
Greetings from Panama City,
I had to come back and check on all you ladies during my little break and glad I did, the board is moving along just fine without little me on here yacking away.
It's therapy to get away from the journey for a little while, and we all need breaks but yesterday was my big reminder that our IVF cycle is right around the corner and I need you ladies now more then ever! Yesterday, dh and I got to meet the entire IVF crew at the clinic in Mobile. Someone mentioned needles? They gave me a whole bag of needles and syringes and this is even BEFORE we ordered meds, lol from our MDA pharmacy based in California. But I wanted to tell LaureN I haven't even thought to price check around, we know customer service is a big plus but these meds are so expensive so I appreciate everyone's feedback on what they think about their pharmacy in their own personal experience with dealing with them. Very helpful!
Kynlee-
Only two more days, until beta day and I've got everything crossed for you.

More then ever praying, this is your cycle!
Ninde-
Thank you for not giving completely up, you never have and that means alot! With your upcoming ER, I've been counting down the days, only 11 days away! I know you are getting excited and getting ready for acupuncture. How is the WL training going?
Gina-
Those Paris pictures are breathtaking! I hope you are able to go back and get to stay a little while longer before you all move back to GA. I need to go back and read more about the military papers, but hope Washington,DC gets them and you have no more delays. How is your little one doing after the last dentist experience, imagining you couldn't pay him to go back there anytime soon.
Leora-
Margi is something else isn't she? What a fabulous surprise to get a stuffed penguin in the mail, we know how much you adore penguins!!!

So any ladies here have pulled us through so much and will continue to be here if we ever need anything.
AFM: So our IVF class was yesterday, was hoping we would meet other couples but told us it was just us scheduled this week. Spring break is also going on, so maybe everyone else traveled home? We got so much one-on-one time with the lab. First they drew 5 vials of blood and I didn't know they were going to do a urine sample, so I had just peed before I walked in. lol so that was sheer surprise, sorry tmi!

Then we meet with our coordinator who went over the contract for dh and gave us alot to think about who gets what with the surviving embryos. She went over sceneros on couples divorcing and then the battle with the man taking the embryos to make babies with the new wife, I thought what kind of sicko would do that? Or scenero 2 with the wife and husband die in a tragic car accident and the MIL taking the embryos to a surrogant and a baby brought into the world to replace her daughter. I was like seriously who would do that? Or my least favorite scenero 3 where the wife calls the clinic back later on for paperwork to get the husband to release the embryos to her and then she divorcing him and takes off with the embryos to make a baby without him, and then the rest of the embryos sit there and nobody pays the storage fee. I'm thinking what and they managed to pass the drug test?
Okay so after that fun discussion, we head into the next room to meet the spermologist, learned soooo much on how they grade the embryos and repair fragentation, very cool to watch the video on it. What blew me away overall was when dh gave a sample, we saw much improvement not only in the count but the mobility was 76 percent (previously only in the 20s) so they froze this sample. On our drive home, he asked if I had any opk test left, I said I had already given up on trying naturally but he wants to give this our last horrah. I'm just exhausted but thought what do we have to loose?