Update

So, I still haven't had a cigarette - last one was Friday night.  Yay for me.  I even stood with a guy at work today while he had one & didn't buckle.  It was my first day back at work, and there were times I really had the urge to go out & have one (well, would have had to buy some or bludge one first) ... but I resisted.  However, I did get a second coffee & a piece of cake for morning tea.  I never do this & am annoyed with myself for doing it.  Definitely not making a habit of it!

The reason I've had the last 2 days off work is not such great news, I'm afraid.  So, as I mentioned in my last post, I had an appointment on Saturday for a general check-up to get the go ahead for trying to conceive.  The things I was worried about & dreading were the thought of her lecturing me on: a) being a bit old, and b) could do with losing a few kgs.  She didn't say either of those - but what did happen was something that never occurred to me!  She felt an "abdominal mass" that was quite large, and seemed very concerned about it.  In her opinion, it was most likely a large fibroid but could also potentially be something more sinister on either my ovaries or bowel.  She rang an imaging place to book me in first thing Monday for a CT Scan, then back to see her ... and insisted that I couldn't go to work.  So I did that, and she seemed very relieved that it was in fact a fibroid.  I guess she was more worried about the possibility of something else than she let on. 

But she wasn't satisfied with the images, as they couldn't get a view of my ovaries.  So then she rang an ultrasound place & got me in urgently that afternoon.  So back to the same building I was in that morning!  The ultrasound was good - better than the CT Scan, that's for sure.  The Dr rang me afterwards to see how I went & was pleased they'd said the ovaries were fine.  She then rang me again on Tuesday, satisfied it was definitely uterine fibroids (one of them is 12cm x 10cm - that's massive!).  She has referred me to a specialist - I'm pleased with how much urgency she has treated this.  She clearly feels strongly that she wants us to be able to try for babies & there isn't time to muck around.  So anyway, it's been a bit of a whirlwind, but I managed to get an appointment with the specialist for Friday morning as there was a cancellation.

Will see what happens.  I was debating whether to blog about this, but decided I needed to tell somebody.  But no pretty pictures for this blog.  :-(