Pre-requisites.....

     So, before you can even start the process of fertility treatments you have a load of plentiful pre-requisites. It feels like a never ending list and I just see $$ and wonder why some of them are even necessary. I guess that is the bad part of me knowing too much in the medical field.
     So, this past week, we had a meeting with the urologist for Alan's consultation. I think we are a go, though he probably is the most confusing doctor I have ever met....football and fraternity analogies aren't for me! The other fun appointment we had last week was for a hystersalpingogram. What a fun word is that??? I like saying the word better than the test itself. This is the one test that I think is senseless but hey, gotta do what I gotta do. So, I was told to come with someone and be expected to be sedentary for 2 hours after and have someone drive me home. My doctor even told me I could have the day off....so, onto the procedure. Alan went with me, though I told him I would be okay. It was actually not that bad of a procedure, though people had forwarned me otherwise. Alan went back with me and I think he was in more pain watching it than I was having it done. So, I felt fine afterward and decided I am wonderwoman, hahaha, and could go to work. Let's just say the afterward symptoms were worse than the whole procedure and seeing patients in clinic then going to a 4 hour brain surgery isn't really what I should've been doing! But, overall it wasn't that bad. So, it came back normal and we are onto the next steps.
        After these two appointments, I'm not going to lie, I have gotten nervous. The reality of this process is here. It isn't an idea of "what we are going to have to do" it is what we are doing. Thankfully in being vocal about this I have seen several people who have gone through this too with great stories, I just am praying our's ends up the same. Heck, I am still praying for a miracle in the next 2 weeks so we don't have to do it! But, in all this, I still have a peace from God we are doing the right thing. I have to remember that Satan wants me to worry and wants me to doubt. Plenty of prayer and family/friend support has helped for sure.
    So in the next few weeks we get to perform more pre-requisites, plenty of blood work, and we take the IVF class. Looking forward to that part because then the actual process can begin! No more pre-reqs! Anyway, that is the latest.......let the ride continue.