As you may have guessed by the silence, it has been a busy summer for us. In anticipation of the expenses of travelling, fertility drugs and clinic costs, Steve has opted to work 2 jobs this summer; both his full time job with the Mobile Work Crew and Landscaping in the evenings and on most weekends.
Since my last post, I have been busily looking into our options for the FET (Fetal Embryo Transfer). The Embryos are at a clinic in Thousand Oaks, California, near L.A.. It is usually cheaper to go to the clinic where the Embryos were conceived, but the downside in this case was that we don't have any connections near there. We found a clinic in Roseville near Sacramento, California that seemed like a good option. We have friends near there who were willing to have us stay with them for several weeks while I was preparing physically for the FET and needing to be monitored at the clinic. As we began to prepare to have our Embryo records sent, it became obvious that the cost of this clinic was going to be much higher than we had first expected. As a final confirmation, the clinic was also requesting that the genetic parents must also provide new blood tests. This was an unnecessary complication since the original clinic already had all that information.
Last Tuesday, I received a phone call from Dr. Kumar, a fertility specialist from Fertility and Surgical Associates of California. To make a long story short, I had my initial phone consultation appointment the next morning and we will be going to Thousand Oaks for the FET around the third week of October! The good news is, I can have most of the lab and ultrasound monitoring done from home, so we only have to travel there for 5 or 6 days. (This wasn't an option with any of the other clinics that we talked to.) Everything is comming together, all of a sudden we are moving forward!
Steve and I have both been really praying about the timing of this trip and we both feel that God is with us. We have been working hard to be able to afford to travel and we are trusting that God will provide for any unforeseen expenses.
In the beginning of September I will start hormone treatment to prepare my body for the transfer. It is kinda hard to believe that we are at the final phases of waiting! Just over two months from now I will be taking a pregnancy test!
