First IVF+ICSI appointment

On Monday we went down to our fertility clinic for our very first IVF+ICSI appointment. It was just an education session.

This is so much more involved than just an IUI with injectables cycle. All the shots, two -possibly three- different injections plus a trigger. Lots of scans where with IUI there was just one - two scans. Not to mention the egg retrival, the transfer and that side of things. Oh and the waiting. So much waiting.

It's just so overwhelming. I'm yet to read the information book, I'm still just trying to process and come to terms with moving on to IVF. My nurse is going to call me on either Friday or Monday with the type of cycle my FS has decided on.

Come January we'll start our first cycle. I'm scared, anxious and feel a bit out of my depth.

And to top it off, I have to go in to the clinic tomorrow morning to have a repeat cystic fibrosis screening blood test. I had this test done back in August along with my AMH. I had to redo my AMH blood work as the lab told my clinic there was a batch failure with my test. But now after my lovely nurse has spent a week trying to track down my CF results the lab has said they don't know what happened to my results. Everything else came back fine, just not the two extra specialist tests. Said tests cost us over $300. I'm not impressed. I know it's not the clinics fault. I watched my nurse label all our tubes of blood and put them together into the collection baggie which was also labelled. I just can't believe the lab lost either the blood or the results. And that it took them so long to get back to my clinic.