August

On August 12th, we met with a new doctor. The reason we went to see this doctor was because the friend of mine who is also going through this was telling me that her doctor was almost $4000 cheaper than Kaufmann. So on the 12th Mario and I met Dr. Le. We went back to his office to wait. I walked around and looked at all the precious babies that he had hanging on his walls. It must of been close to 500 pictures of babies conceived with Le. Le came in and gave us a very in-dept lesson of how everything would work with him if we decided to use him. He pretty much told us the same thing as Kaufmann. He knows Kaufmann and Pinto (doctor who we saw last year) pretty well. From the sounds of things, they all refer patients to one another depending on the situations. We left feeling good about him. Mario liked him more than K and I personally like K more than Le. After thinking about it though, the reason I liked K so much was bc of his personality. Le is not from the US and so you could not throw small jokes out there bc he didn't understand them:) But from a knowledge standpoint and success rate, they are pretty equal! Le charges $6000 and Kaufmann 10k. So pretty easy decision. Now none of that is including the medicine but thankfully my school started a flex plan. So the medicine will be paid from that which is pre-taxed from my paycheck every month! Decision Made...Le!

This last weekend I had my first "real" appointment with Le. I had to go in for a base line sono to start this whole process. Once again they got great results from me. My uterus lining was very thin, which is what it should have looked like on that day, my left ovary had 7 eggs and my right ovary had 5 eggs. So just like K had said, Le thinks he will take anywhere from 10-15 from me the day of the egg retrieval. As I was leaving he gave me a box of birthcontrol and asked me to start on them Sunday. We also have to get in to a LabCorp this week for more blood work. They have to do an STD/HIV screening on all patients. Fun Fun. I also scheduled my next appointment for September 6th. I will go in on this day to sit down with a nurse to order all the meds and plan out my calendar of when everything will take place from here on out. I will also learn how to give myself injections at this time..ugh! I got home from the doctor and a couple of hours later Dr. Le called me. He told me that we was putting together my protocol and he changed his mind...he asked me to start on the pill that day. So last night I took the first pill. If you know me, then you know that today I'm in bed feeling like I need to throw up. I don't know what it is with my body but for some reason I do not handle pills well! Hopefully by tomorrow I'm feeling a little better. Usually the first two days are a little rough. So there we have it. The process has begun and both of us are very excited. I promise to do better keeping this updated. I can honestly blame being so busy on school! This year has been great but for some strange reason I feel as though I'm drowning at school...I can not get caught up for any reason! Hopefully this will be the week!

Sorry for the delay!

Well it's time for the man of the house to get involved with this blog, haha.  Like the title says, sorry about the lack of posts recently.  There just really hasn't been much going on in the Arroyave household.  Let's see if I can come up with an accurate template of what our days have been like.  I wake up early and am on the road riding by about 645 or so.  Unfortunately my alarm wakes the pups up, so by default Christen is now up as well.  That means it's time to get the pets some exercise.  After a run the pets come back home and go to sleep, as does Christen occasionally.  I'll usually arrive back home around 10 or so.  After a shower and eating my first lunch, I usually take a nap.  I awake from my slumber about 1. Lately I've been hitting the blue-ray player pretty hard.  Recent movies have been:  Tron, True Grit, Machete and Just go with It (chick flick that was really good!).  Christen has been having to go back to work the last few days so it hasn't been all sunshine for her.  As you can see not much of anything happening...which includes no stinkin' rain for what seems like an eternity now. 
OK so now to the reason why you peeps tune into this thing, the IVF process.  It's looking like the Arroyave's are going to be saving some coin!  Christen has a friend that is also going through IVF at the same time and it turns out the doctor she is using is lots cheaper than Dr. Kaufmann.  I know cheaper is not always better, so I called Kaufmann's office to get the skinny on why they charge so much more than other clinics.  The answer I got was that I didn't get one.  The way I explained it to Christen is this, a not-so-good doctor at this stuff will quickly show.  I mean let's face it, you either have some folks walking out of the clinic with kiddos or you don't (I know that IVF is not always successful BTW).  With that being said, we have a consult with this new guy, Dr. Le, next week on Wednesday.  We'll see how it goes but I'm thinking this might be a smart move for us. 
The days keep ticking away and we are getting closer and closer to kicking this process off.  I think about it several times daily and the excitement continues to build!  Please continue to be in prayer for us and keep tuning in.  I've gotta run and get ready for a wedding we're attending tonight.  Time to get my dancing shoes polished up, haha.