Archive for May, 2008
The Cost of Doing Business
21 May 2008IVF: 11,000
ICSI: 1,500
Meds: 5,000
Freeze Embryos: 1,000
No insurance discount: -2,000
Home pregnancy tests: 50
Positive Negative blood test = Priceless $16,550
No News is Bad News
20 May 2008I saw that on someones infertility blog once “No news is bad news”. In other words, if you don’t hear anything in the near future it’s probably because I have nothing to shout from the rooftops.
Results Due
20 May 2008I had my blood test this morning. We’re not holding out much hope. Today is 17DPO and every pee stick test has been negative - including this morning. While it is still possible, it is very unlikely that the blood test results will be different. Some women never register a positive result on a pee stick no [...]
Snow White
15 May 2008So of course I broke down early and tested. I’m only human. So far all I’ve gotten are Negatives. It’s still early - 12 DPO, but I see many women on the boards getting positives at 8, 9, 10 days… So, early or not, there was a possibility. And there is still a possibility. You’re [...]
6DP3DT
12 May 2008For those of you not in the “fertility know” that means 6 days post 3 day transfer. The embryos were transferred back 3 days after retrieval - and it has been 6 days since then. That would make me officially 9 DPO (days past ovulation). There are all kinds of crazy acronyms and abbreviations you [...]
A Grain of Sand
7 May 2008Transfer Day finally arrived.
We headed out to the hospital a little early yesterday morning, not expecting much traffic. Of course there was an accident on the bridge which caused Drew an enormous amount of anxiety which he managed to hide quite well. I was slowly floating down into my (prescribed) Valium coma and wasn’t too [...]
Attrition
4 May 2008Egg - or should I say “ovum” - retrieval was successful. We had to get up at 5 so we could shower and be at the hospital by 7am Saturday morning. There were a few difficulties when the parking garage we normally used was closed, so we used a metered spot. Then the automatic doors to [...]
Raiding the Hen House
1 May 2008All I can think about anymore is how tired I’m. The meds make me tired. I’m tired of getting up at 5 every day to take the ferry and then a bus to get to the DR by 8. I’m tired of spending 20 minutes every night mixing and injecting medications. I’m too tired to [...]