Can This Week Just Be Over Please? June 9, 2005
I’m really not having a great time this week. Tuesday wasn’t much fun, and yesterday wasn’t either. Our water was out all day long. I hate that. I had a dentist appointment yesterday afternoon and had to go without taking a shower. Yuck. Plus, I hate going to the dentist. Oh, that scraping noise just about does me in. I just had to keep reminding myself that it was nowhere near as bad as the hysteroscopy.
Now I’m trying valiantly to deal with all of the administrative crap that comes along with changing RE’s. I’m very glad to be moving along in the RE world, but it’s a pain. I’ve got a pile of consents sitting here waiting to be filled out and signed. That’s always fun.
Tomorrow I have to go to a teach visit. Apparently it’s required of everyone cycling at my new RE’s office. I doubt I’ll be “taught” anything. I mean, what else is there to know? I’ll be getting my calendar and prescriptions, though, so I guess that’s worth the trip. I managed to talk my nurse into letting my husband skip the teach visit, though, so at least that’s good.
The real pain in my ass at the moment is trying to arrange the transportation of my husband’s sperm from my old clinic to my new one. It is not an easy process. There are almost as many forms to fill out for that as for the entire IVF procedure. One of them even has to be notarized.
Yesterday, after several phone calls, I finally got approved to bring the sperm over to my new clinic tomorrow. Then I had to call my old clinic. Not exactly something I was looking forward to. I found out that there may or may not be a tank available tomorrow. They’re supposed to be getting one back today, but it’s not guaranteed. I have to call back this afternoon to see if it made it back. I also tried to convince old clinic not to charge me for use of the tank since we’ve paid them a bigillion dollars already. I’m still waiting to hear about that, too. If I can’t manage to finagle my way into using the tank for free, I’ll have to pay $200. That better not happen.
I’ll be glad when all of this administrative crap is over and done with. Can’t we just fast forward to an easy part? I’d take shooting up over this any day.
- Posted in : IVF Part 5: IVF #3
- Author : amanda
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Doing all that paperwork is awful. Best of luck with the old REs office on getting the tank for free.
My God, there’s a fee for using the tank! How much more money can they drain from an infertile. I swear, it’s worse than a wedding.
Sorry you have to go through all that. I hope this RE works out way better than the other one, but is that really a hard thing to do :)
Geez, talk about nickle and diming you to death. At least with your calendar you’re on your way (sorta).
Oh yeah - the admin crap of moving RE’s - hate it! Did I ever tell you about the fiasco of moving my single embryo? Yeah, fun.
I think I spent like 2 months handling frozen sperm transfer: signing forms, picking dates, renting a tank, setting up shipping… good for you that you’ll drive it yourself.
I was left, though, with an impression that the women who worked at both andrology labs (and they were all women) were incredibly sweet people. Perhaps because only incredibly sweet people could stand dealing with sperm all day?