Last IUI Ever

Yep, it's finally o-v-e-r. We did our final IUI this morning. The last time we declared our "final" IUI was last June and it worked, sort of, otherwise we would not have made the last two attempts. The new doctor looked over our entire chart before we got there this morning and broke the news a little differently than the other two doctors. She pretty much said that there is no use to continue with the IUI's because we have been at this way too long without a positive result. She suggested that we move on to IVF with ICSI, which only costs a cool $10,500 plus the cost of the drugs. I was actually glad to hear this news from her because she was much more empathetic and worried about the toll the whole process is taking on us than the other doctors let on. This is not to say that they aren't caring because I love working with all of them, but I think the fact that this doctor is a woman allowed her convey the message in a more caring manner. So, unless we have a miracle in the next couple of weeks we'll be waiting until we have money to do IVF. The feelings I have now most resemble a break-up because we have to say it is over and we have to move on, but it is especially hard when you get so used to doing something like this.

As for this morning's appointment, Rich's count was 4.5 million but we won't know the morphology until tomorrow sometime. There was still only one lead follicle, but it was the right size for a mature egg, so there is still some hope. We are crossing our fingers and toes that we don't have to even think about our future with IVF!