Long Update

Sorry for the long delay between updates, blogspot has been down so we haven't been able to post.

So much has happened since our last post, so the lets talk about the injections, here I was thinking one tiny needle daily was bad, well was I wrong. So after a blood test on Sunday, Dr Shivani decided that she needed to ramp up the hormones, so I received an email from Dr S at 1.30am Delhi time (I don't think this woman sleeps) on Monday morning saying not to give my injection and to come into the office to receive it. So off we go to the SCI office and what do you know I have to have not one but two injections (kinda knew the second one was coming) so they out me into the injection room and the nurse prepares both injections, which made me feel sick watching her draw them up, then I ask her where they are going and she informs me one will be intramuscular in my bum and the other under the skin in my thigh, awesome I thought to myself. The so I drop my pants, get on the bed and the nurse tells me not to tense cause it will hurt more!! It was over pretty quickly, with me taking deep breaths and thankfully the nurse is very good at giving injections.

So that has been our life for the last week, going into to get jabbed once a daily and having ultrasounds to see if the injections are working, thankfully after a slow start my ovaries have decided to wake up and produce some follicles approx 7 -8.

So whats next, well tonight (Saturday) Mark and I went Phoenix Hospital for my LAST injection, this one is a trigger injection of HCG to mature the follicles for collection on wait for it, Monday my birthday!! The retrieval will probably be around 7am, apparently it only takes about 1/2 hour but I will be laid up recovering for most of the day. Mark's donation is also done while I am out cold (bet it won't take 1/2 hour though). Luckily it will be a good story to tell our kid/s. Then off to the lab for creating the embryos, we will find out a couple of days later how many fertilised and then they will be transferred into our surrogate for hopefully the next 9 months.

Now onto our surrogate, after choosing S, she went into to have some preliminary scans and we were informed that she wouldn't be a match to my cycle, so we have chosen another one, we will call her G, she is 28, married and has one daughter, we will meet and sign contracts on Tuesday

Mark and I have been very adventurous with trying new foods, most of you probably know, Mark and I aren't fans of Indian food but we came with an open mind to try it and we have been pleasantly surprised. We haven't been game enough to eat Indian out, instead we eaten here at the B&B. I'm not saying we are converted but we have enjoyed the Indian food we have eaten. Like for tonight's dinner we had Curried Tofu, rice with beans, peas and tofu and this soup that we haven't quite worked out what it is, the only down side is they use coriander in everything which we are not fans of but it has been bearable. We have also found a couple of other great places to eat in this massive shopping mall about 20 mins for where we are staying, they also have a Hard Rock Cafe which has yummy food ands awesome cocktails, Mark is trying to take me there on a date for "My" belated Birthday on the 17th, they also happen to have an AC/DC tribute band playing, how lucky am I, NOT!!!!!

One sad thing we have noticed on our travels around Delhi is the poor people, not that we haven't seen that sort of thing in the other places we have travelled but geez it's heartbreaking to see, don't think i could ever get used to it.

Also Happy Birthday to Ross/Dad, hope you have had a great day!!

Well that's about it for now, we will update on Monday arvo and let you all know how everything went.