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Wednesday 2 May 2012

Back to the donor drawing board

This morning we had our pre IVF appointments. I still can't believe they got us in so quickly. We went to the Box Hill clinic which we haven't been to before. It was different but the staff were just as nice and professional as the city clinic. Our first appointment was with the nurse to go through our treatment plan and all the drugs I'll be on. We'll be doing an antagonist cycle which I'm very happy about as it'll take the same amount of time to complete as a regular cycle. I was worried we'd have to do a down regulation cycle or something long and involved like that but thankfully that's not the case. Yay! On top of that the nurse seemed to think we should be able to start this cycle since I'm only on day 2! How good is that?! At first I was a little freaked mostly because I knew it would mean doing some quick juggling of money to make it happen, but the fact that we could get away without having to miss a cycle was awesome! The only problem was we needed to get an IVF treatment consent form signed with our FS which we hadn't done so our nurse contacted her receptionist to see if we could do the paperwork without a face to face consult. While we were waiting to hear back about that we had the financial appointment, essentially to confirm that this is going to cost a bomb and to get all our payment, private health insurance and medicare arrangements in place. At the end we saw the counsellor and thankfully it was a different one from last time. She was great :) Very direct and easy to talk to. We went through more paperwork regarding embryo storage etc and that's when we hit a speed bump. Our donor. Apparently they have a shortage of IUI donors at present with only two currently available and ours is one of them. They won't let us take him over to IVF because they have a number of IVF donors available and they need to keep him as an IUI donor. So we have to chose a new one. We kind of had a hunch that this might happen but it was still a bit disappointing. It's a bit of a process when you mentally commit to a donor and considering the choices are limited, we felt pretty lucky that we managed to find someone we liked in the first place. So now we have to start again, which potentially means we may end up having to settle for someone we might not like as much and I really don't want to feel like I'm just settling when I'm picking a donor. On top of that, the donor nurse who manages the profiles is snowed under after being away on annual leave so the earliest she can send us any profiles to choose from is 1-4 weeks! That means this cycle is definately out. We can't start a cycle not knowing if we will or won't have a donor when we get to the day of trigger! Especially not when we're paying through the nose for it.

So after all that we are back to waiting this cycle out. I am ok with this as I had originally thought that would be the case, I just thought it would be for different reasons. I never considered that we might be without a donor. And the thought of having to pick a new one is not thrilling me. They only ever offer up a few profiles to choose from at any one time, so what happens if all the ones they send us are crap?! I know deep down that whoever we end up with will be the right one regardless, so I shouldn't worry about it too much. It's just a pretty important part of the recipe to be missing right now don't you think?! Anyway, fingers crossed these profiles come out sooner rather than later and that one of them is exactly what we're after :) This process has been pretty unpredictable so far, so I am just going to have to go with the flow and see what happens at this point. As long as we have a donor by the end of this month, I'll be happy. In the meantime it's back to vitamins, exercise and eating healthy :)

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Wednesday 2 May 2012

Back to the donor drawing board

This morning we had our pre IVF appointments. I still can't believe they got us in so quickly. We went to the Box Hill clinic which we haven't been to before. It was different but the staff were just as nice and professional as the city clinic. Our first appointment was with the nurse to go through our treatment plan and all the drugs I'll be on. We'll be doing an antagonist cycle which I'm very happy about as it'll take the same amount of time to complete as a regular cycle. I was worried we'd have to do a down regulation cycle or something long and involved like that but thankfully that's not the case. Yay! On top of that the nurse seemed to think we should be able to start this cycle since I'm only on day 2! How good is that?! At first I was a little freaked mostly because I knew it would mean doing some quick juggling of money to make it happen, but the fact that we could get away without having to miss a cycle was awesome! The only problem was we needed to get an IVF treatment consent form signed with our FS which we hadn't done so our nurse contacted her receptionist to see if we could do the paperwork without a face to face consult. While we were waiting to hear back about that we had the financial appointment, essentially to confirm that this is going to cost a bomb and to get all our payment, private health insurance and medicare arrangements in place. At the end we saw the counsellor and thankfully it was a different one from last time. She was great :) Very direct and easy to talk to. We went through more paperwork regarding embryo storage etc and that's when we hit a speed bump. Our donor. Apparently they have a shortage of IUI donors at present with only two currently available and ours is one of them. They won't let us take him over to IVF because they have a number of IVF donors available and they need to keep him as an IUI donor. So we have to chose a new one. We kind of had a hunch that this might happen but it was still a bit disappointing. It's a bit of a process when you mentally commit to a donor and considering the choices are limited, we felt pretty lucky that we managed to find someone we liked in the first place. So now we have to start again, which potentially means we may end up having to settle for someone we might not like as much and I really don't want to feel like I'm just settling when I'm picking a donor. On top of that, the donor nurse who manages the profiles is snowed under after being away on annual leave so the earliest she can send us any profiles to choose from is 1-4 weeks! That means this cycle is definately out. We can't start a cycle not knowing if we will or won't have a donor when we get to the day of trigger! Especially not when we're paying through the nose for it.

So after all that we are back to waiting this cycle out. I am ok with this as I had originally thought that would be the case, I just thought it would be for different reasons. I never considered that we might be without a donor. And the thought of having to pick a new one is not thrilling me. They only ever offer up a few profiles to choose from at any one time, so what happens if all the ones they send us are crap?! I know deep down that whoever we end up with will be the right one regardless, so I shouldn't worry about it too much. It's just a pretty important part of the recipe to be missing right now don't you think?! Anyway, fingers crossed these profiles come out sooner rather than later and that one of them is exactly what we're after :) This process has been pretty unpredictable so far, so I am just going to have to go with the flow and see what happens at this point. As long as we have a donor by the end of this month, I'll be happy. In the meantime it's back to vitamins, exercise and eating healthy :)

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