January 28, 2013 IUI #1

This morning we had our first IUI, and I was sooooo nervous! We left our house at 5 to make Trace's 7:30 appointment. When we got to the appointment they gave Trace a paper to fill out while I paid $616 for the procedure. No infertility coverage, but we had been lucky so far with insurance covering all our testing. As Trace is filling out the paperwork he asks me what our doctors name is, and the receptionist answers him with a different name. I think she's mistaken so I go to correct her and she tells me that our doctor had her baby. WHAT?!? Our doctor was pregnant???? How could I have missed that?? Then I replayed the three times I had seen her, and every time she had a giant lab coat on. Ah Ha! She was hiding it out of respect for her patients desperately trying to get pregnant! Wow.... How hard that must have been! I was told that I would be seen by another RE and she was the one listed on the top 100 bet in the country so that softened the blow.

Any-who, Trace went back to give his sample and I waited in the waiting room, and waited, and waited.... Then I started worrying. I mean there is no way in hell I could do what I expected him to do by myself. Then the guy that went back before him came out so now I'm really freaking out. So I send him a text. No response. Then I hear his voice and I hear a lady say "oh no you leave that in the room". I'm like holy hell he's carrying his sample around the office. :) Finally he comes out and I've never been so relieved when he said "I did it but it was fucking hard! Did you know you gotta do it dry?!" Then he tells me that he had been done but he had to check out at least one of the dirty DVDs they had. He said it would have never helped! I asked him what he was carrying around that he was supposed to leave in the room and he said his paperwork and I sighed a big sigh of relief.

I was supposed to take him and drop him off at work, but his boss had called him while he was giving his sample and told him just to take the day with pay! I love his boss. So we walked to a nearby diner and ate breakfast and killed some time till 10 o'clock when I was due for the insemination. The closer it got to 10 the more nervous I got. Finally we got called back to an exam room and I was told to strip from the waist down. As I'm stripping Trace told me to look up at the ceiling and I see a picture of flowers in a field duct taped right above the exam table. Really? That sure as hell wasn't going to help me relax. In walks my favorite fellow and instant I start to calm down. I ask her a ton of probably insane questions, and she never let's on how crazy she might think I am. I verified Trace's specimen, laid back, and started trying to do relaxing breathing. She inserted the speculum, cleaned me off with what Trace called a "Giant Ass Q tip", placed the catheter which cause a little bit of cramping, and bam all done. I can't believe I was so worried and nervous and it was way less painful then the HSG. The whole procedure might have been 2 minutes.

Now on to the dreaded two week wait. I am so very thankful for my husband. I could never had made it this far without him. He is my rock. He's strong when I need him to be and funny when I need to loosen up. I'm so lucky to have found him