I’m sat here alone in bed, far away in Telisland without Telis.
We’re starting our next IVF cycle. My period was due to start yesterday but it didn’t, much to my annoyance. I was hoping if it started on a Friday, I could have my day 2 bloods on the Saturday. But if it starts on Saturday, I’ll have to wait until Monday to have my bloods and that’ll be day 3, so I’d be starting a whole day later.
But my body clearly has other plans. My first IUI cycle my period came a whole week early, and this time, it’s looking like my period will be coming late! For normal people, a late period would actually mean something, for me it’s just an inconvenience and delayer in getting this shit started.
Telis and I have been so unwell as well. I rarely get colds, maybe once every two years or something. Even COVID was never an issue but this month, we’ve both been struck down by something and it seems to be lasting ages. I think it may be two separate infections but back to back, as I was starting to get better then got worse again. My throat glands are swollen, I’ve been blowing my nose so much that the bottom of my nose got so irritated that it broke out in cold sores. My head has felt muffled on occasions. I’m really out here suffering. And this is the cycle we were meant to be doing IVF. Where we’re meant to be in the best shape possible and now we are both dying.
It’s frustrating but I’m here in Telisland and all I can do is hope I get better fast so it’s not a wasted trip.
If my period doesn’t start tomorrow then I know that there’s definitely someone or something out there conspiring against me. What’s it called when something always happens as it should but then the one time you need that thing to happen, it doesn’t? Moore’s Law? No, that’s wrong. Silly engineer me. Murphy’s Law! “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Ain’t that right!
It’s likely I got my ovulation day wrong as I’m not tracking it but when I feel ovulation, that’s when I usually ovulate. I don’t think I got it wrong, but at the same time, my luteal phase (LP) isn’t usually any longer than 10 days. I can only attribute the continuance of my vitamins, supplements and prolactin meds interfering in my menstrual cycle in some way. It isn’t strange for me to have the occasional 11 day LP so I’ll be expecting it tomorrow and to start my meds on day 3 – boo!
After Bailey’s transfer of her embryo, things didn’t progress further, which is kind of sad.
As for Telis and the job situation, he’s had an interview, which went well, and he’s talking to a recruiter about another role, so there are prospects for sure!