Answers

First of all, my apologies to anyone who called or emailed me in the last month and never got a response. Let me just say that life/work has been CRAZY busy. Not that this justifies my lack of response I just hope you can understand.

Since I last posted a lot has happened. We met with Dr. Barnett over spring break and discussed our plan for IVF. We will be starting the process in May and until then will do some pre-IVF appointments and orientation.

One of these appointments happened on Friday. They did a saline sonogram (which is much like an HSG in that they insert a catheter to get a look at the uterus). It is not fun especially when the catheter slips out and they have to insert it twice! Nevertheless, I was glad I had taken the day off of work. The purpose of the sono was to make sure my uterus looked normal and healthy. Well....they found an endometrial polyp. Which according to Dr. Barnett, is not a big deal in my case. You see mine is small and is just on the border of being in the wrong place. If it had been shifted slightly to the left, it would require surgery to remove because it would interfere with implantation for IVF. Thank God we do not have to do surgery! This could explain part of why we were unsuccessful with the IUI's. Too bad we took a long way to find another part of the answer.

Our next step in the process will be attending an IVF orientation on April 24th. We find great humor in that we have to be orientated to obtain parenthood. There is just something ironic about that. Honestly, I'm excited to learn about the process and clam the fears of the unknown.

We then go through another medication training May 2. IVF adds two new meds to the round and we apparently need to learn how to administer them. We will start the meds towards the end of May and will be doing the IVF when I get out of school at the first of June.

We pray that this is all we need. We are tired of the emotional rollercoaster and spending all this money to get our dream. However, we are also very humbled that God has given us this journey and we know He will never leave our sides through it. Thank you all for your continued prayers and I will try to be better about keeping you updated.

Until next time....