Gotta Love those Navy Clinics

Have I mentioned how much I love the health clinic I go to? (yes that question was dripping with sarcasm) Today I had a doctor appointment with my PCM (primary care manager for you non-military folks). I needed a referral to an OB/GYN at a civilian clinic because *if* I get pregnant then the health clinic on base doesn't have the capability of treating pregnant women. And *if* I don't get pregnant then the u/s tech here said I'm better off going to an OB/GYN for my next FET scans.

So I'm sitting in the office explaining to my PCM (who is about my age) my reasoning for needing said referral. She was super nice and listened as I explained about my upcoming FET, blah blah blah. She agreed to refer me. So I stop by the referral desk to get it all activated and here is what my referral printout says (verbatim):

"29 y/o female with history of pcos and female infertility. Recently had a frozen embryo implanted through Willmac. Needs continuted f/u. Please evaluate and treat. Thank you"

Call me annoyingly anal about this but we do not have embryos implanted, we have them transferred to our fluffy uterus and pray to the tiny infant Jesus that they implant and stick around for 9 months, or at least long enough to produce a living breathing human being. I guess I always assumed that all medical professionals would see this obvious difference. Then again, I suppose I should just be thankful that she spelled embryo right. Cause she sure as hell didn't spell WOMACK right!

On a different note, I think I'm going to be having a giveaway soon, to celebrate my upcoming FET. And it will keep me occupied during the 2WW. I'll be announcing it soon so be on the lookout for it!

Baseline Ultrasound...and a Question

I don't really like the health clinic here in Groton. It's small and the people here are fairly inexperienced. It takes forever to get results from tests and it just sucks in general. Nurse D was kind enough to print out a letter stating the days I would need my ultrasound appointments, the bloodwork that had to be done, and specifically stated that she wanted the results the same day to be faxed to her. So last month I go to the radiology dept with my handy letter and show them that I need my first appointment on the 5th, the second on the 12th, third on the 18th, and fourth on the 24th. Well apparently they couldn't book that far in advance so they only scheduled my first appointment (today's, which was my baseline u/s and everything looked fine). They copied the info from the letter onto the appointment order and asked me why I was getting the ultrasounds. I explained that it was for a frozen embryo transfer.

This morning while I'm on the table getting ready, I looked over at the medical record and see that my ultrasound was in fact for a "frozen embreo transplant". I shit you not. The young Navy guy who set me up for my appt probably doesn't even know what an embryo is, much less an embreo.

The ultrasound room doesn't have a table with stirrups. Instead I get to lay on a gurney with a pillow under my butt. Classy. But the u/s tech seems nice enough. Oh, and the same day results? Sorry but they told me that Dr. P could call them and get the results over the phone but the results wouldn't be in the system for a few days. Same thing with my bloodwork, the lab said they can't do same day results at all. So my happy ass has to swing by Lab.Corp before every ultrasound appointment, get my blood drawn there, and then go to the health clinic for my "frozen embreo tranplant" ultrasounds.

I just have to keep reminding myself that my only other option is to travel down to NC for each appointment, which isn't doable. God this sucks.

***UPDATE*** So my big box of meds just showed up and in it I've got the Lupron, trigger shot, Endometrin and Estrace. But the Estrace wasn't exactly what I had expected. These pills are, well, tiny. And they're supposed to go up my hoo-ha along with the Endometrin but there's no way they will fit in the Endometrin applicator. They're too small. So ummmm, how exactly am I going to get them from Point A (the box) to be Point B (my vajayjay). Is this a, ahem, manual thing? Not sure I can get it very close to my cervix that way. Can any FET ladies out there offer their input?

Props to the Hubby

I've realized lately that when I usually talking about the hubby I'm either bitching about something he did (like this time), complaining about a deployment, or discussing his sperm. This time I am giving major props to my husband for getting PROMOTED! Brandon will soon be pinned as an E-6, something to be proud of considering he's only been in the military for a little more than 5 years. He found out last week. We were really not expecting him to get picked up the first time he took the test, especially when we found out that they only chose 19 out of about 90 sailors and not many guys get promoted on the first try. When the results came out and he found out he made the cut, he also found out why...he was in the 99th PERCENTILE on the exam!! The same thing happened for the E-5 exam. I consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person but I've never scored in the 99th percentile in anything! I swear, my husband is a friggin genius. But that's not always a good thing, especially when we argue. It's hard for me to accept when he's right (I'm sure some of you ladies can sympathize with that!) But anyway, I just want to publicly brag about the hubby and say how proud I am of him. He definitely deserves it.

I love the Navy

As if our first IVF isn't going to be stressful enough, Brandon and I have no idea where we'll be living in 5 months. He is due to leave his command and go on shore duty at the end of May. This means NO deployments for three glorious years. As soon as Brandon returned from his deployment in November he began applying for a new billet. He only applied for one....Kings Bay, GA. Most of my family lives in Georgia, at the very least my whole family lives on the East Coast. Brandon's family is from Utah but he isn't really close to them and we've only visited them twice in the past three years we've been here. Besides, he has like 14 brothers and sisters scattered around the Midwest and I've only met 3 or 4 of them.

Anyway, back to my point. We waited and waited to see if he was selected for this billet in Kings Bay. After a month we discovered he was supposed to interview for the position! WTF. So now we're back at square one. Every month new billets become available. This month we have the choice between Bangor, WA (where we live now), Kings Bay, GA, Groton, CT (aka Rotten Groton), and Great Lakes, IL. He (meaning we) decided to apply for Bangor and Kings Bay. He still has to screen for both positions and I suppose it will be February before we find out where we'll be living. There are pros and cons to both duty stations so I really can't decide which one I would like more. Besides the totally crappy weather that we have to deal with in Washington and the fact that my family is 3000 miles way, it's really not that bad living here.

If he is NOT selected for any of the billets he applied for this month, he will be shoved into "Needs of the Navy" and could be sent anywhere the Navy needs him. That means another sea duty, maybe even a sea duty somewhere really crappy....like Guam. Let's just say I'm praying really hard that he gets accepted for one of the billets.

I'm not bitching about the military or saying that it sucks, I'm just saying that this is all a little issue of bad timing. I thought that we would have found out about his new duty station and now we won't know anything till around my embryo transfer. Can't a girl get a break?