The last part of the story that you have all read was about how I was staying in Rock Springs with my family until my new cycle started. And Randy went on home. Our plan with our doctor was to do another IUI.
When my cycle started it was actually the weekend so I had to wait until Monday to call. When I called Monday and got no answer I was a little confused, until my sister informed me it was a holiday! So I had to wait one more day to call. During this time I kept thinking of the questions that we had come up during the previous IUI procedure. And in a way I kept thinking, we need to get the answers before doing another IUI. I just didn't feel right about doing another IUI.
On Tuesday I called again. This time I got through! I told them that I was supposed to call on cycle day 1 and explained that that day was over the weekend. They looked up the notes from my doctor.
Now this is why I LOVE my doctor! She is so in tune with the spirit (I do not know what her religion is) and with us! She had written a note to re-work our plan because she had a few questions raised from our IUI too.
So I set up an appointment with her to talk about our plan over the phone.
The appointment wasn't for a couple of weeks and so I headed home to Randy. I had already updated him on what the doctor had said. We went about life as normal until the day we were scheduled to talk with our doctor. Another great thing about our doctor is that she is willing to talk with us over the phone for meetings like this.
So when our phone rang I got super excited! We were going to figure out and get some answers to our questions!
Another great thing about our doctor is that she is super intuitive. She knew the questions we were going to ask before we could ask them and she addressed each of them. One of our main questions was about Randy's sperm count. We had noticed that it was up and down and the differences were pretty drastic. She had noticed this as well and said she wanted to refer us to a male fertility doctor to get him checked out. We agreed and we got her referral and his name.
She also talked to us about deciding what was next. If the male fertility doctor said that he could do something for Randy then we could try another IUI or we may be able to get pregnant naturally. If there is nothing the doctor can do then she said we may end up needing to do IVF (In Vitro).
Randy and I are crossing our fingers and praying that whatever is causing his numbers to jump around is an easy fix and that we won't have to go the more expensive route. For those who don't know, one round of IVF can cost upwards of $20,000. And just like an IUI it's not guaranteed to work. Although the odds of it working are a lot higher.
We hope that he just has some sort of hormone imbalance because that is an easy fix. A little bit harder of a fix is if he needs surgery. We're hoping that this is not the case but it is still cheaper than going the IVF route. Also if either of these are the case then hopefully it will be fixed and we won't have any more trouble conceiving this baby and the ones to come.
After about a month (seriously a month!) we finally got through to the male fertility doctor. (This was last week) We now have an appointment set for Dec. 18! Randy has to get a lot of work done before we go. Including a very extensive blood test and another semen analysis. Although I know Randy is nervous, we both feel that this is what we need to be doing at this time in our journey.
It's been really nice for me because I feel a lot less stressed because I know that I am done being tested on, at least for now. No more ultrasounds or needles or drugs! I know I'll probably have to go back to that at some point but at least for now I do not have to worry or stress about any of that. It's Randy's turn ;)
We feel like we have been greatly blessed throughout our journey so far. Each of the doctors we've been to have tested, found something that needed fixed, fixed it and then gave us more questions that need answered. With each answered question, we feel we get one step closer to finally getting pregnant and having children of our own! We may not know how many more questions we'll have but we will keep searching and finding answers until there are no more because we are finally pregnant.
Love this!
I will still be posting every Tuesday and Thursday! I will update you all on our journey as we go through it. You'll just have to deal with some of our daily life ;)
Til next time!
Becca
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