decision.

after talking to a tough counsel of my close girlfreinds and getting the best advice.
i have decided i will tell my employers im about to do IVF.
Soooo when i psyche out at someone or headbutt a 80year old they will know why a a ah ha ha ha ha ha.
over and out
im off to lonestar to eat like a american tonight
yumskis

Living on one income!

Haha this , I found funny,

Last night we received our consent forms to sign my eggs and andrew sperms away.
Plus more papers for urine tests and blood tests (for angus too! ha ha)

So thought mmmm rissoles and salad will do for din dins.

Hiff them in the oven, poor a red , start reading our 3000 page book on what we need to know and start signing away our bodies.

About a hour and a half into reading i remember there was something in the oven, and pull out what went in looking like fat meaty balls comes out like black charcoal golf balls.

So its black golf balls and sauce for dinner as by now we aint that hungry.

Angus grumbles says "SEE WE CAN LIVE ON ONE WAGE IF WE KEEP EATING LIKE THIS!'

"THESE ARE ACTUALLY QUITE YUMMY!'
nice try , trying to make me feel better ha ha.

mindreaders!

Sunday-
Start taking the contraceptive pill ( to stop my body producing a egg this month)
& was meant to go and get a blood test for HIV HEP A,C,B FSH levels blah blah blah
on day 2 of my cycle which falls on a SUNDAY! so we go to the hospital A & E on sunday, get told all the labotamists (not sure if that is what they are called? ) are finished at 11am (it is now 11.15am)
And i will have to wait around a few hours to see if someone will do it for me.
After seeing a broken arm patient , scabies patient , Big lady on dialysis and many more i text angus and ask him to ring the nurses at Fert associates in hamilton and ask if i can just get it done on Monday morning!
They tell him i shouldve been at hospital at 9am Sunday morning!
What the hell!
Am i a mindreader was i meant to know this?
Oh and they were a bit grumpy he said.

So that was it i got up walked out of the hospital and got the test done this morning with the lovely ladies at Mount Medlab. Who couldnt understand why i needed to be at hospital at 9am either. Prob something to do with couriering results to hamilton at certain times.

Well anyway its another lovely week in paradise.

Ate so much on the weekend i have a michelin tyre sitting over my jeans (wouldnt have anything to do with the red wine i consumed HA!)

Better cut down the red wine consumption so i dont get withdrawls when i am meant to stop he he

DAY 1

Yes we are ready to start!!!
Day 1 has arrived wake up at 3am with the usual cramping ready to die pain, but im so excited!!!!!
i even ring the clinic somewhere between 4-6am ha ha to leave the message im meant to leave saying its my day 1,
they apparently will ring me back and explain what is going to happen and when etc ....oh after laughing at me for ringing so early ha ha bet there used to it.
andrew has just left for work after puking up his breakfast, one day he will realise he cant handle beer like he used to hee hee poor guy.

the journey begins

So i ring Fert.Associates hamilton today and mention to them it is near the end of May (close enough to June)

And im due for my AF (period) so could i please start my IVF cycle now instead of waiting another 4 weeks in my 4 year journey to get pregnant.
And they said YES!!
so as soon as i get my AF i wil ring the clinic and they will instruct me where i go from there.

From what others have told me and the info i have, i will be put on the pill for the next couple of weeks and given a rough schedule on what will be planned to happen over the next 6-7 weeks of my journey.
re: stabbing myself with injections using suppositories and everything else that is lovely jubbly, Im so excited ...........
Better hav a red wine tonight to celebrate.
Uh oh am i meant to stop drinking now ....
better find out.......
tomorrow

MADAM MUCKY PANTS

And that brings us to today :)

Welcome welcome!!!

Uh oh i made a mistake on the home page , i thought i would show Angus Grumbles our little bloggy page

BIG MISTAKE...............................

he has laughed constantly for the past 15 minutes at the picture of Boss at the top of the page that he so lovely named KARATE KAT!!

OR madam mucky pants (as i like to call her)

I have never seen the old boy cry so much he reckons his eyes are stinging and i cant get him to eat his dinner typical men ! ha ha need pictures to get any male reaction haha.

ok ok so sorry Angus has decided that when ever anyone is down you just need to look at little miss madam mucky pants photo and it will cheer you up in no time!!!!

She is my fist baby 13yrs old so very retired and very moody and with a big ASS attitude!!!!

She is the one and only child as far as she can see and acts like it.... as you will see in pics too come :)



Maybe i should just stick to cats?





o this was madam knitting a blanket for her arch enemy tooty (my black cat 3yrs old) who she loves to hate :)

IVF Date

ok so after obsessing for so many years and finally been told we need to do IVF i started freaking out and thinking maybe this month we will fall pregnant ?? and then we wont have to do IVF?

Poor Angus had to put up with me telling him when we needed to be getting ACTIVE and not ,if you know what i mean :)

well if you want to put strain on a marriage try doing this ha ha i have to laugh looking back though,

oh i will apologise now if some of my blogs sound ........................... um..................well a little bit mental really, as this journey just really brings the total extremes of your personality out, even walking past a pregnant woman at the wrong time of the month would break me down and poor angus would have to console me for a whole day !! (which is pretty easy when you think about it , blue cheese and red wine please ) hee hee.

Ok say we were given August07 as our IVF 1st cycle date, (for all you non infertiles) which basically means (1st day of period ring the clinic we are in for a ride!)

Well july comes around and im still freaking out major time as by now i have been online and found some great websites etc... oh baby........babycentre australia. etc etc. well i start to think oh im sure i will fall pregnant naturally maybe we shold put IVF off for 6 months? and just have a break from all the TTC(trying to conceive) book a holiday in oz and just not think about it ?

Well Mr Pullen was all for this as he has lived and breathed with Mrs Nightmare infertile Pullen for the past 3 years and pretty much jumped at the chance of a holiday and break from all the TTC crap we had dealt with.

So we booked a holiday for March08 and thats what we did :)

This is Digby at Dreamworld very cuddly wee man.

Practising

May 05
we were starting to wonder if there may be a reason we werent falling preggers went to doctor, they taught me what dates you are most fertile etc etc and told us to keep practising
so we carried on practising :)

June 05

We moved to Papamoa Tauranga awesome little beachy town, and got jobs and carried on PRACTISING!! Gosh this is a EXCITING story ~!

Dec 05

After 15 months of PRACTISING and the most painful AF's (period) of my life to the point i was being sick and needed a dark hole for 8 hours and 5boxs of Nurofen plus!!
We saw my doc again, she thought i may have PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) or Endometriosis! (two massive words i really had no idea about )
So referred to the specialist at tauranga hospital (3months wait)
We were in got scheduled for a Laporoscopy & Dye ( more big words? )

June 06
Had my little op and was off work for 2 weeks, 1st week for my tummy to reduce to normal size as they pump you with so much gas you look 8 months pregnant.
And the second week was because i nearly died from haemorroids YES YES YES i hear everyone groaning asking why i need to put this stuff on here, but as you will no doubt learn i am a VERY GRAFFIC person so there be no bushes i be beating around okeekokee?

July 06
Ok so off we go on our merry way back to work and put on hormone pills (clomid) for 6 months blood tests etc blah blah.
NOTHING HAPPENS MMMMMMMMMMMMM

Dec 06
See doc, she sends me to Hamilton Fertility Associates where we are tested etc and told we need to do IVF (pubicly funded) so put on the waiting list.

TICKETY BOO!!

Wow!!! Where do i start??

ok the reason im writing a blog is for my own sanity i think oh and my husbands, so i dont drive him crazy with my constant ramblings of IVF and breeders and everything else that sometimes jumps out of my mouth for no apparent reason.

Well there is a reason

Andrew and I were married on Treasure Island, Fiji , October 2004.
Me 25yrs and Andrew 31yrs (or Pulley as you will get used to all my nicknames for him)
It was a gorgeous day, we had 13 guests and the best party afterwards
ok ok ok ok
husband fell asleep at table
my dress broke
and then we all jumped in the pool

Our kinda party really :)

well anyway we had decided to go off the pill in September 04 as it takes a few months for the pill to get out of your system

so all in all everything was ticketyboo