Mr Fix-It :) Good with his hands and far shorter than Gigantor which is a relief! They only sent 4 profiles and this was the only one that seemed half decent. 2 had some pretty significant health issues in their family history and another was a moderate to heavy drinker 'on weekends'. Mr Fix-It only had minor health compliants so we figured he was a decent compromise :). To be honest, with such a limited selection, we've had to make health our only criteria. Of course it would be nice to have a donor with similar colouring to Scout and the girls, but not at the risk of a congenital deformity or schizophrenia. So ... Fix-it man it is :) At least we have a donor again, and we're good to go for the next cycle which is fast approaching.
I've been flat out at work lately and trying to squeeze alot in while I'm there. Thanks to a restructure, my work load has more than doubled over the past 3 months but my wage and caseload is still expected to stay the same. Work is not something I generally like to bring home but it has happened a few times over the past couple of weeks, and to make matters worse I've even been dreaming about work which is ridiculous. I woke up exhausted the other day and had to get up and go to work after I felt like I'd just done a full day there in my sleep!! Scout has also been working alot and has been sick so we are both glad it's finally the weekend and we can spend some time together.
Scout got her boat license this week so we are planning to head off to one of the nearby lakes to give our new tinny a run. Last night I dreamt that while we were launching the boat our car ended up in the drink as well and floated away! So now I'm feeling alittle apprehensive about the whole thing but I'm sure it will be just fine :) lol.
Next week we have an appointment with our FS to sign the IVF 'consent to treatment' form and then we'll just be waiting for AF and saving our butts off to pay for the cycle. It's a good thing the girls like rice cos I think that's all we'll be able to afford to eat in the not too distant future!
I have mixed feelings about the IVF cycle at this point. I'm looking forward to getting the ball rolling again but I'm also alittle worried about how my body will cope and whether it will even work, and what we'll do if it doesn't and what I'll tell my boss ... Yada yada yada. At this point I'm trying to push alot of that to the back of my mind and just focus on what I can control in the here and now. It's going to be an interesting month to say the least. I also got an invite yesterday to a friends hen's party which is going to be a winery tour around the region where we live. It's on the weekend after when I expect my ET will be and there's no way I can get out of it cos we live right in the middle of the wineries. So now I'm trying to figure out how the heck I'm suppose to attend a wine tasting event and get away with not drinking?! Anyway ... For the time being I've said I'll be going but I know it'll really depend on how I pull up after all the procedures. I have a sneaking suspicion I may have to come clean with my friend sooner rather than later about us TTC, but I'd really rather avoid that if I can.
Life lessons from an almost dead tree
6 days ago
Wow that really sucks about your donor! Does your clinic use US or other overseas donors? Ours used them and they were heaps more expensive but we were able to be pretty picky.
ReplyDeleteAs for the winery tours, you could always say you're on antibiotics? If you say you have a UTI or something, nobody will question you lol.
Lol that would be funny. I did think about saying I was on antibiotics but I never would have considered saying I had a UTI! Lol. Unfortunately none of the clinics in Victoria offer use of overseas donors. We have some silly law about importing and exporting sperm in our state. We can't even import from another state within Australia! Some people head over the boarder to do it but it's pretty hard to do that every month. So we had to resign ourselves to the fact that unless we moved interstate, our options were always going to be limited. It's annoying ... and even alittle concerning as the chances of other lesbians we know ending up with child that's a sibling to our own is pretty high! I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about that. It's all a bit weird. But I guess we're just grateful we've got access to any sperm at this point :)
ReplyDeleteThat's true I guess. Its a shame but if (when!) you get a little one out of it, it won't even matter!
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