Once we were in our room, which is designed almost identical to the clinic we were at prior, we both felt much better. We went over our infertility journey with the medical assistant first. After she had finished asking me questions she had a few for Clint too. The last question she asked him was, "Have you ever fathered any children?" I felt a small lump in my throat. Poor Hubby though, his eyes immediately turned red and welled up. I waited a second for him to answer, and he couldn't. I quickly told the assistant that our first son was stillborn this past August. Usually if Clint even comes close to crying, I loose it. I was sooo proud of myself that I was able to answer for him and take the pressure off of him in that moment.
As soon as we met, lets call him Dr. S, we like him. Easy going, sincere, made jokes, listened to us. One of the things I was most nervous about is that he would want to do his own work up and testing. We did not want to waste our time with going through that and we did not want to have to pay for all of that again. We know what the issue is, we have been pregnant before, and we just want to be pregnant again. ASAP, we don't want to waste anytime. To our surprise, Dr. S had reviewed all of my records at length, and we will not need to to ANY testing. We will do a cycle almost identical to the cycle that I got pregnant with Nolan on. He did a baseline ultrasound and we left with 3 prescriptions, all but one are the same that Dr. T has used. The only one that is different is a little bit smaller of a dose that we take for a few days longer. We both feel confident this Dr. will help us get what we want. We are so relieved that our first appointment is over and that we are on this road again. It is an emotional, bumpy, curvy road, but not doing any cycles was even harder!
We had planned on going out for lunch and to the mall after our appointment. Well remember in my last post how cold I said it was? The thought of going in and out of the car was not appealing to either of us that day. So we got sandwiches at a drive through, ate in the car, and headed home. We got home about 2:30, we put on our sweats and cuddled on the couch the rest of the afternoon and evening. Even better way to spend our time that eating out and shopping ;)
We had a lazy Saturday morning at home too. Hubby went to his shop to work a little bit and I went to town. I ran some errands and had pizza with my Mom and Dad for lunch. Before I headed home I stopped at my parents house. I still had a few boxes of things that I had moved their after college and had never gotten them yet. What I found in one of the boxes made me laugh harder than I had in a very long time.
In high school my best friend, still to this day, Ashley and I had a "notebook". We put everything in this notebook. We would write each other notes and pass it back and forth. Well I found that notebook. I called Ash right away and I was laughing so hard I couldn't even talk. I read the first few pages but we agreed not to read anymore. We are meeting for sushi on Wednesday night and we are going to read through the rest of it together!
Saturday night we went to supper with some of our very good friends. After dinner we had a few drinks at their house before we headed home. We were lazy again this morning. Hubby is at his Mom's today helping her with some things and I have cleaned our house from top to bottom. A pot of homemade vegetable beef soup is on the stove... perfect weekend.
Hope you all had a great weekend to!
Oh, and just because she is sooo sweet, here is a picture of our niece, and god daughter, Madyson. We call her Maddy. She was at my MIL's today and I stopped by to see them...
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| Cute, right? |
Kari
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