It's egg freezing day! The process is done and I'm feeling happy and sad at the same time.

I know it isn't a real surgery, but I think any procedure where you're put to sleep can be called that, right? So I'm calling it surgery. In true procrastinator form, I didn't get as ready as I could have today. I'll do the rest in the morning (hopefully I'll manage to wake up early).… Continue reading Sunday 2nd July – preparing for ‘surgery’

I do the last injection and stat preparing for (and stressing about) egg collection day

I'll start from the good news – had the last scan today and it was good. They can see 12 good sized follicles, which is a good number (or so they say). There are more follicles but they're smaller, so probably won't produce good enough eggs. This doesn't mean that I'll get 12 eggs, but… Continue reading Friday 30th June – last scan! More panic! Going crazy!

I finally manage to do the morning injection - hooray! Other than that, I just feel bloated and a bit weird. Hope all is well with those eggs!

I struggle with the morning injection, but don't worry - there's a twist!

I have an awful day full of injections and find the morning injection impossible to do by myself because I'm too weak!

I get home and do the very tricky morning injection. Then I do the evening injection. I feel like my life revolves around eggs and injections, and start to get sick of it.

I go for the third scan and get some complicated instructions on doing lots of injections

I do the sixth injection and think about the process and what it means to be sharing this blog