Muddling Through

It's been a few weeks since my last post....end of June/beginning of July is pretty busy in our family! We went out of town for the holiday and had some birthday celebrations in between.

Just a small update. We've figured out some of the financial problems from the previous post, and have a plan of action...now we're just trying to implement it. Having to wait on some documents from the bank to send to our builder so we can get reimbursed for half of the taxes that they were supposed to pay for last year, and once we get that (it's been said they have a quick turnaround....let's hope it's true), then we can work on the rest.

That said...we've taken this month off in regards to the scientifically-enhanced baby-making processes. Don't get me wrong...we're still trying! :) Just took a pass on going through the specialist and all the appointments and sonograms and meds for this month, until we can get the finances worked out. We might skip next month too, depending on if we get the budget worked out.

But, we're trying to make it a priority to keep on track. We don't want to put it off until later, because of my age. I'm 36 1/2 already, so the more time we let go by, the more risk factors we encounter. I can see where he's coming from, but I guess I'm also a little bit in denial about it. It's a little hard to explain. I'll get into all of that more in a later post. So, anyway...point being....we don't want to put things off for a year. So, we're going to do what we can to make it happen.

So, I've tried to temp and check my body stats more thoroughly this month, but so far the charting still says I'm not fertile yet, but I also skipped while we were out of town, and last weekend...so hopefully I didn't miss it! ;) I don't think I did....things are looking pretty good as I interpret them right now, so I'm going to keep charting, and keep seducing, and we'll see what happens!

The Other Shoe Is Dropping

The first shoe is obviously the fact that we are having to go through this whole process to get another baby in the first place. Kind of like our adoption plans falling through, I think we were both kind of wondering when something would go wrong with this process.

In the course of about 18 hours, from last night to this afternoon, 3 separate and completely unrelated financial whammies have occurred, which will at the very least, postpone our plans a few months, and maybe permenantly...unless we win the lottery (which I must keep reminding myself that I have to actually buy a ticket for that to happen!) or have a rich unknown relative pass on and leave us a fortune (not likely).

We're still reviewing things to see what we can do. We do believe there are some errors in some cases that will be in our favor when corrected, but it's not enough. We were going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for the extra $1000-$1500 we'd need each month for the treatments/appointments/drugs, and I'm 99% sure that's not going to be possible in the next few months.

I'm going to wait another week before calling Dr Pinto to let him know things are on hold.

Finally!

Chandra finally called me this morning to go over when we were available to do the surgery. I had mentioned on the voicemail that it was either this Friday or June, because that is what she had told us the day of the sono-hystogram. But when she called, she made it sound like it we needed it that way! Ugh! I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

So, she still has to call the surgery center to see what they have available. Who knows how long it will be to get another call back!

Okay, Seriously....

Schedule the darn appointment!!!!!

No call from Chandra today either, and again, I forgot until late, so I left her a voicemail just before closing. So, hopefully, I'll remember to call her tomorrow early enough to get something done!