Things are happening

Alright, where were we? I'd had my appointment with the new FS last time I posted. So a week later, I went for my Lap & Hyst. FS rang Alan after the surgery to tell him that he had found a bit of endometriosis, but had removed it, and that otherwise all my bits looked good and healthy. We went for our follow-up two days ago, wherein FS showed me pictures of my insides, and gave me the photos to keep which is very cool! They included pics of the two patches of endo that he lasered off, and they really were fairly small, in my uneducated opinion anyway. He then filled out our confirmation thingy for our next cycle, and handed us over to the nurse who we spent ages with. She talked us through the cycle and the costs (I accidentally mistook the Medicare item number as the cost; I thought the upfront was going to be $13200! Lol!), then gave us a lot of info and all our consent forms to take home and fill out, which we will bring back to be signed and witnessed at another appointment this Wednesday. We also brought home profiles for their nine current donors they have available; the clinic actually imports sperm from America, so the profiles are very comprehensive. They include lots of info such as DOB, ethnicity and race, marital status, blood type, heaps of physical characteristics, health info for both the donor and their immediate family including gransparents, as well as stuff about personality attributes, and a large paragraph talking about themselves in which a couple of them address the future child, which I thought was kind of sweet.

Anyway, we have gone through these profiles and selected our top three preferences. However, Alan is having a final rethink about whether he should still be considering using a known donor instead. Seeing the profiles for the donors has made them seem more "real" to him; he said he would have preferred the clinic to just choose one for us based on his physical appearance (and of course taking into account family health and such). He's not sure how he feels about our future adult child wanting to track down and meet their biological father. I don't either, to be honest, but I'm sure when the time came we would be able to find ways to cope.

Hopefully he makes a decision very very soon, because the exciting thing is that we will soon be able to get started on our next cycle, pretty much next time my period shows up! That should be in around a week or so, depending on whether the surgery has screwed with my natural cycle at all, or if my natural cycle is behaving itself. As I mentioned before, we are going back to the clinic on Wednesday to sign all the forms, and I will also be collecting my drugs and everything I need. The best part is that this new clinic doesn't do blood tests, apart from the final pregnancy test. So all I have to do is take my injections when I'm initially told, and show up for a scan on around CD 10, then possibly another one to work out when to trigger, and that's it. No more rocking up on CD 2, 8, 10, 12 or whatever first thing in the morning for blood tests, yay!!

Last Friday and this coming Wednesday we also had/have counselling appointments with a psychologist to talk about using donor sperm; it's a legal requirement. The first session went fine, it was probably just the psych talking about two-thirds of the time, talking us through some of the potential issues and getting our input. The next session might be interesting if Alan is feeling a bit cold-feet-y about the anon donor thing, but maybe by then he'll have made peace a little more with it.

More to come after Wednesday...