BW - sorry you're hormones are giving you grief - i'm sure they'll have a plan of attack for you tomorrow - i know that i had to have a few extra days synarel as my hormone levels weren't low enough to start the puregon straight away. i think it was only a day or two more, just to show that i'd hit the base level. with regard to your injections and the thursday thing - if you were told to start tonight, you'd have the tenth injection next wednesday night - so EPU could potentially be the thursday... here's hoping that they an work out what's going on so that it's no big delay for you

Summer - no air con at the moment is a major drag. we've got good air con at work, but it's controlled from a central computer - 200k's away - so sometimes it's not really adjusted to suit our conditions - and can take 24 hours to adjust! we've had to turn it off a few times the past few months due to the fires - the air con was just pumping smoke into the building soooo badly. would have hated to be at work today without air con though!

to everyone else - sorry but i'm having amind freeze tonight - and can't get my head around any more personals!

well, today was "interesting" - to say the least. the family were reasonably well behaved, but there were a couple of moments that i felt really uncomfortable with what was going on. my dad and two of his siblings have been estranged since i was a little kid. we were always told that, no matter what was going on, they were still family, so it was expected that we treat them with respect. i have no personal issue with them, except that they have involved me and my brother by ignoring us and telling their kids to do the same. today, they were within a few feet of me, talking to my cousins (that i'm pretty close with) - and ignored me and my brother - we tried to speak to them, and they turned their backs on us - these are people pusing 60, and acting like spoilt 10 year olds. i was disgusted. their kids (about 6 or 8 years older than me) did exactly the same - one of them was 20 minutes late to her grandmothers funeral - i just really struggle dealing with actions so disrespectful. my dad's sister didn't even acknowledge her step father - in her eyes, he isn't family, so why should he deserve acknowledgement? he was married to my nan for over 22 years - and, as the youngest of the grandkids, was the only grandfather i knew! add to that the fact that my pop looked sooooo damn sick that i'm now stressing about him....... oh yeah, it was bloody hot, so i got my poor red-headed self sunburnt too! ouchy! DH is gonna have to rub some moisturiser into my shoulders and neck soon!

on a better note, visited FS this arvo for follow up after cancelled IUI cycle. firstly, he smiled and told me that i seemed like i was gonna be a difficult patient, and was gonna make him earn his dollars - yay - finally a doctor that GETS me!! anyway, he went through an explanation of the type of treatment i'd received (step up) where they increased dosage to get a result - and that some docs would just keep stepping up the dosage - for anywhere up to four weeks - until they got a response. he felt this wouldn't work, so he's going to use another method (step down) where i have 3 days of higher dose puregon, then back to a lightly lower dose, to see if that works - he also said there was a chance i'd need a bus for al the kids we could end up with for this method of treatment! i mentioned to him that i was having the dental surgery in a couple of weeks (to which he started squirming just imagining the discomfort), and would be happy to put the TTC on hold until after this, which he thought would be a good move - he then took me to the clinic nurse, and told her i was having surgery (she squirmed too - and they don't even know what has to happen), and wanted to hold off on active TTC til after - so now all i have to do is contact the clinic when i'm ready to kick off again, and all will start again from there. only variation to this plan is if AF miraculously decides to pay me a visit - but knowing my history, that's highly unlikey!!! i left the clinic feeling much more positive about the whole thing - yay!!

now, all i gotta do is survive the next coupe of weeks leading up to this surgery, and i'l be fine...