The Beginning of the Journey

Well, I am going to try my hand at this blog thing to keep a record of all that we are about to go through. But to get into that, I have to start at the beginning. Barry and I were married almost ten years ago in 1998. I was ready to have a baby right away, but my hubby was not. I was okay with that. After barry's first trip to Saudi Arabia in 2001, he told me that he was ready to start trying. I was ecstatic. So we tried, and tried, and tried some more.
Finally, after many doctors telling us that we were both healthy and young, one doctor told me that I might have PCOS. They did tests, and while I did not have any cysts, I did have a glucose intolerance. I went on metformin and tried some more. Still nothing. By this point it is 2005. The doctor decided to order an HSG where they shoot fluid into your fallopian tubes to see if they are blocked. One was completely blocked and the other was blocked but supposedly unblocked during the procedure. So, we thought we had a good chance.
Then we got orders to Germany and things got put on hold. I went to the OB/GYN on base and they decided to start me on clomid. Barry got tested and all was fine. I tried the clomid, bought OPKs, and even spent the money on the Clear Blue Easy Monitor that you see on TV. Still nothing. During the time that I was wasting time on Clomid, the OB closed down on base. So, they decided to send me to a specialist.
My appointment with the specialist was November 5, 2007. I think it will be a long time before I forget that day. We were feeling kind of strange anyway because no one spoke English. We were uncomfortable. When we finally got into the doctor's office, he proceeded to tell us that he believed that the only option for us was IVF. I was shocked because I was expecting a surgery to open my tubes and then shots or something like that. But to go straight to the IVF, that freaked me out. But the doctor suggested that we should bypass the bad parts (my tubes) and do the IVF.
I had a hard time with all of this. And then I started to feel better, and we started to plan to start the IVF process. We were going to do it in December 2007. But then Barry had to go to Iraq for 2 months. So we had to put everything off.
But now we are getting close again. Any day now and I will be starting the birth control pills to get this show on the road. Who would have thought that I would have to take bcps to get pregnant. Really weird. But whatever it takes, right?
Until then.......