July 7, 2008………The day we found out our normal lives as we know it would have to be turned upside down to have children. I had always thought we would move slowly, gradually to IVF if needed but nope we hit it at 100 mph. There is nothing like taking the fast lane to an emotionally, financially, physically stressful situation. I think what I will always remember from that day is how the doctor spilled out around 346,863 medical terms and I think but I am not completely sure that he might have been speaking in tongues for some of the conversation. I also found it completely fascinating in that telling us that we both had problems that were preventing us from having children naturally; he never wanted to talk about my husband’s issues more than 8.6 seconds at a time. But what he seemed to love to talk about was my off-wack hormones and slow, pitiful, reproduction system. I got to hear over and over about all of MY problems while my husband got to sit there and stare into space. I assume he didn’t want to invade my husband’s male ego thing so I feel this just further proves how much tougher women are. This is good since I feel IVF will be about finding an amount of toughness that I didn’t know I had.
I have started this as a journal so that I have a record of everything that happened throughout all of this. If we are lucky enough to have children this first time they will see how hard we worked to get them. If not, then we have a journal of what to expect the second go around. Hope you enjoy!
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