You can't see me right now, but I am totally wearing my happy face...
Why you ask??
Well, Dh is on a work trip in California at the moment. Since it was going to be a two week trip, we decided that I would go visit him for a weekend during his time there. Soooo, at this very moment I am sitting here in a Texas airport waiting to board my plane!! Stoked comes close (though not completely satisfactory an adjective) to what I am feeling at the moment!!
He left last Wednesday and I get to be there tonight through Sunday! Never been to Cali before and the awesome part is, we've worked it out to cost barely anything.
Like I said.....stoked!!!
And some more good news...
We went for my surgery follow up and Dh's appt a few wks ago.
Dr K says I am fine and he's ready to basically hand me off to Dr P again where I live..so we'll start low-dose clomid and HCG injections again next month..
As for Dh..
I was super nervous sitting in the room with him and the moments before the Dr came in I was praying hard...."please let him be nice! Please let him give us hope!!"
As it turned out, Dr S was indeed nice, as well as professional and quite knowledgeable!
He made us feel at ease and gave us more hope than we've had in months!
It was determined that Dh does have a varicocele. He mentioned surgery as an option, but also said he has seen great results from Proxeed (which Dh is already taking!) He hasn't been very consistent (missing quite a bit), but Dr S encouraged him to make sure and take it twice a day and he said we can expect improvement in two months! He said "70% of his patients who consistently took Proxeed saw significant improvement"
He even said we can look at the Proxeed website to get the ingredients at a drugstore to save some money. That stuff is NOT cheap! I gave Dr S a few extra brownie points for mentioning that little tip. :)
He ordered bloodwork for Dh that same day as well to check hormone levels. We got the results today and apparently Dh has low FSH, LSH, and low testosterone.
Dr. S prescribed clomid to help Dh and said his energy levels should go up with this too. Sooo, I guess we get to share meds! Lol.
We will re-do a SA test in two months (uggghhhhhhhhh) to see if there has been improvement and Dh will revisit Dr S in Austin. If we are not already pg of course ;) If nothing has changed, we will pursue surgery to repair the varicocele.
The part of the appointment I was most surprised and thankful for though, was when Dr. S mentioned surgery as an option, Dh spoke right us and said "I'm fine with that." It was a HUGE relief to hear him say that he was ready to do the surgery at any time because that is the part I had been dreading!! The varicocele diagnosis was a bit scary, but Dh took it so well! In the past, we had left those appointments worried, uncertain, scared about what was to come...but with Dh's positive we'll-do-whatever-it-takes attitude, we were able to leave full to the brim of hope!!!
Dh said, "you've already done so much, I'm ready to do whatever it takes"
I know it is by the grace of God that his outlook has completely changed and because of that we are both much calmer heading into these next few months.
So, in a nutshell...
New diagnosis.
New plan.
Great outlook (for us both).
Hope coming out our ears at the moment!!
I don't care if the IF-coaster slams me down in the coming weeks or months...
Right now, I'm gonna take this hope and ride it straight to the top...maybe even catch a glimpse of the good things to come..
I'll take the bad when it inevitably comes...
But right now, I'm gonna fly to L.A.
Spend time with my sweet hubby.
And thanks God for today's blessings.
Worries: you are soooo not invited on this trip.
Oh my gosh welcome to Cali! I am in LA! If you are free we can meet up sometime but I know you are only here for the weekend so no pressure :) You can email me at jkcrowsnest(at)att(dot)net
ReplyDeleteKat!! Oh that is so awesome you are here!! Oh, I wish, wish, WISH I had more time here bc I would love to meet you!!! I'm not sure it would work this time :( I will definitely email you if something changes though! Thanks for the welcome! I am totally loving this weather! And y'all have this all the time?? Way jealous right now ;)
DeleteLove this post and the hope that just overflows from it!!!! Love you sister-have fun in CA!!!
ReplyDeleteLove that you are getting to check out a new place and spend some time with your husband, and I love that you have a plan for moving forward! Fantastic stuff!
ReplyDeleteHave fun in California! Proxeed worked for us. My husband was on it for 6 or 7 months. They never tested his hormones, though. That would be interesting to see if there was an issue there too.
ReplyDeleteHave a great time in Cali!
ReplyDeleteWonderful!!! It is so uplifting to have a diagnosis and plan for the future! And to have DH on board!
ReplyDeleteHave fun in Cali! I've never been, but I'm sure it is picturesque!
So glad to hear the hope in your words! Yay! Great news. you are in my prayers...
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