I’ve had the worst luck with public transport all day! Waited for the bus for ages and then of course four buses came at once, and as usual in this kind of situation I chose the wrong one to get on to, which then broke down (!) and I had to walk the rest of the way to the tube. This was after being stuck in loads of traffic and watching all the other buses go by… Oh well. In the end I was 5 minutes early for the scan, which for me is kind of late…
I met the first nurse again, who is very nice and seems quite young. I asked her if I could take a photo of the screen as she did the scan and she agreed and even printed me a lovely photo of my eggs! Now I can have a photo of me and my eggs for the blog. We also chatted a bit about me writing this and about why I’m doing the freezing and all. Hopefully she didn’t think I’m the weirdest person ever…
The second nurse today was one who I’d never met. She said that I need to start the 2nd injection “this morning”. However, I had to go to work after the appointment, so would not be home until tonight!!! Aaaahhhh panic! This kind of messed up the order that I should take the drugs. So they want me to take the morning one as soon as I get home, then after 2-3 hours take the usual evening one, then tomorrow morning take the morning one again, then again the morning one in the afternoon, and then the evening one as usual. Confused yet? Me too. Especially as my brain does not function. Luckily she wrote it all down for me. I’ll take a photo of this. On Wednesday morning I have to take the morning injection again and then come for another scan. Anyway, I’m freaking out… Will need to quickly go home after my second lesson and inject. Then inject again and again and again.. what a nightmare. And I’m scared of this second injection – she showed me how to do it again, but I know that it always looks easy when they do it, but then when I try it it’s not easy at all. More on this tonight…
I also asked the second nurse what normal and good number of follicles are – for example, if I was a healthy and much younger woman, could I expect to have 30 eggs in one go? So apparently no. She said about 15 is a good number. At the moment I have 8 on one side and 9 on the other (so 17??), but lots of them are too small and probably won’t grow. So maybe 10 now. Seems like every time I lose one! My poor babies… haha
The injection that I’m starting today basically stops the eggs from ‘running away’, so now of course I’m worried that they may do just that, because I won’t be home till much later. Really I should have brought the bloody thing with me (it doesn’t have to be kept in the fridge), and the nurse could have shown me how to do it. But I didn’t, so please don’t run away – hang in there, little guys (girls?)!!! I’ll do it ASAP and keep you all inside! Just a few more hours now!!
Here is a beautiful photo of the screen that I took while the nurse was measuring, and the lovely picture that she printed for me:
Me and my eggs 