As on board as we were with the adoption path we still had medication that was very costly left over, enough to do another cycle. So I gave myself a pep talk and scheduled the appointments for the next month. I went to the doctor by myself as my husband was still in Panama, and the doctor performed the ultrasound after my blood draw. In the ultrasound he found a cyst and stopped this months procedure. I was devastated, yet relieved I didn't have to subject myself to the agony. This break gave me enough time to change my attitude for the next month.
When we talked to Dr. Cooper he explained that a possible risk of this medication would be that I overstimulated, which meant I would produce more than 5 follicles and in that case we would have to convert to IVF. The IVF talk had been thrown around between my husband and I but felt we rather use that money for adoption which would result in a baby verse the chance of a baby with IVF. However a light bulb thought hit me and made me think what if we overstimulated on purpose and had to convert to IVF, would the cost be less? Our insurance covered a portion of everything non IVF, so the minute we start labeling it as IVF it was out of pocket. We talked with Dr. Cooper about this option and he was on board. We were pumped. One small problem. We had planned a vacation in Miami during the time I would need to be on bed rest for the transfer. So, we did another normal round of the insemination hoping it would result in the newly revised plan.
It did not work so we were set to do the conversion in August. I know it seems we flip flopped on what we had originally planned but we both decided a) would we rather spend the $6500 on the IVF conversion and it work verse the $40,000 on adoption and b) would we always have that thought in the back of our mind what if we just did the IVF and it was successful?
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