Today was our appointment at the London Women's Clinic in Darlington ~ after a terrible night's sleep due to stressing about it!
Firstly, I must say what a lovely place it was....a warm welcome from Sarah who checked all our forms were filled in correctly, the lovely waiting area, the friendly and reassuring nurse and consultant....a massive difference to what we experienced at Leeds so this definitely put me at ease. Also, a wall full of baby pictures, babies that had successfully been conceived through the LWC, so lovely, bit of a lump in the throat at that point.

Have to make a point here that the highlight of the trip for Pete was most definitely the drinks machine!! Free Galaxy hot chocolate, now you don't get that treatment in the NHS hospitals! Needless to say he had 3! 
Also, free parking and no sitting in crammed waiting rooms :)

So I had a scan and some blood tests, again the whole procedure was totally different to what I have experienced before...and then we sat down together with the consultant.

He told us, after seeing my scan, that he sees no reason why I could not egg share, the blood tests will check my ovarian reserve and confirm for definite if I can be accepted to be an egg sharer.....wonderful news!
If I get accepted it means we have a massively lower amount of money to raise for our IVF treatment and of course we will be doing something amazing too, helping another couple have a baby. 
And one more plus....the success rate is 50% which is huge and a lot higher than many places we have looked at :)

My plan now is to try and get my head back into a better place, to look at trying to come off my tablets and to look forward to 2013

'With over 20 years' experience, The LWC is among the leading centres for infertility treatment; our success rates compare with the best both nationally and internationally. The LWC has one of the highest egg-sharing success rates in the UK, in 2009 there was a 69% live birth rate for sharers and 51% for recipients'