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New Doctor ...New Plan

July 14, 2007

I saw a differant doctor yesterday concerning my options with having blocked tubes. I now have a woman doctor and she is great. She spent about an hour with me asking questions and explaining everything I needed to know in great detail. She didn't make me feel like there was a question that I couldn't ask and she made me feel like there was hope. She explained to me about how the infertility clinic at Kaiser works. If it is determined that the woman's tubes are blocked or the male's sperm are uneffective than they can't continue with treatment. I was ok with that requirement. I explained to her that my issue was I wanted to know if there was a procedure that could be done to look at my tubes to see why they were blocked and if they could be unblocked. She said yes that was possible. I'm blessed to have been matched up with one of the most wanted gyn's in this office and she is the one that performs most of the surgeries. She's booked for the month of Aug and she goes on vacation in September so I will be having surgery to check my tubes the 3rd week in October. She even did an ultrasound to look at my uterus and ovories. My uterus looks fine and is the correct shape, my right ovary looked good but she was concerned about my left side. She said that my ovary looked fine but there was something next to it. She thinks it's fluid in my tube. She says if it is than she needs to remove that tube because of two reasons... If they are able to clear my right tube than not removing the left one will still prevent me from being able to get pregnant because the fluid is known to leak into the uterus and it causes a change in the lining that makes it impossible for implantation to take place or if it does most pregnancies end in miscarriages. If they are unable to clear the right tube and we decide to do IVF then removing the tube will increase of chances of a successful IVF. So our prayer is that my tubes aren't blocked at all, that due to the pain of the HSG I was having spasms that caused the dye to not go through, or if my tubes are blocked they can be repaired. God knows I really don't want to do IVF. If money wasn't such an issue maybe I would be more open to it but it is. It's also such an emotional ordeal that since I'm still recovering from the Thyroid ordeal I just don't have it in me to battle something like that. But of course if that is what God wants for us He will give me the strength that I will need. For the first time in my life I will be taking BCP in September so that the timing for my surgery will be correct. This is the furthest we have ever gotten and we are both excited about it. Raymond has to take vitimans and get more SA done in September to see if his numbers are better. He's quitting caffine all together and we are both eating better. I'm drinking more water like I should and a coke every couple of days.

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