scan every 2-3 days at the clinic until your follicles measure 17-18mm
Trigger injection: Buserelin (at clinic)
Egg collection: 36 hours after the trigger injection. 

(Note at the bottom: please wear nana knickers and not a g string)

!!!

Phew

Not getting cold feet (have this deep desire to go through with it all) but feeling a little overwhelmed and a bit nervous. 

xJ