All Things Happen for a Reason

I wanted a second opinion and needed to find a more local place to complete what we need to have a child. In October 2007, I found another doctor in my city and called to see if he was accepting any new patients. They informed me that they were not accepting new patients, but when I told them I had all of this testing completed and was mainly interested in IUI or IVF, they accepted me and set an appointment for January 2008. I immediately called the doctors office in the other city and asked for my file to be transferred to this local office. 

My first appointment with the new specialist went smoothly, the office reported they had not yet received my records, but the cost of treatment here compared to at the office in the other city was a third of the cost. They completed a pap and scheduled an internal ultrasound on cycle day thirteen to check my ovaries and egg production. At the ultrasound the doctor informed me that my eggs were too small to be considered ovulatory. The doctor’s office had still not received my records, I was afraid that I would have to go though all of those test again. The doctor ordered blood work to check my progesterone levels on cycle day twenty-one. The blood work came back too low to be considered ovulatory. The doctor called me to let me know that we were going to move forward without my records and that he was going to be writing me a script for Clomid. 

I am going to be starting our first cycle on Clomid, and know that it could take time. I figure that everything happens for a reason. This includes infertility. I would not wish infertility on anyone, but could not say that I wish it had never happened to me. It has changed the way I look at life. So many times in the last two years I have cried myself to sleep. I didn’t understand how God would allow my fourteen year old cousin to get pregnant, when she wasn’t even old enough to have a job, or how he could allow my friend to find out she was pregnant when she went for a pre-op to get her tubes tied. I did not understand how he could allow abortions to continue to happen when there were several people like myself wanting a child.