Harvesting day

As chemotherapy and hormone therapy are most likely to cause infertility, after long discussions with doctors and aware of the risks involved, I’ve decided to go through IVF treatment and to have some embryos frozen. After two weeks of daily injections (that I had to give to myself, and the first injection took me almost 15 minutes to give!), today I went for egg collection. Disappointingly, from the 7 follicles shown in the scan, only two contained mature eggs, of good enough quality to create embryos. This means the chances of ever having a biological child are very very slim. Mother Nature hasn’t been very generous with me lately. But the way I see it, better two than none, so I will keep my fingers crossed and hope that the embryologist manages to fertilise them both successfully. Tomorrow afternoon I will know how the fertilisation went.