Moving Forward Some More

I got an email from my IF on Thursday letting me know that our egg donor has passed all of her medical screenings. Huzzah! She is, however, a carrier for Mucolipidosis, Type IV. It's a very rare disorder that affects vision, etc. This means nothing for her, as she's simply a carrier; she doesn't have it. However, the clinic has advised my IF to get checked to see if he's a carrier for it as well. This won't affect the surrogacy even if he is a carrier; it just means he'll have to go see a genetic counselor.

So hopefully I'll hear from the clinic this week as far as when the egg donor and I should start our respective "cycling" medications.

On a more frustrating note, it seems that the lawyer I specified to review the contract on my behalf is dragging his feet. I checked with the agency nearly two weeks ago and they said they had sent the contract out the previous week. So I emailed the lawyer who responded that the contract had in fact arrived and that I would hear from him within the week. Two weeks later, not a peep. -grumble-

Anxiety and Hope All Rolled Into One

Our egg donor's test results are supposed to be back this week! I'm going crazy waiting to hear!

News and Bills

Got a bill today from the IVF clinic wanting a large sum for the medical screening we did back in May. Of course our IF paid for the services right there at the clinic, so there shouldn't have been a bill. I called to find out what was going on, and long story short, as my IF so aptly put it, the right hand wasn't communicating clearly with the left. Just to make sure he was kept abreast of the situation though, I emailed him about it.

He responded quickly and let me know that not only had he paid for the services, he had a receipt he could show them if they needed it. He also informed me that our egg donor goes in for her screening TOMORROW! And we should have her results back, hopefully, in about 2 weeks. After that, the head nurse from the IVF clinic will call me to let me know when our egg donor and I will start cycling and how.

Huzzah! This is real and is actually happening!

Scares and Reassurance

Two weeks ago today I got a phone call from the GC coordinator at the clinic. She said she got the results of my lab work back. So of course, I was all excited to hear that I had passed the exams. What she said, however, was nothing like what I had expected. She told me I had Chlamydia. I. Freaked. Out. I have never once in my life had an STI, and since the hubs has never been with anyone but me, there was no chance I had gotten it from him. Well, the coordinator told me that they've been getting a lot of false-positives on that particular test lately, and they were having their lab equipment checked, but said she needed me and the hubs to get checked locally, just to be sure.

Needless to say within an hour of that phone call, he and I were in our local clinic waiting to go give samples. The provider was very sweet and did her best to reassure me that it was not unlikely, given my clean history, that a false-positive was what we had, but that she would let us know for sure once she got the test results back.
Last Friday, she called us to tell us that our results had come in and that neither the hubs nor I had Chlamydia. She faxed the lab printout to the clinic, and I got word from our Intended Father this week that we have all passed our medical and psychological exams, and that we just need to wait for our egg donor to be screened.

PHEW!