Catching you up to speed...

Ya know, when all this started I was so good about keeping my journal. That was so important to me because I just knew one day I would look back on those memories... Um... please, why would I want to go back there?? Thats when the journal became the devil. It was depressing to write about how nothing was working... We had tried for months and everyday I was writing about lab work, new tests, conversations with the nurse, and complaining to my notebook that we were not getting anywhere. So... I quit. And I'm kind of glad I did. So here's the "nut shell" version of the past year to get you to where we are now.

I was diagnosed with a condition called PCOS (aka: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) in 2007 so we were informed at that point by the doctor that we could potentially have some issues conceiving but... "not to worry, lots of girls with PCOS get pregnant without an issue". Sometimes I wish I could go back to that moment and kick him in the knee for jinxing me. So fast forward to October 2008 and we have officially started infertility treatments. We started with a few rounds of oral medication, which lead to several months of some crazed lunatic taking over my ability rationalize like a normal human being. I like to describe the "Clomid Girl" (as I became known) as normal Aaron, except when I didnt hear what I wanted to hear, my mouth would open really really wide and this crazy demon arm would grow out of my mouth and reach across rooms to grab these people saying bad things and shake them until they were limp noodles. I swear I had no control... The arm did what it wanted... Jason will attest.

So, after the doctor decided that oral meds were not gonna cut it, we moved on to injectables. But... not before putting Jason through the ultimate test (you get what I mean right?) They just had to rule him out as a source of our problem. Gladly, we later found out that Jason is great and I am the only source of our conception issues so on we went to the injections! A few cycles on these injections, a uterine dye test, and a surgery later we found out that PCOS was not our only hurdle. After no luck on the injections the doctor recommended this dye test which revealed a blockage in my fallopian tube and then suggested surgery. The surgery ultimately showed that I have deformed fallopian tubes as well as stage 2 endometriosis.

We were heartbroken when the doctor explained that this combination of problems made our chances of conceiving "the old fashioned way" about none. (I guess I couldn't help hanging on to the thought of the "miracle baby"...) So, he went on to say that by trying an IUI (intrauterine insemination) we would have about a 15% chance of conceiving and that IVF (InVitro Fertilization) could give us as much as a 40% chance. Feeling optimistic we opted to try the IUI first. Well, the IUI didnt work... And here we are... Feeling optimistic again and quickly headed towards IVF. Right now we are taking it day by day. In about two weeks we will be going through the initial testing and will sign the papers to make our decision to do this official! After that there will be several weeks of multiple doctors appointments, lab work, and lots and lots of injections. Some where around November 9th we will be having our egg retrieval surgery and embryo transfer!! So thats our year in a nut shell... I will keep you posted as we know more!