Happy Valentine's Day!

We don't actually celebrate, but we did treat ourselves to Chinese carry-out. Then, it made me sick. Fun times.

But, on an IVF note, we got our bill in the mail today. Holy.Shit. ICSI is almost $2k. So, our bill almost made me crap my pants. Oh, no. That was the Chinese. Maybe it was actually from the shock of seeing our bill. It's a good thing we are already excited and have the money saved up. Otherwise, I'm not sure we'd go through with it.

So, now were at $10k plus meds. Wow. This shit better work. The hubs also got the actual report from his DNA frag test from our RE's office, too. It was very interesting. He has a high number of free radicals and a high frag rate. The report said that natural conception and iui has almost a 0% chance of working. Regular IVF (without ICSI) has a lower success rate. However, with ICSI, we're back up to where everyone else is.

For anyone getting ready to do IVF (or iui for that matter) I so strongly urge you to do this "cheap" test. It was $200. We're now on our 2nd fresh IVF, but 3rd transfer. So, $200 is cheap as far as this is all concerned.

Of course, in the grand scheme, let's imagine that last year's IVF would have worked. Or the FET. We'd be due to deliver any day now. Yeah. Remember that whole issue with the hub's job loss? Yeah. Tell me that things don't happen for a reason. I can't even imagine getting ready to bring a baby home right now. I mean, if we were, we'd certainly deal with it and be so happy. But, with only one salary coming in? Yeah. That would be hard.

On the job front, the hubs has applied for a few and has some really good leads. I'm very excited for him! Please say a few extra prayers that he can get this all squared away by the time we start IVF again. The less stress, the better for all of us. Especially for his swimmers, apparently. Who knew?