Shannon, how did you go with EPU today? Hope you're ok.

Ann, still travelling ok with the TWW?

Odette, I've completely forgotten where you're at all ok?

I guess there's quite a lot of us heading into some sort of break over Christmas... from memory (and I'm really struggling to keep track of everyone at the moment), me, BG, Megan, Lou, Ellie, Mel - all on a break? getting awfully quiet in here again.

Anyway, wanted to report that my appointment with the FS went well - he's behind me in my decision to use the pill over the break to manipulate transfer into being a bit earlier than it otherwise would be (even helped me work out when I should stop it for best timing in relation to the clinic and lab getting sorted out after the break!). No hard time over pre-ovulation the anxiety, just instructions to get my psychologist to help me find ways to deal with it. Accepted that it's just the way my body responds to high estrogen levels... also accepted that the hyperstim is just the way my body does things, not due to crappy diet and no exercise! I think he's finally getting his head around the fact that my body isn't necessarily cooperative and "normal" in responding, but I will generally be consistent.

Worst thing was the following day when the business manager at the clinic rang and started out with something along the lines of "I'm really sorry, BW, but we've discovered a mistake..." Here's me panicking that they've miscounted my embryos, lost them, given them to the wrong person, used the wrong sperm... but it turns out that it was just an error in the way I'd been billed. We were billed for synarel, but used lucrin. I was also then billed later for the orgalutran shots - on the same bill they credited the synarel, billed the lucrin... but when we paid it they missed the credit. All that panic over a billing mix up! Our FET will just end up being $105 cheaper than normal next time.

BW