February 18th, 2010

Howdy!
Today is one amazing day! Our dossier is in Ethiopia and literally the next thing we hear from Dove will be our referral for our son or sons!!! Woo-hoo!!!! Exciting!

On the bio front the story is a little longer....We went to the doc on Wed. and as we already knew had another upset knowing the last IUI was a failure. We had talked an prayed about what our next step was going to be so felt prepared for what we would tell the doc we wanted to do next. After the US he came back in and sat in the room with us to casually chat for a good amount of time. We felt much more comfortable, than the typical test and run approach. He told us we have several options. We have tried everything to get pg that exist as of 2010, so now repeats might have to begin. He says is was last May since we did all of the serious surgeries, so he thinks come this May we would do them all over again, to remove cysts and the endometriosis and all. In the meantime he suggested going to the hospital and having the HSG dye test run again, to check for tubal blockage, cysts, etc. Then once we know the tubes are clear we could decide to try naturally, do future IUI rounds, or go for the "big guns" and try IVF again. Each has pros and cons...we would love to take meds and try naturally but the chances given our situation are extremely low, IUIs have a better success rate but still slim, knowing the past failed one was already #14 we think, IVF has the higest rate of success but the cost factor is astronomical to try 3 plus times in one year. So......for this month we have scheduled the HSG at Tucson Medical Hospital for next Thursday at 1:15, picked up a prescription of Clomid and are going totally on faith. We have a ski trip with a group planned for weekend after next and knew the IUI would fall when we were out of town, so we already figured this month would be our first break from the doc and shots in the past 18 months. We have hope God will bless our family, and pray for our future decision and steps toward children. IUI, IVF, natural next month???
We are thrilled with the progress our adoption has made and literally look back thinking if we could get a referral next month or get pg next month we would take the referral 10 times over knowing it is blessed and our path! Come hoem to us Ma-mush!