I am about to embark on a new journey in my life. I have been contemplating this for some time now & finally have taken the steps towards making it happen.
On the 6th May I will be having Gastric Banding Surgery at St George Private Hospital.
This hasn’t been an easy decision to make, however it is up to me only to change my future.
I am expecting this surgery to allow me to:
- Reduce my weight significantly.
- This should then have a flow-on affect & allow me to control my PCOS.
- Encourage me to change my eating habits to good healthy choices.
- Raise my chances of becoming pregnant & starting that longed for family that Dean & I have spent the past 4+ years working towards.
- Help in maintaining my good Cholesterol & Blood Sugar Levels.
- Reduce the impact on my joints which I experience pain in my back, knees & ankles on a regular basis.
- Allow me to have a healthy & long future.
Today I begin my liquid diet. 2 weeks of Optifast meals 3 times per day before surgery. This allows all fat around the organs, the liver in particular to diminish & allow handling during surgery much easier. It also reduces pain afterwards & speeds up recovery.
So I am off to have my breakfast…. 1 Chocolate Optifast shake, 1 liquid Multivitamin, 1 glass of water with Benefibre followed soon after with a black tea perhaps?!? LOL
I am hoping to keep updating my site regularly regarding this journey so please join me for a few minutes each day.
Thank You!
- The IUI Cycle
As of writing this post, I am on my 2nd Day of needles. Basically what happens (for those of you unfamiliar with the process) is that you follow your natural cycle from CD1 until CD5 where you begin to control the cycle through meds. Self injecting Estrogen etc until Ovulation time. Blood tests & ultrasound along the way tell the story of how close we can get to pinpointing the perfect Fertilisation time. Then 1 last injection needle called the Trigger is done at home. The very next day we do the insemmination procedure, some follow up injections, then we play the waiting game for 2 weeks.
I am utterly impressed that the self-injection needle is completely painless! This makes it easy to do considering most of us hate needles! So basically it is all about preparation then waiting.
It is amazing how todays science & technology helps with assisted pregnancies. What I find even more truly amazing is how complex the whole Conception process actually is!
Here is a video showing an animation of the procedure. Enjoy.
I haven’t left a response regarding our IVF Clinic appointment. The main reason being that we were left feeling a little disapointed with the outcome even though we are moving forwards still. I won’t go into great detail. However we are embarking now on a 3 month journey of Clomid. I have been prescribed 100mg for the next 3 months, though the Dr only gave us a script for 2? We had some routine Blood work done & we had to give a sample of swimmers for a trial wash. This is to find out the count, morphology & motility of the little fellas.
We had to make an appointment on June 2nd for the results. We will also have had a Day 21 Blood Test done by this time which will tell us wether I actually ovulated due to the Clomid or not. We are of course hoping that by this stage we may have fallen pregnant with our first dose of Clomid. Therefore will not have to continue any more cycles & will have our own little munchkin finally on the way.
So all in all it is a very exciting time again, one that hopefully allows a miracle to occur. Our little miracle.