5 Years and Counting . . . .

This month - September 2014 - marks five years since we started trying to have kids. It's hard to believe how much time has passed, but harder is to think of how much longer we have to wait. We're only a little over a fourth of the way to our goal. Family and friends have generously helped us get that number up (thank you!), but we still have a LONG way to go.

One bit of good news is that there is now a fertility clinic here in Logan (more accurately, in Providence) - YAY!!! This means that we don't have to take entire days off of work to do treatments over an hour away from home. It's right between our house and where we work, which is perfect! I saw a billboard near our house saying there was a new fertility clinic, and looked it up online when we got home. We wanted to see if their costs were comparable to the clinic in Sandy, so I called the number online. They didn't answer, and it was after 5, so we figured that we would just call the next day. A couple hours later, I got a call from an unknown number, and I answered it (which is COMPLETELY out of character for me - I pretty much never answer my phone, unless I know who it is). It was the doctor calling! Not a nurse, the actual doctor! The way this clinic works is they have a PhD and an MD - the MD does the medical procedures, and the PhD does the lab work and other procedures. It was the PhD that called me. At 7:30 P.M., way after normal work hours. And then we talked for almost 90 minutes - and got charged NOTHING. Other clinics charge almost $300 for the EXACT same thing. We talked about what fertility treatments we've already done, what our plan for our next treatments was, and his recommendations. It was really cool!

Suffice it to say, we are really excited for this new clinic! Now we just need to trip over a bag of money so we can actually start treatment . . .