We've been quiet lately. After our last meeting with the doctor, the nurse practitioner told us that there was no rush and that we should get our finances squared away first, so that is what we have been doing. We checked prices with the pharmacies. The best price we got was a little over $5,800 with a $600 rebate. Medicine is definitely not cheap. The entire process will cost around $6,500-$7,000. We've also been checking on interest rates for loans. I'm here to tell you that interest rates are not good for personal loans right now, even with stellar credit like ours.
We brought home a pamphlet from the doctor's office that was for a loan program especially for infertility patients. It had extremely low interest rates. We had contacted them and gotten information and planned to use them. Richard called back this week and found out that they only give loans for actual procedures and not medication, which they conveniently left out the first time we spoke with them. That was a bummer. Now we have to use our bank, which has much higher interest rates, but it's all okay. We are just going to try and make larger payments and get it paid off sooner.
We will start the next treatment around the first week in November. This will be a very long and drawn out process and will take six weeks, if not longer, to complete. I will start off with 2-3 weeks of birth control pills and blood work monitoring my hormone levels. After that, I will start an extensive regimen of extremely expensive drugs. I will take the full regimen of IVF drugs to find out how well my body responds.
We are looking at a few possibilities. 1. Maybe God will work a miracle and I'll be pregnant when I go back to the doctor and never have to do the treatment. 2. The treatment will work, and I will get pregnant this time. 3. I will respond well to the treatment but not achieve pregnancy, which means we will have to take out a loan for IVF. 4. I may not respond well at all, and we will have to adopt because IVF won't be an option. This is where we are, and no matter what, we will get some answers.
We appreciate your prayers and concern. We have been battling infertility for almost ten years now. We are ready for this battle to end. God has a plan. He is in control. Our faith has definitely been tested, but we know that we have to keep fighting the good fight. He has blessed us so many times throughout this journey, and no matter what happens, we are still going to praise him. God is so good. He is our Jehovah Rapha and Jehovah Jireh.
Here is the link to our fundraising site for those who would like to contribute: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/our-journey-to-parenthood/50742.
Thanks!
