Almost there ...

Sorry it's taken so long for me to update on here. We've had a bit of a rollercoaster journey over the last couple of months so I will try to bring you up to date.

We had our group counselling session. It went really well and we felt happy that the hospital would support our arrangement and do the treatment for us. We then had our visits from the social worker. She visited my IPs first and then us shortly after. The whole time she was at our house, she raved about how lovely my IPs were! So I got the feeling she was very happy with our arrangement.

We all felt really positive and were hoping that the panel meeting would go ahead quickly and we would get the thumbs up. Then we had a huge blow. Apparently, IF's sperm should have been quarantined for 6 months! But somehow they just neglected to tell us this back in October when we went for our first appointment together. We were all under the impression we were having a totally fresh transfer.

Thankfully, the doctor was in support of a fresh transfer with fresh sperm, but they needed to get an adjustment to their licence from the HFEA. So they applied for the exception, and we waited! Finally we heard back and it was a YES! We were over the moon. So the panel meeting went ahead, they gave us the thumbs up, and we are finally getting started!

Myself and my IPs went to see the Senior Nurse a couple of weeks ago and she talked us through our treatment plans. She also gave us our prescriptions for the medication and showed us how to use the syringes etc! That was a bit daunting. We found out that IM's medication for the egg retrieval was going to cost almost £600! But luckily she has a very kind GP who gave all the medication to her on the NHS.

We just need to get letters from our solicitors to confirm that our life insurances are in place, then we can sign the consent forms at the hospital. That should all happen over the next couple of weeks and I should start my treatment in early July. We're hoping for an end of July transfer, but it may end up being early August. But at least we are finally there. We are hoping to get two good embryos to transfer and hopefully at least one will stick! Any extra embryos will be frozen, but hopefully we won't need them!