Monday 20 June 2016

Endometrial scratch

I was supposed to get a phone call on Saturday to confirm time of the procedure. No one bothered. I left them a voice mail on Saturday night. A nurse called me this morning around 8:20 and told me to come at 1pm with a comfortably full bladder.
When we got there, we were sat in the corridor by quite a grumpy nurse who told us that someone will take care of us soon. After 15 minutes another nurse asked us if we were being helped. My bladder was very full by then. After another few minutes we were taken through to a tiny room just to have a little chat about what's going to happen today. We had a little moan about what's been happening, how chaotic and unprofessional the team has been. She asked us if we wanted to talk to someone just to put our minds to peace and we agreed. We saw noone.
We were taken to the waiting room and my bladder started screaming, we ended up waiting another 20 minutes. After that another nurse picked me up and took me to the same theatre I had my embryo transfer done. The doctor and yet another nurse were very lovely. I got changed into a theatre gown and got on the chair. The procedure itself took maybe 3 minutes. The scratching part was quite painful, short intense pain but as quickly as it arrived, it was gone. A few seconds of pain and we were done. It wasn't bad at all. The best part of it all was I could go to the toilet straight after. Back in the waiting room I got my antibiotic tablets (just routine) and we were free to go. We went upstairs to the pharmacy to pick up my medications. We got to the check in point and again, we were not on the system. I was getting quite annoyed by that point. They took us to the waiting room though and even gave us a free coffee (in our case hot chocolate) token. Yay. Within a few minutes a nice nurse picked me up and took me through. I got my buserelin, syringes and sharps box so I'm all good to go and start my injections tomorrow. :) Baseline scan is scheduled for July 7th.

Friday 3 June 2016

Ready, set and... Countdown!

After I sent the email to the clinic on Wednesday, I got a phone call from them about an hour later. The nurse was quite confused/confusing because according to my notes I started the down regulation for IVF #2 on 26/04! I couldn't believe they actually thought that when it was the same team who told me to wait for my next period and cancelled the treatment after I started bleeding on day 18. She told me that she was going to have a doctor review my notes and that she would call me back later that day. She never did.
I though to myself, they are probably busy, she is definitely going to call me on Thursday or send me an email. No, nothing happened. Rick was starting to get a bit annoyed as well so he said he was going to call them. All good, they are going to let us know. Cool.
Went to walk our new puppy (Alfie, the German sheprador) and didn't hear my phone ring. I had a voicemail saying that the doctor wants me to start oral contraceptive pill as soon as possible and that I will have to go there to collect them if I don't have any. To be honest, birth control pills are not a thing to be found in my cupboard when we are trying to have a baby... Haha.
I got all panicky because I remember when I was younger and on the pill, they have to be taken from day 1. It was too late to go to the clinic so would have to go the next day (today) which would already be my day 3. I thought that we would have to wait for my next cycle AGAIN to plan the treatment. But fortunately the nurses told me that missing just a couple of pills is fine since I'm taking them only to regulate my hormones and make sure that I'll bleed before my baseline scan. So today I'll start taking the pill and I'll be going back to the clinic on 20/06 for endometrial scratch and will start down regulation on 21/06.