In Vitro is a GO!

I was very nervous going into my ultrasound yesterday. I have never had an ultrasound with no cysts on my ovaries and if one was there we would not have started the IVF. Thank goodness it all looked good, my surgery a couple months ago removed all the endometriosis and I finally get to start!! I made a calendar of all my medicines, ultrasounds/labs, etc and posted it in the links section to the left. As I move on from one stage to the next I will of course be updating the blog. Hopefully its smooth sailing from now on.

Since I hope this is a somewhat informative blog I will also talk about the costs for IVF so far.
Lab Fees: $2785 (includes Embryo culture, Ooocyte ID from follicular fliud, preparation of embryo for transfer, sperm isolation & complex preparation, Intracytoplasmic sperm injection)
Facility Fee: $2,830 (use of facility, staff, coordination of services, equipment and supplies)
Anesthesia Fee: $558 (for egg retrieval)
Sperm Storage: $360 (1 year of storage)

Lucky for me I am saving several thousand dollars because I was able to get all my medicines filled by the Air Force Pharmacy. I will also be doing 3 of my ultrasounds/lab work at the base which will also save me a couple hundred dollars each time.


In other news, as I mentioned the other day Dan's 3 month CT was good - no change from previous scans. For those who want to read the actual report here you go. Page 1 & Page 2

Finally, I made a photo slideshow for Cole's 1st birthday. It ended up being a huge project that had to be broken into 2 parts in order to upload onto youtube (even split into 2 I couldn't get it on yahoo which limits size even further) I hope you enjoy them. You can watch it directly from this site (but I would keep it small) or you can use the link to youtube and right under the video it says "view in higher quality". If you click that you can make it full screen and enjoy! It is pretty long, but Cole is just so darn cute I couldn't cut anything. Make sure you have sound on also.

Part 1 - link to youtube for higher quality
or watch it in compressed quality below



Part 2 - link to youtube for higher quality
or watch it in compressed quality below