Well, I'm no saint. The egg donation is to GAL for me as well as to benefit the women.
I get to do something I have wanted to do since I was 19 and never done. It also helps me to feel better about what happened to my baby, so I get emotional comfort through doing it.
The fact that it also helps others to have a family is like the icing on the cake to me!
I recieved the info from the clinic today. As well as HIV tests and other blood tests, I also have to be injected with HCG (the pregnancy hormone which stops women from having a period and is thought to be responsible for causing morning sickness).
I am wondering if I will get sick. I will ask her. It doesn't put me off, but it's nice to be prepared!
I have to go to the clinic to get stuck with needles, early every morning (don't know why it has to be early), and I also have to have ultrasound scans of my ovaries (sonogram, do you call it in the States?) to see how many eggs are growing etc and they apparently will put a camera in the vagina so they can see more clearly (ouch!).
Then I have to have an operation where they pass a needle up through the vagina and kind of suck the eggs out of my ovaries via the needle. They said it can be done with either a local or a general anasthetic but I am asking for a general, I am too chicken to do it with a local!
I will get an en suite room with satillite TV
The nurse says she will call me in a couple of days to arrange for me to go and have coffee and chat at the clinic so that I can ask any questions before they start.
I think, next to having my own kids, this is the most exciting thing I've contemplated in a long time..
