Hello again,

I just wanted to update you on what has been happening in the past few days.
On Saturday there, as I was coming to the end of the 2 week wait, I began having cramps and really felt like it was all going to be over. Then Saturday night I got some brown spotting when I went to the toilet - we were both very upset and worried.
Next day, the spotting and cramps had gone - I only got minimal spotting twice Saturday night.
I began to notice one or two other things that were different but was afraid to believe them. You get so obsessed by symptoms during this time that you begin to wonder if it is real or imagined.
Test day was Tuesday (yesterday). I was awake from 01:30 yesterday morning and could not get back to sleep. I was feeling scared, anxious and more unhopeful with each passing hour.
We arrived early for our appointment and I told them about the spotting and other symptoms. The nurse took my blood off and said she would call us between 2 and 4pm.
So we had all day to wait and decided to head towards home and stop somewhere for breakfast.
On the way down the road, there was a mean driver who was a bit aggressive towards DH. DH shouted then started to cry - this pressure was really getting to us now.
We stopped at a Little Chef - hadn't been there for years and after seeing the restaurants on Heston Blumenthal's programme afew weeks ago, decided to go and have breakfast there. We enjoyed our breakfast and went home.
We waited and waited, tried to have a lie down but my heart was pounding out of my chest and I just couldn't settle. I also had one or two phonecalls from close family members asking, any news yet? I was beginning to feel a bit ratty because if I knew anything, did they not think I would have told them, lol!
The phone rang just before 2pm yesterday and I answered it and spoke to the nurse, gave my date of birth and she told me the test was positive! HCG level 151 which is good, so I'm told. She told me other things and I can barely remember them now, except that I have my first scan 3 weeks from now and to call them if I had any further spotting meantime.
The nurse called back this morning because I had been crying yesterday with joy and she thought I was upset. She offered for us to go tomorrow for a further blood test to reassure us, said the level will have hopefully doubled by then, fingers crossed.
So there we have it, all our efforts beginning to pay off for us. We do realise however that this is just the very beginning and that there are so many more hurdles to get over in the coming months.
I will keep you posted with what happens over the next few weeks.
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