Tuesday, August 24, 2010

All about the drama with the weather and the electricity and waiting 3 plus hours to see the doctor.

I don't know I haven't seen weather like this ever before.
It was a crazy summer of storms,floods and excessive heat.
More than 20 days this summer I seen above 30 degrees heats about 15 of them close to 35 degrees. I don't like heat anything over 25 degrees is too much.

Anyways wouldn't be so bad if the floods didn't screw our sewarge system irreversably
or the I don't know how many powercuts several of them for 14 hours.
I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for my ivf medications which need to be kept between 2 and 8 degrees at all times.

The night before last the power was cut and the meds were 10 hours in a fridge without electricty :( then we brought them to Danas's brothers house and then took them back again coz the power was back.
Then last nite it all happened again.
Storms power gone in the middle of the night but luckily this time it came back after one hour.
But it woke us up and kept us stressing for that hour as we were both sure it would be gone for a long time.
Those two nights in a row plus the time it cut in the evening last week.
I mean come on 3 times in one week and at least 4 other times this summer.
Especially since this morning was the time for me to start using that medication for the first time in this new Ivf cycle.

And its the force of nature that keeps threatening us.
Although its obvious the cables aren't up to standard in our area :(
Every time the storms start I just pray and pray for everyone and everything but especially that the power won't go out.
It's so unfair we just need it to hold on for two weeks now but the forecast is threatening and we're not able to do anything except hope we can pull through.

Its not hot anymore well not proper hot but the weather is still so extreme with these flash flood storms.

Now about the rest of what happened yesterday the Blood test and my doctors appointment.
Went to get my Blood taken before 8am all with the stress of Not been able to shower because the electricty was gone.
Which meant we had no water at all.
Our water is by on electric pump so when there's no electricity
there's no water.
Came home after 10am gave up all hope of power coming back in time and went to Danas's brothers house to bring the medicine to his fridge and to get a shower.
Thank God he was home that day because I needed to have a ultrasound which yesterday was cd2 eek.
I probably would have had to cancel otherwise.
Ok so all that done
We arrived at the doctors for just before 12.
My doctor didn't arrive until 12.30 but I didn't have set appointment( she wants it that way not me)
So waiting,waiting,waiting
at 13.40 we got in to see her
only because I had a deadline of on injection at 2pm which I needed to get the medication off her.
Got the meds Injected in broad daylight in the car.
Man that was some crazy shit never did that before all my other injections were always at home.
I needed to get my ultrasound done so I had to go back and wait. And again waiting,waiting,waiting
for about 40 mins
finally got in for the scan.
And found out my blood results were a little bit high so we had to wait until today to start the injections.
So now I inject one med at 7.30am and one at 2pm every day for the next 2 weeks +/-
My next appointment is on Friday.
I hope we don't have to wait so long.
Anyways after we went shopping I had on emotional spell with crying and crazy hot flashes I've been having on/off hot flashes but yesterday they reached peak level. Air conditioning in the shopping centre didn't help.
Anyways way too much drama. Then you know the rest.
Today I'm trying to recover but I'm going through anxiety combined with massive excitement to be finally getting somewhere and hot flashes and tiredness
This time is at least 5 times more complicated than last time but the focus I have in all of this is
It's all about the hope for a positive end result.

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