5 days to go

Although it feels like time has been dragging backwards since I made the appointment with the specialist - I guess anything short of immediate action feels like we're sitting on our hands swinging our feet in the air - it hasn't been so bad really, and it's only 5 days to go now.

I don't know what to expect from the specialist, I wish I did, but I'm hoping he'll give us a plan for treatment that we can kick off with my next cycle. I have no idea whether that is a long shot or not, but I'm not giving it too much thought right now.

I've booked the appointment for mid-cycle, so although I'm hoping that he won't want a redo of the blood (hormone) tests I've had done a gazillion times before (ok, ok ...3 or 4), if he does want them, I'll be able to get them done more or less straight away (my appointment is on cycle day 13, and the tests have to be done CD22/CD23) and I won't have to wait out another cycle (if I'd booked the appointment for CD24 for example and he wanted the tests, I'd have to wait another month just to do the bloods).

We're also going on holiday for a week at the end of the month - yay! The break will be really good for anything we may need to process, or come to terms with, or to just not think about it at all which would be bliss. Or, if the appointment doesn't go well for any reason (such as the specialist suggests we give it more time before getting into assisted reproduction, and I leap over his desk and stab him with my nail file or something), a holiday will be just the ticket!