Apparently they're just waiting for CD1 to start the protocol and from what I've been told that should start any day now, hopefully over the weekend. Once it's started, I should get a timeline for her protocol and a better idea of retrieval dates. They're still saying late September/early October alhtough our doctor says late September. I've asked what her protocol is mostly because no one has said and I don't know. I'm not sure if they'll tell me or not but I can't see why not. I was going to speculate as to what I thought it might be but decided that it would be pointless. So, we go forward anxiously waiting to hear more.
I have started wondering what we should give the donor as a thank you. I haven't talked to V. about this yet, but I will. I don't feel right not giving her something. I know we aren't allowed to identify ourselves to her, and we won't. But what does one give someone you don't know but who is giving you a very very precious gift? I've been looking at her profile again and she likes pottery and scrapbooking. Would a small piece of pottery be okay? Not being a scrapbooker I have no idea what someone might want. Should we be looking at giving her some thing from Lush, Body Shop or H2O? Or maybe a gift card someplace? I know that she will be in Toronto for probably 5 days, something like that. Do we give her a gift card to the large mall downtown for her to buy what she'd like? A gift certificate to a restaurant? It all sounds so impersonal for what she's doing for us. Help!
Anyway, that's if for now. I hope everyone has an enjoyable Labour Day weekend.
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How exciting! Did I mention we will be cycle buddies? My retrieval (well, my donor's retrieval) is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 19th. This is our first DE cycle too and I have no idea what kind of gift to give her. We found her through a mutual friend and she is not even being compensated outside of reimbursing her expenses (her choice) so I would really like to get her something.
Which makes me wonder . . . you are compensating her, why a gift? I always knew I would even if we were compensating her, but it never occurred to me to compensate our sperm donor when we tried that. Hmmm . . .
Well, good luck!
Yeah, I know she's getting compensated, but I still want to give her something small, to thank her personally. Otherwise she's just a number. :) I'm not sure why, and I think if I hadn't been in the IF world for several years, and been reading blogs of others who have done DE, I might not have thought about it. I think it's different when someone uses donor sperm. I've not heard of anyone giving a gift to a sperm donor, possibly because their part in it, although extremely important, isn't as invasive to them as for an egg donor.
I think that's a lovely thought. I prefer to give an american express card. Maybe, it's just me, but I tend to not use gift cards when they are for specific stores. I store the cards where where I can't find them, and then when I need it I don't have it. With an amex card, I can usually use it on my next purchase, which means that I'll keep it in my wallet.
Barnswallow Pottery - North Pickering - very nice stuff...
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