This past week I had to go to Sydney to have surgery due to ongoing infertility issues. We have been working on becoming pregnant for over 3 years now with no success. During this time we have however found out other underlying medical issues that have assisted the infertility process which we are busily working on reversing.

I went into Royal Hospital for Women Randwick Tuesday for 2 procedures, Laparoscopy & Hysteroscopy.

All the staff at the hospital were wonderful & very accomodating. I actually enjoyed my stay even though I wasn’t near home & had no visitors except for ShadowKnight. The food was also very nice, with far too much of it on the tray!

Anyway, I was scheduled to have 90 minutes of surgery & spent a mere 30 mins in surgery. Straight away this means well!

They went in looking for reasons for infertility including the blocked tubes which showed at the last Hy-Co-Sy test & looking for any Endometriosis, PCOS & any other factors leading to Infertility, even though I was diagnosed with PCOS a year ago.

They had no probs getting into the areas needed & immediately detected my ovaries were enlarged, consistant with PCOS. Both Tubes had fluid passed through them which resulted in clear tubes & spilling over the ovaries….. Which is awesome news, as during the last test (Hy-Co-Sy) this did not occur! I believe one tube has small issues, but should result in clear ovulation when needed. Therefore they will need to keep an eye on this tube for eptopic pregnancies etc.

No Endometriosis or adhesions were detected & my uterus & my upper abdomen areas were normal.

I stayed overnight Tuesday night as I was terribly ill from the anaesthetic. Throwing up everywhere afterwards! However SK stayed by my side the whole day after emerging from Recovery, no matter how groggy & how much I dozed on & off, till they basically kicked him out!
He was about to leave at 8pm when the Lady sharing my room received new visitors.. Which sent SK whirling on his heels back to my side till the nurse came in & said… Time to leave folks! He was fantastic & when we got the news that evening from the Dr’s who operated on me, we were both so excited & I have not seen SK so happy since we first met.

Wednesday morning the Dr’s paid me another visit to allow me to go home later in the day & retold me the news etc. Dr Abbott who was in charge of the actual Surgery told me he has his fingers crossed that with future Clomid Treatment, we should be well underway of growing a healthy baby by Christmas. This was definitely great news to hear, but won’t be believed till it actually happens. It is however more believable now than ever before.

Therefore I am seeing Prof Eden again soon (August 6th) to hopefully begin or at least discuss treatment of Chlomid & possibility of being managed by IVF in Wollongong to save on the trips to Syd all the time for appointments. I won’t be 100% sure of this until I actually do see him.

As for now I am home & happy, a little sore but not needing any drugs for pain management.

Will keep everyone updated as things progress.