ahhh...the med's have started!

Things this morning went really smoothly...yippee for that.

As luck (??) would have it one of my friends also needed to go into the city this morning so we got to travel in together and at least make the journey a catch up as well as the "must do". We dropped E at school (on time and everything lol) and then off we went.

I must say, at this stage, how much i love the transit lanes on the Eastern...they really do make the journey quicker!

Anyway..in...park at my sneaky spot in the Macca's car park...across the road and into the chemist...yippeee...my drugs there and ready!

Off to wait for the nurse...they were great and I only had to wait 5 minutes. Th nurse was good (had crazy makeup though...wayyyyyy too much lol) and i have all the info I need. We did my first nasal spray together...and i hated it! I would prefer extra needles to be honest...but when compared to the naturopath tonics they are not too bad!

So....my program is....

nasal spray 2 times each day...12 hours apart from now till they say stop.
tomorrow i start on 150IU of puregon each day.

I do this until my 1st scan which is on Tuesday 11th August.

I'll get told what changes to make on that day...and will be given a better indication of when Egg Collection will be

After that it was upstairs to make my scan appointment. My doc will be away (eekkk) but i will be meeting the doc who will be doing my collection and transfer on Tuesday when she does my scan. I hope she is nice...they promise me she is....so fingers crossed.

The start is rocky...hopefully smooth sailing from here!

So, I waited till 2.30 for my call back from the nurse to go through my cycle and confirm my med pick up...no call...

left a 2nd message...waited till 4.45 ...no call....

called again...and spoke to the receptionist...she tried to put me through...call got bounced back....

she wanted to leave it till tomorrow...i said no...i have to start med's tomorrow, so i need to make sure my med's will be at ringwood in the morning....

on hold...she came back..again tried to fob me off....

i refused...said i was not getting off the phone until i spoke with a nurse...more hold...another attempted fob off...this time i asked for a manager (glad i had my calm head on lol)....

so finally through to the manager of the IVF nurses...it was all very confusing because they had only half done my record...so i was on phone with her for about 20 mins trying to get it all fixed up...she actually thanked me for being so persistent as it stopped a mess up on their behalf!

anyway...left that conversation with agreeing to go to ringwood at 2pm tomorrow to get my med's and learn how to use the nasal spray.

20 mins later she rings me back...because my med's were not ordered in time...they can not get them to ringwood in time...so i have to drive into the city (grrrr....this means a 2 hour round trip..instead of a 30 min one) and collect them at 9.30 am...

she did appologise...a lot....and said that she would investigate...

i am so glad i knew enough to push it....i would have been freaking out...and for good reason had i took the receptionists advice and just "worry about it tomorrow".

i hope all goes smoother from here!

It's CD1!!!! IVF has begun

So AF has arrived...and the calls have been made....IVF has begun.

Slight crisis with money...because our funds were in our mortgage offset account...and it take 2 days to get transfered...and we have to pay up front...or no cycle. So a lil bit of stress and some phone calls later...my wonderful sister paid the $5300 for us and we can pay her back on Thursday when our money comes in.

I must admit to being a bit stressed about money...so much going out and not enough coming back in. I almost feel paralyzed with what to do. I am sort of kicking myself for going to the Uk in September....I wish now, in hindisight...we had not done it. However, that said...assuming this works...it would have meant we would not be going for at least another 5 years....argghhh the balance.

So, at the moment...we are looking at ways to scrimp and save so we don't go broke lol. We are used to having a nice buffer in the bank...right now the buffer is gone. So...we'll be getting some stuff onto Ebay...and cutting back in all areas that we can. It's hard...because we don't live it large...we rarely eat out, going to the movies is something we do once every 3 or 4 months, we don't have cable TV, we don't have fancy clothes and i spend very little on new things for Elliott....so i don't even know where to cut back...but we will find somewhere!

Anyway...i am waiting to hear from the nurse so i can really get going. I should be picking up my meds tomorrow...and will have my full schedule this afternoon!