E brought this article, Crowdfunding for Adoptions, Fertility Treatments, to my attention and I thought it was very interesting:
Hopeful parents to be are turning to crowdfunding sites to raise
thousands of dollars from friends, family and even complete strangers.
This just brings to the forefront that insurance companies need to get their act together. ART techniques including IUI and IVF, should be covered by ALL insurance plans. People should not have to use up their entire life savings to have a child. Not everyone can naturally have a child and it is not fair that they should be punished for this. I understand that there would most likely need to be a monetary limit put on these techniques, but to not even cover one cycle is absolutely absurd!
Vent Over!
T-3 weeks until the start of our next cycle!
E has been Clomid since the beginning of April. Last week, he provided a sperm sample and then we patiently awaited the results.
I tried not to get my hopes up as the last SA was unsuccessful, but I had heard of many men having success with Clomid so I was optimistic. Unfortunately, this was not the case for us. E's SA still showed azoospermia - no sperm. The urologist said that E should remain on the Clomid until we are done TTC.
So as of now, we will be using E's frozen sperm that he banked before chemotherapy. Not the best case scenario, but at least we have something to work with.
The urologist described the journey as a roller coaster. He said with each infertility treatment there is hope, but then there are downs that (may) come with it. So true.... The question becomes when do you get off?
The doctor called me within a week to inform me of the results - CIN1 cells.
Okay - so what does CIN1 mean?
A CIN1 diagnosis represents the least risky type of abnormal cell growth commonly referred to as mild dysplasia. This means that the abnormal cells are confined to the basal 1/3 of the epithelium. Typically, it will be cleared by the immune response in a
year or so, though can take several years to clear.
Where does this leave us in our IVF journey?
After contacting our IVF coordinator, she said that since the abnormal cells were only CIN1 that we would be able to move forward with the IVF cycle at the end of July!!
I am the worst blogger! No updates in 6 weeks - are you kidding me?
Well, here you go.
At the end of May, I had a colposcopy. I was SO nervous about the outcome of the procedure. If the biopsy came back with CN2 or CN3 abnormal cells, then there would be no IVF...
So the Friday before Memorial Day, I went to my regular ObGyn office. Two weeks earlier, I made an appointment with the first available doctor - a man I had never met before - oh well - I wanted to get this procedure done ASAP.
So the procedure....
First, you lay down on a table and they invert it. They place acetic acid (more or less vinegar) into your vagina so it can reach your cervix and then you wait for 5 minutes. I will not lie - it burned! The doctor then shared the good news - no cervical cancer! Yay! The bad news is that he needed to do a biopsy since he could not tell how bad the abnormal cells were. When he took the cervical tissue for the biopsy, I literally felt nothing. Once he finished up, I was able to go to work - lucky me!
He said he would contact me in a week with results. Let the waiting begin!!!!
