It's a good day

We got great news today about our lab work bill/insurance situation. My Dr here that did all the lab work ended up writing it all off because they didn't have me sign a waver saying that these tests are normally not covered and we would be responsible. We only have to pay $226 for Jason's chromosome analysis, too bad they didn't mess up on that one too!! Maybe I should bake the front office some cookies and thank them for the goof. :)

Normal

Just got a call that Jason's chromosome analysis came back completely normal....YAY!!! So now we know it's all my fault, (not anybodys fault, we are in this together...from Jason) but that's ok now that we know what it is. We are still waiting on insurance to process the claim for all these tests. We got a frightening phone call last week saying the claim was denied....what?? Are you kidding? I guess they needed more information on why we were needing all these tests ran so the Dallas office resubmitted info and we have to wait 7-14 more days to see how much we have to shell out. It would be thousands of dollars if insurance doesn't pay so fingers crossed they will pay part of it.

more blood work for DH

Ugggggh...I got a call from our Dallas office this week saying they never got Jason's Chromosome analysis results in. The nurse then said it looked like they ran all the same tests on Jason as they did on me. What?? First thing that came to mind was I am not paying for all of those. So I called my Dr office here to see whathappened and told her all Jason's tests that were ran were all unnecessary and the one we needed never got done. So Jason ran in on Thursday during his lunch and had blood drawn. We should have results back in 10 days. Nothing can ever go smooth with us.

hope on the horizon

I forgot to mention in the previous post that they are going to start me on a blood thinner, Lovenox. The nurse called the medication in today and it will be here on Monday. I'm not sure exactly when I start it. I will be talking with the nurse more about it next week.

Blood clotting disorder

We finally got our test results back and they found that I have a very rare blood clotting disorder that affects just a few thousand people worldwide. They found my Protein S level to be low from the normal range. This could be our problem with implantation and our reoccurring miscarriages. The nurse told me that the Dr also said it's important to have mom, dad and sister checked for this because Protein S deficiency may be hereditary. Protein S deficiency usually manifests clinically as venous thromboembolism (VTE)which means a blood clot forms in the veins. It can be damaging as it might block the flow of blood. Also, part of the clot might break away and block a blood vessel further along, cutting off the blood supply to important organs.

Had a great time up in Chicago with mom and Katie. We shopped and shopped and shopped a little more. Friday was a week since we had blood drawn for our testing so I decided to call and check on the results today....nothing yet. The nurse said sometimes it can take a couple weeks. Will post when I know something.

Not a whole lot going on here just trying to get everything in order for our next IVF in May. Our Dallas Dr. has a list of things he wants done asap so we have been trying to get some of those checked off. Jason went in for a semen anaylisis last week and the results were faxed down to Dallas. I got the call today that it all looked good. So no ICSI this time...yay!! Saves us 2-3k (ICSI: Stands for intracytoplasmic sperm injection, a test-tube fertilization procedure in which a sperm is injected directly into an egg to achieve fertilization.) On the same phone call the nurse told me he was ordering 7 more blood test for me and 1 chromosome test for Jason. It worked out perfect because Jason took the afternoon off and our family physician was able to squeeze us in at the end of the day. This was the nurse and Dr that took such good care of me with my kidney stone. They are such kind people so I feel they deserve some homemade cookies delivered to them Monday. They will fax the results down to Dallas so we should know something in about a 7-10 days. School is going good we are in our 3rd week of clinicals. I'm at the nursing home in Andover and it's sooo depressing. There are a few people there I wish I could take home with me. They are so independent and if they had some family support they could live at home.