The last few weeks have been, well, busy in the world of infertility. Really since the end of November, it seems like every week brings with it a bit more bad news. Or maybe bad is not the best word - just another difficulty, or roadblock as I like to think of them.
At the beginning of the month, the plan was for IVF in February. By the end of the beginning of the 3rd week of January, IVF had been moved to April 1st and several new roadblocks had been put up. Then we went for a second opinion at a different clinic and we're back to a February IVF cycle. Back and forth, back and forth....
However, just tonight I got more not so great news that my egg quality and/or quantity may be less than stellar so they will need to up the amount of the stimulation medications they will use. Awesome! Like I wasn't already excited enough about the meds.... I know it's really not that bad (and I've actually heard the "after" meds - progesterone - are way worse than the before, but still.) And I do really trust that the new doctor will be monitoring me closely for response and adjusting accordingly, but it would truly be nice if something in this process wasn't more difficult than it was originally thought to be!
I also feel fairly confident in my assessment that IVF doctors are generally crazy. I know a lot of doctors are, but this group may have more than their fair share. The original guy I met with in definitely on my less than favorite list and the new one, while I do think he knows what he's doing and I really felt like he has a good protocol in place and listens to what you want, he has got to be one of the least professional people I've ever met in my life. But I will take that over the just totally creepy feeling I got from the first guy! I guess when you have the corner on a market like this, people will put up with a lot, but geez!
There are still more insurance questions to answer and more tests to be done, so I've learned to not count that we will be moving forward with IVF in February (even though it's only a week away!), but I'm also trying to stay cautiously optimistic and not loose hope completely. Hopefully the news tonight will be the last of it's kind for this week at least and maybe, just maybe, we'll get some better news - like we have our pre-approval from the insurance company!
Despite all the turmoil in that part of our life, we did get some AWESOME news last week - that Carl and Kathleen will be staying in St. Louis for the foreseeable future - and we're beyond happy about this. I had just started to give up faith that it would happen and there you go! So, I will keep the faith and believe that we can get past any roadblocks that come our way!
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