Progress! (and ranting)

You know what would be so freaking awesome? If DH and I could have sex and BAM I get pregnant!  Isn’t that what normally happens?! I don’t think that’s how it works...OK, maybe it does but just not to us.  To get pregnant with no testing, no surgery, no medicine, and no IVF!? You people out there that can decide when you want to have a kid make me jealous. You’re like “humm, I think I’d like to have a child with an Oct birthday...” and BAM you do. Or you “don’t want to be pregnant in the hot summer” so BAM you aren’t because you timed it that way. For real. I have no concept of that.  And don't even get me started on women that get pregnant on accident. It completely blows my mind...

It’s been one headache after another with all of this testing (blood shipped to the wrong address, collection kit sent to the wrong clinic, Reprosourse forgetting to send me dry ice or just plain not calling me back, etc.). And now Fed Ex is on my crap list after they failed to deliver a shipment of dry ice this morning. I needed it for the sperm sitting in my fridge right now. Yes, you read that  right. DH was supposed to send his sample on dry ice to MA for testing today and now it’s all messed up because Fed Ex has no idea where the dry ice is. His sample is now invalid and most likely will have to be redone. Thanks Fed Ex. You just complicated my life even more. Now Reprosource has to get approval from my doc for the retesting and we get to start all this over again. I’m not happy.

I GOT THE REFERRAL TO AZ FOR SURGERY!!!!!!!

There was a a momentary outburst of panic on my end when the letter online from Tricare said that the referral was to ANOTHER new doc in AL and NOT AZ but I called Tricare and it was taken care of.   After talking with AZ the first time, surgery was supposed to be the week of Sept 24. Well, the hospital can’t schedule it for that week now for whatever reason and they want me on the 21st. That is like the worst timing ever.  That’s 7 days from the required consult (which I have to do to get a pre-authorization referral from Tricare).  I'll now have to fly back and forth and can't do both the consult and surgery all in one week. Can you tell that I’m in a bad mood? I bet you’re thinking, “but this will all be worth it in the end.” It’s only worth it if we get a take home baby from this. It has not been worth it up to this point. We’ve invested too much time and money in this to quit now. Ugh. Rant over.

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I now remember why we stopped all of this nonsense 4.5 years ago. It's already getting to be too much and the real fun hasn't even started yet.

DH and I are finally done with the Dr. B testing. In all, 26 vials of blood from me (separate fasting and non fasting tests), 7 vials from DH, and two semen analysis's. Now we wait. It should be 6ish weeks for results and then I should know my new med/supplement protocol.

This is from my first blood draw for Dr. B...that's what 19 vials of my blood looks like.  It really wasn't bad at all.  The staff that walked by would make comments like, "Wow that's a lot of blood!" and "Man, I'm glad that isn't me in that chair!" Gee thanks!  The lab techs and nurses were great and super kind about it. They made me sit there while my blood spun down and gave me ginger-ale and crackers before I was allowed to stand up.  I'm just glad this part is over.

Next up is figuring out the logistics of surgery...