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Well the gonal F is rampaging through my system now and I’m about ready for meltdown.  I hate this time of the cycle.  Will likely have first ultrasound Friday or Saturday.  We are hoping for egg retrieval on Tuesday, but … Continue reading →

I’m still forty and I still have awesome diamond earrings.  I also had a fairly reasonable hangover on Sunday morning (must have been that goblet of champagne I kept refilling, or the fact I only got 3hrs sleep…) and as … Continue reading →

So, today I woke up and I was forty. I kind of imagined (like, years ago, when I was, say, thirty) I’d have had a couple of kids by the morning I woke up and was forty, and that they … Continue reading →

Yep, no flies on me.  Period never came, had blood test, decided I was just about to ovulate, waited a couple of days and then began a long down-reg on May 3rd.  Lucrin until the cows come home.  Well, three … Continue reading →

Not really much to report except to say that I am ok.  I haven’t collapsed in a heap, I’m feeling fine, and I’m getting on with things.  Mainly with tidying up and organising stuff for my upcoming party.  And gardening. … Continue reading →

Sorry for the delay on an update.  No internet connection available where I was staying.  I’ll jump straight into the bad news I’ve kept you waiting for: Day 12 E2 levels for donor were 25,800 (yes, twenty five thousand eight … Continue reading →

Sigh.  Starting this cycle from deep in the countryside, we were not as heavily monitored as city folk would be.  Throw in Easter and all those days that doctors offices are shut and post offices don’t run services (therefore tricky … Continue reading →

If you are counting, you’ll discover a discrepancy of a day between now and the Day One post.  This is because Day One was day one of drugs, not of the cycle itself.  As we move into the cycle, it … Continue reading →

Yesterday I had my first headache.  And I’ve already begun to be weepy.  I’m always amazed at how quickly those hormones get to work on my mood.  I felt like having a little cry at the end of yoga last … Continue reading →

Well it is only four hours away in my part of the world, truth be told.  But anyhoo.  I digress already.  Terrible habit. What I was wanting to say was this: DE IVF cycle is upon us.  Yes, already! Today … Continue reading →