Month: January 2018

The Night Before Collection

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Round 22

I haven’t been very active with my blog writing  lately…. partly because life has been busy and partly because I haven’t wanted to tempt fate and write about what I’m hoping and praying for. With 18 eggs securely frozen I just need another two to get to my 20 that I have dreamed about for so long.

As I sit in Starbucks in the UK the night before egg collection on this latest round I wonder if this will be it. I started stimulation on 31 December so this round has had a lot of slow low dosage stimulation, a change from all the other rounds. I have two follicles showing on the scan. One a good size and the other one on the smallish size but I’m hoping that someone is looking down on me and wanting me to reach my magic number of 20 as much as I do.  Tomorrow I will know.

My family are all out of the country at the moment, so I have a good friend coming to take me to the clinic and collect me tomorrow.  She has been such a rock to me this past year, she was the one who kept me positive when I wanted to give up and has given up her weekend to be here for me.

Friendships like that are hard to find and I don’t think she quite knows just how much I appreciate her love and support. It’s people like this that have made the difference on this journey and I will be forever grateful for the support and encouragement she has shown me.  I will most certainly pay this kindness forward.

So until tomorrow it is fingers and toes crossed as I have one last sleep before collection.

New Clinic…. New Start

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Round 21

For the last few months I have been hunting for a new clinic. Criteria were simple, a clinic that would be prepared to work with my doctor in the UAE and a clinic that was flexible and treated me like a patient not a business transaction.

This should be an easy task but I assure you it hasn’t been! this seems to be a trend on this journey!

I approached three clinics, all London based and maybe I should have been looking at success rates and patient testimonials but all I was really looking for was flexibility.

The first clinic wouldn’t tell me if they were even prepared to work with me across boarders without first having a £300 consultation over Skype! They were rude, inflexible and so I walked away from them quick smart. The second clinic, one that I really liked the look of online as they seem to work with older patients and have some slightly less traditional approaches to egg freezing, they were really nice but told me that unfortunately I would have to be UK based in order to have treatement with them, they were crossed off the list.

The third clinic was actually the one I though was going to be the least helpful and they were completely the opposite. They told me they would be open to working with me and my UAE doctor and that they were doing half price consultations at that time for £90.

I had a Skype consult with a very nice doctor from this clinic and then things moved quickly from there. So far they have been very efficient and flexible and it made me wonder why I didn’t switch clinics a long time ago!

It is obviously still early days but I am hopeful that they will help me get the last few eggs i so desperately want to reach the 20 i promised myself.