Surgery?

Well on Thursday we had a meeting at the urologist to go over our options now that we know that its not his hormone levels, nor is sperm in his urine, and everything else is good.

There could be one of two problems that are going on.
First, Timmy's tubes could be blocked and that's why their not getting through. There are two different things that can be done.
Option 1: Cost= $1,400. Pretty sure insurance doesn't cover this. To go directly into the sac get 12 vials of semen out and have enough sperm for IVF. This will require 4-5 days of him being off work.
Option 2: Cost=$15,000-$20,000. Insurance might cover it. They would go in and fix the problem completely. They would clear the blockage and then we *might* be able to concieve through IUI or naturally, since I have problems not sure it would work, but atleast we'd know that he'd be fixed. This would require 6-8 weeks of no working.

Or the second thing it could be is that he might not make sperm at all. He said he doesn't think its this problem, but it potentially could be.

Now I have my own take on it. I'm not a doctor nor do I know anything, but what I do know is that we started out at the very beginning when Timmy had his first SA, he had 1million or more sperm. (its a very low number, but doable with IVF) When we had our first IUI he had 4-5 sperm. Then third SA, resulted in no sperm at all. Now if his tubes are blocked like that doctor thinks, don't you think that Timmy woulda had no sperm from the beginning? They are saying the blockage is from when he had an infection back in 2007. I highly doubt that it could go from that many sperm to none. Again I'm not a doctor nor do I study that stuff, but I think its very weird how it could go from so much to none over a span over 4 months. In my all heart honesty I don't think he makes any. Maybe I'm wrong, and just trying to settle it in my brain so I'm not crushed if it does turn out that way when he has one of the procedures done, but I have to be realistic.

We have decided to go with Option 1. We are praying whole heartedly that there is sperm in there and we are going at it a shot in the dark. We are going to have to get a loan from the bank because we don't have enough to cover IVF ourselves, but we are hoping to get the full amount for IVF that way we will have enough money ourselves to cover this surgery plus the meds and ICSI.

If we can't get a loan for the full amount of IVF we are going to have to put it off until we can save it. Which won't be until the fall. We are hoping and praying the bank will work with us and understand where we are coming from. We have paid down all of our CC debt plus paid some off. We have both cars paid off. So we are in a good financial standing we just don't have the money saved and it would take us a year to do!

If Timmy has no sperm after doing the procedure then we will have to wait an extra month to collect the money for a donor. We have it saved now, but that will go towards Timmy's surgery so we will have to wait til April to start BC so we could have the extra money for the donor(I'll write another blog about this subject as this one is getting very long).

If Timmy does have sperm and its great then he will take some time off to have the surgery done so that we could do it on our own next time we can get pregnant!

So we have a basic plan of what we are going to do. Lets pray but April 2011 we will have our little baby Savannah Joy or Bentley Joseph on the way!! KMFX

Anyways I will be doing another blog maybe tomorrow about the donor!!