#notpregnantjustfat

🎜🎝Just Gotta Ride it!🎝🎝 Full disclosure I was...and still very much am, a HAUOGE Boyzone fan (don't judge me!), so I can't hear them words without hearing the Ronan Keating - 'Life is a Rollercoaster ' song merrily playing in my head. Anywho, moving swiftly on from my teenage crushes, the sentiment is there, life really is  a rollercoaster and no one know that better than those of us on the infertility track. Just last week I realised how seriously down and stressed I have been for months, but only when I started to feel better, as I finally had some movement on my own journey.  As many of you will know, back in November I was finally  referred for testing, as was my husband. He got his appointment soon after in January (gold stars all around for his swimmers FYI), and I thought that I would follow shortly after that as I was brought in for a pre-op assessment for a laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, D&C and dye test also in January. Unfortunately every time...

We all know how the old sayings go, 'Patience is a virtue' or 'Good things come to those who wait.' Well I can tell you now, the people who say them things are talking about waiting for something stupid like a kettle to boil (it won't if you watch it apparently), or a bus to come (don't worry two will be along at once...very shortly). They weren't, or aren't talking about waiting to conceive, or if they are, it should be added to the list of bullshit things people say to those struggling with infertility that should afford us infertiles the right to slap them across the face without consequence. I have discovered over the past couple of years, that trying to conceive is a lot of waiting. Waiting to ovulate, waiting for lines to appear (or not) on tests, waiting for periods to come (unfortunately they're always right on time!), waiting for doctors appointments, waiting for test results, waiting, waiting, waiting.  I currently find myself in ye...