Updates

IVF Progress

It's CD18 (cycle day 18): I started Norethisterone this moring.

Really feeling very unprepared and nervous at the moment! Stepping forward in faith, and that means more than it ever has done before. Been listening to lots of worship music (and singing embarrassingly loudly) while doing the washing up and cooking, keeping up with daily Bible study as often as possible, and also have started a lovely book called 'The Father Heart of God'. All of these things are really helping me to chill out, relax, and keep my focus where it needs to be.

Had my thyroid function results back yesterday; my TSH level is 0.19, which is a little low, so Maha (our consultant at Care) has recommended dropping my thyroxine dose from 100mg to 75, and then retesting blood in a month (when I will be in the middle of cycling.... Whaaaaaat?! How did that come round so quickly?!).

Also had a smear test last Wednesday; waiting on results of that as final OK that we are good to go ahead with this cycle. Clinics like you to be up to date on smears before doing IVF treatment.

Other Updates

I had one job interview last Friday and another one this morning (2 different jobs). The one last Friday was my first for five years, and I was sooooo nervous! Less nervous than when I started volunteering last year though, and I think a lot less nervous than the job interviews I had five years ago, so that was really good and reassuring. I'm waiting to hear sometime today about the first job, and tomorrow about the second job. It would be really nice to have a new job to start to take my mind off treatment, and both are part-time and would fit really well around hospital visits, but I am totally trusting God with this one. The last job I did (I can't believe I started that five years ago now!) was so perfect and divinely appointed that it was actually one of the things that started me believing in Him, so it's a lot easier, and comes much more naturally to me, to trust Him with jobs than trusting Him with our future family does.

With both job interviews, my hubby has prayed for me the night before, and I have really appreciated that and have found it helps me sleep a lot better and generally feel a lot calmer. I was a bit more freaked out today than I was on Friday, because today's interview coincided with starting Norethisterone, which makes IVF seem so real, so I went to the loo just before the interview, thanked Jesus that we can call on him, and welcomed the Holy Spirit's presence... I instantly felt so calm, and now that the interview is over, I feel a bit better about impending IVF as well.

Our little doggy has also been under the weather for a few days; he has a nasty cut to his face which he has been scratching and licking incessantly, so we are getting him a cone this evening! Poor little dude!