What a waste of time

I phoned the doctors on Wednesday to chase my referral - it's been three months and I haven't had a letter from them so I was beginning to wonder whether the referral had actually taken place. Didn't really want to phone and had been thinking about doing it for a couple of weeks. Wednesday was spent toying with the idea and then I started to do some research on the Internet about the referral procedure in the area I live in.

It seems that if you haven't had a letter from the hospital in 4-12 weeks of referral you should go back to your GP and ask them to chase it. After reading this I was straight on the phone. Turns out I have wasted three months because the referral never took place. Deep down I knew this would happen, that is why I had been contemplating phoning for so long.

What did they blame it on? The fact that D has yet to produce a second SA. I know for a fact that the doctor said that she would not wait for this to happen before referring us. That it was just something the hospital would expect but that it would not stop the referral going ahead in April. So now I am on at D to get the bloody sample done so that we can move on. Thing is you can only take it in on a Tuesday morning and you have to have ejaculated 7 days prior to the test but no more than 3 days before the test. We haven't had sex for a couple of weeks because I have had my period, been away and now I am ill. Tonight is the night that we have to have sex if he is going to get that test in on Tuesday. Do I fancy sex? Not really, I have the snottiest nose ever and my throat feels like it has a cheese grater attacking it.

So, it doesn't look like the test is going to take place next week. In fact, I will be amazed if it takes place next week.

Here marks the start of another 3 months of waiting.