One Week down...

It will be officially 1 week that I've been on suppression medication for our IVF cycle tomorrow morning. I haven't had many side effects. The biggest one has been hot flashes and some mild nausea. (Oh, and emotional beyond belief!!) On Wednesday I start the Lupron and I'm excited to be on to the injectable portion. I think it will feel more real to me when I'm doing that versus just popping pills each morning.

Yesterday DH and I met with the financial person at our clinic to sign off on the new prices. She also informed us that their policy on submitting claims to the insurance company has changed. Because I have used up my entire IF coverage and the clinic is aware of that they will no longer submit the claims. This REALLY sucks, as my insurance company has been paying for the odd blood test or venipuncture here and there because of the code they use to submit it. So, the plan is we will pay for all of it out of pocket and then submit it to the insurance company afterwards to try and be reimbursed for something. DH has only used approximately $800 of his lifetime coverage so we can put all of the embryology costs on his insurance, which is fantastic. We have to have our payment in full to them at my suppression check. Our procedure room fee (separate check/separate company) for the ER will be due in full at the ER. After we signed away our savings, we met with one of the nurse coordinators (other Sarah) to finish signing our IVF consent forms. She was super nice. She went over a few things I had questions on and was funny and helpful and supportive. So, of the 3 nurse coordinators I've worked with so far, both of the Sarah's have been my favorite and weekend nurse was so-so.

After our appointments at the clinic, we walked across the street to pay our bill for the HSG at the hospital. It was a LONG walk through the hospitals basement to get to finance. We then stood around for 10-15 minutes waiting for someone to show up at the desk. She finally came back with a snack (looks like she ran to the cafeteria) and we paid the bill. It kills me to see all this money going out, but as my DH put it, "Do you want a baby, or not?" It's just frustrating that this is the route we have to take. I know it will be all worth it in the end and I know you can't put a price on having a healthy pregnancy and baby, but it still is mind boggling at times.