View from the Potting Shed

Yesterday Jane and I were kindly invited to dinner at Jane’s parents’. Our kitchen is in an odd state of semi-packedness. The crockery has been packed, but not the cutlery; the chopping boards and sharp knives have gone but not the pans; the microwave and toaster have gone, but not the kettle. […]

Longtime readers will remember the Spong mincer advert I posted last November. While sorting through my bookcases this morning I came across the same volume again, Getting Married, published by the British Medical Association in 1972. (Which I still don’t understand, as my parents got married in 1968!)
Opening it randomly how delighted was […]

Photograph from iStockphoto.com.
The long awaited update on the fertility category very nearly didn’t happen as both Jane and I thought that our 3pm appointment today was at 3:30pm.
About an hour previous I had opened my filing cabinet, pulled out the “Fertility” folder and checked that the appointment card was there. It was. […]

Not having a photograph of the wee man out in the real world this ultrasound scan picture will have to do!
Jane and I were woken this morning by the telephone ringing, shortly after 05:40. It was my brother Edmund on his mobile phone from St John’s Hospital, Livingston to give us the great news […]

Sign spotted at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
This afternoon Jane and I had an appointment at the Human Genetics Department at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. Now that we’re on the IVF waiting list, and given that I have a kidney condition called Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), which has a 50% […]

The news this morning took us completely by surprise. I’m still taking it in, to be honest.
We were at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for our follow-up appointment with the fertility expert, to get the results of my two sperm tests and Jane’s laparoscopy, and to see where we go from here.
I’d previously blogged:
The […]

Jane is still feeling very poorly. This morning I took Jane to the health centre to have her stitches removed by the practice nurse, who took one look at Jane and called in the duty doctor who whisked her off to her surgery.
It was confirmed that Jane has picked up an infection and has […]