Ok, so here is the back story... because you care and all....

Picture it: Lancaster, PA. 2006. Josh and Andrea exchange vows... yadda, yadda. February 2007: Josh and Andrea decide it's time to make some babies!
August 2007: No babies.
February 2008: Still no babies... hmmmmm.
March 2008: Josh and Andrea go to respective doctors. Andrea's doctor says, "You're fine. You're husband is the problem!" Josh's doctor says, "You have a vericocele in your testicle! Must fix immediately with expensive surgery!"
July 2008: Vericocelectomy! Josh is fixed!
December 2008: Still no babies... HMMMMMM!
February 2009: See Reproductive Endocrinologist who declares, "At your age, the two of you should get pregnant by looking at each other!"
March 2009: Start expensive series of testing. RE knows within 1 minute of sticking ultrasound wand up Andrea's cooter that she has stage 4 endometriosis because endometriomas are smiling and waving for the ultrasound camera. Funny, because Andrea mentioned to first doctor that she thought she might have endometriosis and first doctor said, "Mere mortal with no MD... stop the self diagnostics! You are fine!"
April 2009: RE tells Josh and Andrea that IVF is the answer! RE has no shared risk program which would make Josh and Andrea feel more secure about spending ALL of their money on expensive procedures with no guarantee of success.
June 2009: Josh and Andrea find RE with shared risk program and sign their lives away!

So that's it in a nut shell. The Vericocelectomy was completely pointless because we had to go through IVF anyway. Sometimes I get so incredibly angry with my doctor that totally blew me off and said I was fine. He would have had to order a single ultrasound costing apx. $300 that would have saved my husband $20,000 worth of pointless surgery. Ok... I'm going to get preachy here for a second: When it comes to your reproductive health, STAND UP FOR YOURSELF! BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE! If you really feel that something is wrong, make your doctor order additional tests! It could have saved us months of heartache and thousands of dollars. But, I digress....

As of today, I'm still pregnant. I had some weird brown blood on my progesterone inserter thinger so I immediately called my RE in a state of panic! She said that it was probably no big deal. My first ultrasound will be on Wednesday. Little did I know that getting the positive pregnancy test was only the beginning. I want to see that little heartbeat more than anything in the world....

Yours truly,

Andrea