Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The road to IVF

Ok i will try to keep this short.
November 2010 we finally decided it was time to start trying for a child. By Febuary 2012 I was finally able to get an appt with the OBGYN that I wanted to see.  By then we had been trying for a few months and nothing.  I have always had problems not being regular and my doctor new that that would be a problem for us to get pregnant.  She did blood work and gave me a fertility drug called clomid because she was pretty sure I have what is called PCOS.  Well, then Alex got his job and had had to in Georgia before it was time to try with the meds.  So Alex had to be in Georgia for his new job by Feb 28th 2011.  I was not able to join him until April 1st.  It took us a while to find a new doctor in Georgia.  We finally did and we started back up on the clomid for 3 months.  After 3 months they suggest that you don't stay on it any longer because if you stay on it to long it can increase your chance to get cancer.  So I went off that.  We did a lot more test and blood work.  Confirmed that I do have PCOS, my tubes are not blocked and Alex is not the problem.   By this time it was November 2011 and we were heading home for the holidays so once again everything was put on hold until we got back.  We got back to Georgia in Dec and it seemed like Alex was never home or I wasn't home (due to me starting school in Sept). We spent one month just just trying to see each other.  Then January hit.  He was gone to California for almost 2 weeks for a sales meeting then he went straight to Florida for a conference.  So I really didn't see him in January.  Then in Febuary 2012 they sent him on a cover to Texas for 3 months.  He wasn't back until the 2nd week in May.  So we had about 4 weeks together during this time I was trying to get all my school finished.  They then decided to send him on another cover to New Hampshire in June 2012.  This time I was able to go with him since school was finished.  We didn't know if we were going to stay here or go back to Georgia so we didn't want to start more test and doc visits until we knew.  So in Oct it was finally official we would stay. We found a Doc pretty quick and started doing a lot more tests.  Then it was Holiday season again and this time I was gone for a month.  So in Jan we started up the tests again and found out that I also have a under active thyroid.  So after a lot of blood work, ultrasounds and more tests on Alex we finally put together a plan to start the long process of IVF in Febuary 2013.
The story of the IVF journey will be posted once we have completed the journey.

9 Years!

Today marks our 9 year anniversary.  Wow does time go by fast.  It has been through quite an adventure these past few years.  But wow has it been fun.  I don't think we have ever been able to actually celebrate our anniversary but for 2 of the years.  This year is no different but I love him all the same.