Adventures galore

O'boy have I been on some adventures lately.
Both in my physical life and in my ED-IVF life!
Two weeks ago we went to Madrid, Spain for a little mini-vacation. We should have known something should go wrong when we came to the airport and most flights where cancelled and out of the rest most where delayed, like our flight.
This darn ash cloud coming from the Icelandic volcano almost grounded our flight too. The Stockholm airport closed about the same time we landed in Madrid and it remained closed for several days.
The end result was that we got stuck in Madrid and all other transportation options, which were slim pickings to begin with, filled up very quickly.

We came on a Thursday and were supposed to go home Sunday the same week. I was supposed to take an injection with medicine to down regulate me - to suppress my own cycle. This injection was left at home, because while packing the Tuesday and Wednesday before there were no indications of this airline snafu!
So, after som major circus moves and angry, disappointed hours, we finally figured out that since we were in Spain most medications are sold over-the-counter, w/o prescriptions... Anywho as soon as that problem was solved, we focused on finding transportation home, something that would take us home no matter what. Our airline tickets were re-booked for the next-coming Friday, but it was in no way a sure thing that the plane would take off and what policy the airline was going to adopt!
With the help of my close friends and some of our family members back in Sweden we got hold of other stranded people and it was decided as many as we could find would go to the Swedish Embassy the next day and see what possible assistance they could give us.
I had decided to let others have a go at arranging our common journey home, but after a little while of a lot of talk but no action, I couldn't help myself and called the most interesting lead for arranging a bus to come to Madrid and take us home.

To make a long story short, what started with a couple of mini vans coming to pick us up in Madrid ended up a full-grown double-decker bus. What probably made nobody interested in being in charge was the shear number of potential people calling and wanting to go with. The embassy finally accepted some responsibility and agreed to handle the list of names for the ride!
The person at the embassy that we had the most contact with Eva, had thought about our situation with medications and suggested we just pop in at a pharmacy and ask for the stuff we needed. She even offered to come with and translate, since neither of us speak any Spanish to speak of, but another of the stranded people came with and helped me out!

When we finally came home, after a 50+ hour ride on a bus w/ an unusable on-board toilet (first because it was full and disgustingly dirty, and after emptying it at the Spain-France border just dirty and yucky).
The bus ride in itself was an adventure that I'm too lazy to recap this late afterward. Maybe if I'd had internet access during the bus ride I could have commented all things live, but alas...

The next adventure was more of an emotional roller coaster than anything else. After taking the down-regulating injection on the scheduled day, I got my period only about a week after - last time it was two - and at the ultrasound exam a couple of days later a cyst was discovered on the same ovary as before only this time it was almost twice as big as the last time. After some disagreement between my two doctors regarding what to do next, I took a blood test (Estradiol/E2 or in Swedish Östradiol) to find out whether I was down-regulated or not. If I wasn't the whole treatment was in jeopardy!
As it turns out I am down-regulated and the treatment is going ahead as planned!

I am so sick of thinking about all this and so sick of the side effects - like being emotional, so emotional that I start crying at the drop of a hat! I also dislike feeling nauseous - like when I was pregnant only it's worse now...

I hope this all goes well, at least it has been proven that I CAN get pregnant, I hope there are no more hurdles for us to go over...