Hi Clemo, hope all the blood tests are going well, a few jabs certainly helps you feel like you've started the process. all come back good and you can get straight onto a cycle. I know for me at least when I was doing things like counselling and nurses appointments, etc it felt good to regain some kind of control over it all and a bit of excitement too knowing that each day was one step closer.

Now I feel a bit in limbo land. Our donor hasn't done his 2nd test yet - unfortunately he's not in the same hurry we are ...so we just have to wait- but apparently his clinic said he shouldn't be too concerned, so we'll see. You asked about quarantine - well when someone donates the clinic tests their blood for diseases like HIV & Hep B, C. Because these diseases sometimes take up to 6 months to show in your blood, they hold onto the sperm until after 6 months when the donor does another blood test. If the 2nd blood test is also clean, then they release the sperm to us to be used. So, I'm not sure if they do the same for egg donors or not. Possibly not.

Joy - any news??????