We had to leave my house to Sutton for my PET (positron emission tomography) scan ridiculously early this morning, at about 7am. To conduct the scan, a short-lived radioactive tracer was injected into me, and I was left lie down for an hour for it spread across my body.  The actual scanning took about 40 minutes.  This was painful, as the bed I was lying on was very narrow, I had to lie flat my arms above my head, which made my breathing difficult.  I just kept thinking, I want to have this done, so just put up with it. 

Apparently, I will be radioactive for 24 hours post scan, and should not sit close by for long period of times next to pregnant women and children under five!  Sadly, I did not glow in the dark. 

After the scan, we set off to the Barts, which is near St Paul’s cathedral and tube station.  My fertility clinic appointment was at 4pm, but I was not seen until 5pm.  By this time we had not had any breaks or lunch, and I was totally exhausted by this week of trekking around to various appointments.  Even Suzie was worn out, and she did not even have an underlying illness!  

I was given various options instead of egg harvesting, but I had already made up my mind, and explained I wanted to go ahead with the freezing the eggs.  They were happy with this.  I was given hormones to hopefully promote my periods to start in a about a one week’s time.  This is just the first stage of this whole process, which in the end will involve injecting three different hormones subcutaneously (under the skin).  I am not sure how I am going to do the injecting, yet, considering how scared of needles I am.  This could be interesting.

PET-scanner, not the one I used, but pretty much the same.