Rambling to follow...#sorryboutit.

So these last few days I've been sick. Off and on fever, sore throat, body aches and just all over yuckiness. So I headed over to Urgent Care, where they ruled out strep and the flu...so who knows what it was! The doctor gave me some medicine and it seems to have worked! I feel so much better! She suggested I take a day off to rest so I did just that! While I rested up I made some phone calls to figure out the logistics of our first IVF cycle.

You see, we live all the way here in CMNJ and unfortunately, we aren't close to anything...except a Walmart...and especially NOT Dr N. at RAD so we have to find a doctor's office who can/will monitor me during the first 12 days of the cycle. (This is the time when I need to go for daily ultrasounds and blood work.  They monitor me until they consider the eggs to be "ready" or mature and then they give me a shot that tells my body to ovulate and then they retrieve and then a few days later they transfer) Anyway, I digress. This first part requires a lot of meds...I mean, a lot.  Like pills and shots and the blood work too. So to add the extra stress of a 2 hour drive to RAD and back again, every day for 10-12 days is not something that I consider to be ideal. So Dr. N suggested I put some calls in to a few doctors "down here" (the closest being 20 minutes away).

So I started there. I called my OBGYN, who I love. Nope sorry, they don't do it. OK. I didn't think they did. So then I called the leading fertility specialists in South Jersey. They have their own "outside monitoring" coordinator! This could be it! My lucky phone call! Well, SJFERT doesn't take insurance for non patients. It's all out of pocket.  They charge a one time 100$ convenience charge, 230$ per ultrasound and 60$ per blood draw! That's almost 300$ plus gas per visit...for 10-12 days! Yeah, sorry. NOOO! We just can't justify that kind of spending this early in the process. My next call was to the High Risk doctor, who I'll have to see anyway once we are pregnant. The nurse there said "there is no way ANY doctor will do that kind of work for another doctor." Ummm, ok Isabel...calm the F down! I didn't ask for your sass!

Finally, I called a clinic in Vineland...which is an HOUR away. They offer outside monitoring. To the best of the front desk lady's knowledge, they take insurance for said monitoring. They have same day blood work. All available in their MARLTON office...which is an hour and 45 minutes away! CURSES! She said they can do the ultrasounds in Vineland but they can't guarantee the blood work everyday. I don't know what that means really...but I left a message for the coordinator and I await her call back. Unfortunately, I think I'll find myself making a lot of trips to DE over the next month...but it will all be worth it. That much I know!

But speaking of trips to DE...I am super stressed out over the amount of days I'll need to take off for this. A day here, a day there. Then 2 more days over here.  It is seriously stressing me out. My hair is falling out! OK not really...but I feel it coming. Once it is all planned out, I will feel better. But right now, I find myself giving Matt extra apologies and stealing a few extra hugs...<3

I leave you with a picture of our littlest fur baby, Eleanor. Who came to us in December.