Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Nov 26 Test Results

After enough complaining to the right people we finally got our test results from the Drs. appointment on Nov. 26 at UVA. Yes, you read it right, it took us 2 months to get test results and if we hadn't complained we might still be waiting. Once again everything was normal. Which is both a blessing and a curse. It means Troy is ridiculously healthy but it also means that there is no surgery or magic pill they can give him to increase his counts either.

That Dr. doesn't make the decision about whether we will qualify for the shared risk program at the other clinic but he does work directly with them for IVF. I asked him if he thought we would qualify. He said that, based on the test results so far, it is likely we will not; but since we are young there is a possibility we still could. I guess we won't know till we know.

I believe that God has a plan for us and that it will be revealed to us in time. I also believe that for every door that He closes, He opens a window.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

As of right now...

Hi everyone, Thanks for stopping by! I have never done this before so I thought I would give it a try. I was thinking I would start blogging so those of you who don't want to ask or don't know how to ask could know what is going on with us and those of you who don't want to know don't have to listen to my endless stories about doctors appointments.

Right now we have an IVF (invitro fertilization) consultation on Feb 4 in Charlottesville. The clinic has a shared risk program where for $20k + the cost of medications we can do four fresh cycles and unlimited frozen cycles (the number of frozen cycles depends on how many embryos are left after each fresh cycle) and if we don't get pregnant after that they will refund us the $20k. So as far as I understand on the 4th they will do a lot of tests to determine if we qualify for the program. Then they will take all the test results and a lot of other info like our BMI, alcohol and caffeine intake, etc. and a committee will meet to determine if we qualify. Keep you fingers and toes crossed and say a lot of prayers that we will!

And if you are still curious about all this, here is the link to clinic we are going to, it has a lot more info:
http://www.mjhreproductivemed.com/
I like their website is purple!