Recovery & cooling off

A week on from my operation, and I am almost back to 100%. I had my stitches removed on Friday by my doctor, and the wound sites, while still sore, aren't debilitating like they were for the first couple of days. Over all I would say the operation was tougher than a normal egg collection, as you have both the cramps and pain from your ovaries on the inside, as well as the incision sites on the outside.

We had our group counselling session with P and his wife on Saturday. I think it went really well. Touched on a bunch of subjects from how much contact we would like with each other once a child is born, having our kids know each other and that they are related to each other etc. The first thing P said to us was that the possibility of us donating embryos back to them was just complicating the situation, and they want to treat this as a completely altruistic decision, without worrying about that situation. Their main concern appears to be that they wouldn't want the embryos destroyed, and if we decided that we no longer needed the embryos because we had finished our family, that we would donate the embryos to them or another couple. We are in complete agreement, we would never destroy embryos (our religious beliefs preclude it), and we are very comfortable with that. Having that all cleared up has really helped us move forward with the decision.

Murray & I both felt really positive coming out of the session. WA law requires us to wait for 3 months as a cooling-off period to make sure that both parties are still happy with the arrangement, and then we go back for another individual and joint counselling session on Saturday May 21st. So the countdown is on. If the worst happens, and P decides not to be our donor, then we still have access to the anonymous donor sperm that we were previously going to use. However our preferred option is to go with P.

We are planning to do an IVF cycle in May or June, finances depending. Things will be tight financially but this is important to us, so we will make it work. Once my body is healed completely from the procedure, I plan on getting back into some exercise, to get myself nice and strong for our next round of treatment. #twitfit seems to be all the range so I will jump on board!