Dan had his appointment at the clinic at 8:00am this morning to drop off a sample. We set the alarm for 6:30am and I got to stay in bed for a couple more hours while he rushed to the fertility clinic. Loved it! A total first for us!
I imagine this shouldn't be a stressful cycle since I'm totally out of the picture here. No shots, no ultrasound appointments, no getting fat and all hormonal, it should be easy breezy... however, I already had two tall glasses of wine last night (totally not me) and had a hard time sleeping. Wish I didn't take things so seriously... Hopefully once these contract papers get signed and the money is out of the bank, when I feel there is nothing else I can do about it, maybe I'll relax. I wish I could be more laid back..
UPDATE: Just got the call about the analysis. The doctor himself called me and said they could only find 6 sperm in the whole sample! And they weren't even moving! What???? It has NEVER been that bad. The doctor asked if Dan was taking testosterone, no way he is! He said he has never seen such a bad sample, we are in shock!
Dan has been complaining about a little hard area down there and when he went to his urologist (famous doctor in BH), he said that it could be scar tissue from the TESE he had years back, so we were not worried. Now Dan is wondering if it's something more serious. Thank God he insisted on testing a sample before moving forward....
On a very positive note, I immediately called CC.RM, we had sent the notarized document to dispose of Dan's sample that we had there frozen. We sent the cancellation form about 2 weeks ago, we didn't want to pay $300 for storage. Well, the good news is they still have it! The girl at the lab had to physically go and check because the paperwork was already in the disposing pile. She said most likely by tomorrow morning it would have been gone. Regardless of the terrible news, I feel so so lucky!
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Maybe he's had a vericocele develop? When I was first diagnosed w/PCOS, my OB/GYN recommended getting DH tested. We didn't have any reason to think anything was wrong on that side, but the OB/GYN said it was quick and easy to test, so we might as well just to confirm everything was okay.
ReplyDeleteI remember when the he called with the results. At first I thought it meant 5 million. Then he kept talking, saying something about IVF, and I thought 'Ok, he meant 5 thousand.' Then when he said there wouldn't even be enough to do IVF, I said "5 thousand isn't enough for IVF??" and he said, "No, 5, like the number of fingers I have on my hand." I was shocked and devastated.
I'm glad you were able to contact CCRM before it was too late!
Yes! Same thing with me, when he said 6 I was like "what?" He's always had a at least 8 million, minimum!! Bad quality and not moving, but 8 million, never ever even in the thousands...
DeleteSo? Did your dh's situation get resolved?
oh my goodness. so sorry to read yoru bad news. thank goodness you called CCRM so quickly!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad CCRM had not thrown out Dan's stash yet. Wow - so many twists and turns in your journey!
ReplyDeleteI know! What an insane roller coaster!
DeleteHOLY CRAP! And, yeah, I second the variocele - I had a friend whose husband had that happen. It was fixable, but thank g-d you have the CCRM sample!!!
ReplyDeleteWow...that's crazy! I hope everything with him is OK and thank goodness CCRM hadn't disposed of that sample yet.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! Thank goodness you were able to get to the frozen sample before they disposed of it.
ReplyDeletelove your blog...look, the way you write and your honesty. i attached your blog to mine.....wishing you well on your journey. are you in CO? I go to CCRM as well. stillnotpregnant.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteWow! What a rollercoaster of emotions for you guys. And what a huge relief that the sperm stash is still safe. Phew!
ReplyDeleteThis was a nail biter! Yikes. How lucky that you still had that sample. Hopefuly it's nothing serious that caused that bad sample. Please keep us posted!
ReplyDeleteoh, man...
ReplyDeleteif it is not one thing, it is another...
i'm sorry you are having this stress!
you know, we had friends who had a varicole issue, they did ivf- his sample had FOUR single sperm in it- and they had to go in to get them- however, they were able to create 3 embryos with them... it is crazy to think of these small numbers when normally there are millions and millions...
thank the heavens above for the sample at CCRM!! this is a great thing... so what is the plan?
can you go over the timing of what is happening over the next month?
thinking of you, as always...
and, yeah, sometimes a tall glass of wine is just right, but sometimes it just adds to the underlying stress. yuck.
The doctor is calling me today to discuss. I'm thinking that we have time, and if it's better to wait until his fresh sperm gets better, even if that means using another donor later, maybe that's what we should do :(
DeleteHoly moses, that is insane! This is more suspenseful than a James Bond movie! OK, so you get the CCRM sample unfrozen -- presumably it had more than 6 spermies -- and then what happens? Is everything else going to move pretty quickly now?
ReplyDeleteWell, the problem is that frozen sperm is never that good, they always like fresh. CCRM liked fresh and this new clinic also wanted fresh. Now that there's no fresh they are saying to use the frozen as a back up... How can I feel confident when no one wanted to really use the frozen sample in the first place?
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