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A new year and a new journey
April 26, 2007
I am so excited to be here!
This is something that I wanted to be a part of for years. I look forward to
sharing my experiences with everyone here and I hope to make a lot of new friends
also. I will start off by telling a little bit about my family and our TTC journey.
My husband and I have been married for 9 years.(It will be 9 years in June.) I
always wanted to get married but I didn't think that it would ever happen to me.
Then I met Raymond and then the idea didn't seem so unreal. We met September of
1997 and got engaged March of 1998 and we got married June of 1998. I can't say
that the past nine years have been the best and up until a couple of months ago
I wanted to end our marriage but God has a way of turning things around when you
allow Him to guide your life. My husband has a daughter from a previous marriage,
she is now 19 years old and she is currently living with us. We get a long pretty
well and I'm thankful for that. I work with children and my husband is a security
guard and he was ordained a Minister October of 2002. We are Christians and we
strongly believe that we would not be able to make it without God in our lives.
My husband and I have always wanted children and we never used any kind of birth
control. The years began to go by and nothing was happening. In 2001 I expressed
my concern to my primary doctor and she refered me to a ob-gyn and did some blood
work and told me to chart my cycle and that he wouldn't go any further with me
until my husband had a SA. Well my husband wasn't ready to take that test so the
testing came to a halt. 2004 Raymond had the SA done and it came back normal and
I once again saw a doctor who ran a bunch of test that all came back normal so
the next step was to get a HSG done. My insurance would only cover 50% of all
infertility procedures and tests so I was expected to pay $370 dollars out of
my pocket. I made the appointment but the week of the procedure I cancelled due
to some problems that Raymond and I were having. It wouldn't have been wise to
spend that much money on a procedure when I didn't know if we were going to stay
together or not. This was November of 2005. The April of 2006 we decided to have
the test done, I called to make the appointment and I was told that I would have
to cover the whole amount, I called to check my coverage and they said I was still
covered for 50% but no matter what I told the clinic they said the computer said
I had to pay the full amount. I was stressed out and very upset so Raymond told
me to let it go for a while. He got a better job with wonderful medical insurance
so now we are fully covered for infertility. We finally got accepted into the
infertility clinic that we just saw our RE last week. He's not happy with Raymond's
SA (Raymond had a SA done in the beginning of March and it came back abnormal
so he had to do 2 more. The second one came back ok and the third one was the
best)so he wants Raymond to see a uralogst and once he's given the ok then we
can procede. I will be getting a hsg done next Friday. I found out last month
that I have hyperthyroidism and I am being treated for that right now. My RE doens't
seem very concerned about it as long as I'm getting treated for it. There is so
much more I would like to say but I don't want to chase you off. I'll tell more
in another entry.
Baby wishes for all!!! Melinda |  |
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