Tuesday 3rd February 2009

“One shovel or two”? Ross asked as he poked his head out of the shed. With a striking glance I clearly stated “One baby, ……there is NO way I am going to shovel anything with ovaries this sore”. We were packing up the car ready for our trip to Hammersmith. We were going to be prepared for any eventuality. “It won’t fit”, Ross announced as he strategically shoved the duvet into the boot, along with. The shovel, two large bottles of water, four blankets, lots of spare clothes and the garden broom minus the handle, which he had to sore off, for it to fit in the first place. All this because it had snowed the night before. How the news scare mongers, but nothing was going to get in the way of having our scan.
The journey was surprisingly uneventful considering what the news had told us this morning. We arrived at the hospital with minutes to spare looking like Eskimos, but YES we had made it. This was it the moment we had been wanting for, the moment of truth. God what were we going to find today? I could hardly contain my excitement.
My doctor started with my right ovary. As he turned the scanning probe to get a good view, there was a slight twinge that passed over the whole of the right side of my tummy. Oooooow, that was a bit tender, not very nice at all really. He said that he could clearly see two lovely sized follicles with more growing around them, and was really pleased. He also told us that the smaller ones around them were growing lovely. And follicles can contain more then one egg, so we should harvest quite a few from that side. Well Done Betty!!!, I thought you go girl, rock on. So on to Olive then, he slowly adjusted the probe to view my left ovary and smiled at me. “Hummmmmmmmm, ok” he said, “Now lets see One, two…….three…..Oh that’s a good one …….four……..and that one…..five, six and some small ones on there too. Way to go Olive you little raver, YES. “That’s great news Mrs Elliott you have done fantastic”. Phew I was glad that was over because as you can imagine Olive was bloody sore. It felt like someone was ripping my insides out with a rusty hook. Once again my Dr praised me a told me that I need to rest as much as I can now. That wasn’t all he told me. He informed us that because my follicles are growing so well, I have to go back in the morning for another scan. You see I am getting very close to the time when they need to harvest my eggs, Oh god how exciting, and he needs to see if the smaller ones have grow much over night. It’s amazing how hours really count in the IVF process, so much can change over night, oh it’s a bit scary now.
However I am soooooo excited that we have jumped over another massive hurdle and we are on the home run to the winners circle, I HOPE. I can NOT contain my excitement and can’t wait un till the morning once again. God this is all moving really fast now.