It's been an incredibly long time since I posted anything here, mostly because a lot has changed but also we're still in the preliminary stages of the IVF. However, things are started to come together and it's time to pick up where I left off.
Here are the important points since my last post:
1. In December 2015 we moved into our first home together where we'll be raising our family. It involved moving county so I'm now in a new job which is causing a fair amount of physical issues for me but that'll be explained in another post.
2. In February 2016 we got married! It was a magical, wonderful day.
3. In April 2016 we had a multidisciplinary meeting with the team in Sheffield about the IVF. All of our fertility results have come back perfect, our funding is in place and the team at Guy's Hospital in London have created the necessary genetic test for us. At this meeting, I finally also got my diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Type 3 confirmed by a geneticist (although they now apparently prefer to refer to it as Joint Hypermobility Syndrome). Oddly the clinching factor was a strange resistance to local anaesthetic which I brought up - I've mentioned this during dental or medical procedures a few times and been scoffed at!!
So that (very briefly) brings us to today! We have a lot of stuff coming up over the next few months (including our honeymoon) after which we will be officially starting IVF and we are provisionally booked in for egg collection at Guy's Hospital in the first week of September.
Our next appointment in Sheffield to go through the specifics of the fertility treatment is on 16th June so things from that front will probably go a bit quiet for a while however hopefully I'll be keeping you up to date with other things relating to health and fitness, food and anything else I enjoy talking about.
