Round 13

With 6 injections alone today and more than 38 over the past 16 days it’s no wonder my stomach looks like it’s taken a beating! I have so many bruises around my belly button that it was hard to find a bruise-less space for the final three trigger shots!  It’s funny as I look back 19 months ago when I started on this journey and remember mixing and administering my first injection and how long it took and how worried I was about if I was going to beable to inject myself! I really have come a long way!

This round, round 13 (unlucky for some, but hopefully NOT for me. 😜) I have tried a slightly different and I’m told somewhat ‘ground breaking’ protocol. I have introduced the growth hormone ‘saizen’ into my daily ritual, infact I started these injections 3 days prior to the start of my period and have continued with injecting it daily throughout this round.  I am told there has been evidence that the use of growth hormone helps slightly in the encouragement of more follicles to grow and also in the quality of the eggs that grow. At this point I will try almost anything to complete my last two rounds and get as many eggs frozen as possible. We shall see but I’m hopeful that it will help.

I’m sitting at the airport awaiting to board yet another flight to the U.K. for my collection which is scheduled for the day after tomorrow (Friday morning). No more injections for this round. Now I need to just hope and pray that I haven’t ovulated before collection and that there are good eggs to collect, I think at best it will be three which I would be really happy with.

This trip couldn’t actually have come at a better time as I found out 2 days ago that I’m loosing my job. I am still waiting to find out when, next month or later this year and I won’t go into details but it hasn’t been the best of weeks in my professional career so I couldn’t be happier to leave the UAE for a few days and go home and get some family love. It’s been a very tough and lonely week, couple that with all the hormones I’ve been shooting into my body’s and there is no place like home even if it is destined to be freezing cold!

As I look forward with optimism I think if I could just have two more good rounds and get the number of eggs I have frozen up to ideally 20, then I could start the next chapter of my life wherever that may be and whatever that will be doing, with excitement and time and I think it will afford me a lot more options as to what’s next, buts I’ll try not to get ahead of myself. At the moment as with every other past round, let’s take it one day at a time and just hope for the very best. I think I’m due a bit of a break and some good luck.  Here’s hoping my expertise in injecting myself pays off this round. 😀