Update

Hello....

I haven't updated in a while but I've been busy!! Longleat was good fun :)

Monday I had my mid-cycle scan, all was well. I had approximately 40 visible eggs and so they decided I was ready for the egg op on Wednesday (yesterday). So yesterday I went in for the egg removal procedure, I was quite anxious about it. It was done under sedation in the end but it wasn't too bad. Parts of it were really quite painful but I got through it and they managed to remove 32 eggs (the average amount usually being 6 haha). And today they called me to tell me that 22 had made it to the embryo stage. The other eggs hadn't been mature enough to fertilise. I now have to wait till tomorrow to find out how many divide properly and can be frozen, but it's looking really good :)

Because I managed to make sooo many eggs, I have to take it easy now and not do anything as I'm at risk of having over-stimulated ovaries (what fun). I'm currently full on bloated too so feel a bit like a pregnant puffa fish. Could be something to do with the amount of food I ate yesterday (the egg removal made me incredible hungry!!!)

As for the cancer... I have to have a re-staging so my nurse is currently organising a scan for me. Once this has been done I can start chemotherapy (hopefully next week - although my ovaries need time to heal too).

Oddly enough, I'm still feeling fine about the whole cancer thing (perhaps because I know it'll all be fine). I've been more worried about the egg removal!!! All I do know is that I'm going to be a lot tougher.

I hate being bloated!!! Going to have to live in my jim jams till it goes down. Also, have about 6 days worth of food in me still. Must be a side-effect of fertility :/ not that anyone wanted to know that!!! But it's good to be aware of.

I will blog again soon :)

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