The drug talk

Had an appt with the doctor and nurse today. Saw the doctor for a vaginal ultrasound and some swabs (apparently my uterus is beautiful!) and the nurse for the drug talk. 

Sounds ominous... it wasn't. Unless of course, you are scared of injections then yes, very ominous! 

We pretty much went through the daily injections that I will need to give myself once my cycle has started. Its a very very thin needle on a very cool looking pen contraption and you inject it into the fat around your middle. Thankfully I have plenty of that! Knew it would come in handy one day! 

I'm a little overwhelmed by how intensive it all seems at the moment and am still fussing over how its all going to work with the kids/hubby/family. One really good thing that came out of today is that I got some things clarified. 

• They will collect anywhere between 1 and 30 follicles from me. Typically its about 9. They will then get fertilized, 1 will be inserted into the recipient and any others which have developed will be frozen
• Vaginal scans (to check the progress of the growth of my follicles) are all of 5 mins. So taking the kids and someone else with me is a viable option. 
• For the egg collection, I will be at the clinic for 1-2 hours. The actual egg collection part is 10 mins max. 
• Timing is all important. So when they say that the egg collection will occur 36 hours after the trigger injection, they mean it. 

So now we wait for my period... which is likely to be in about 10-12 days. Then it all starts!

xJ