I should be doing time sheets

Instead I'm hiding out at SBUX, enjoying a leisurely breakfast.  Wife and I met with the cute fertility doctor (hereafter referred to as Dr. Hotness) at 7 AFM this morning.  We're still waiting for the rest of the bills from the IVF to roll in, but I think we've used about $20K of our $25K insurance limit.  Our out-of-pocket costs will probably come to 15% - 20% of that and we really don't have a lot more to add.  I wanted to discuss some of the results from previous testing (they did a sperm count on me during the IVF process and my numbers were low, but not terrible) and discuss next steps.  What can we do with around $5K, since another round of IVF is, unfortunately, unattainable.

My visiting a urologist is not likely to produce any functional results.  Dr. Hotness recommended IUI, which is doing the same regiment of fertility drugs for a couple of weeks to produce lots of super strong eggs, then trying to get pregnant the old fashioned way.  We lose the advantage of genetic testing and the odds of success are lower than with IVF.  But it's much less expensive, we have some drugs left over from last time, and the clinic has a program where they get samples and donated drugs to help defray the cost.  My sperm counts are good enough that this has a reasonable chance of success.  We'll start in a few weeks, at Wife's next cycle.

You can't imagine how happy this made her.  She's been mopey and depressed for weeks now, afraid that we'll never become parents, that her dream is over, life as we know it is coming to an end, blah blah blah.  I'm tenacious.  I know there was more we could do, we just needed to figure out how to fit a square peg in a round hole.

This also means that I'm guaranteed to get laid in about 5 or 6 weeks.  Mark your calendar.