Busy Week

It's been quite the busy week, both at work and on the TTC journey. On Monday, Mr. Bella had his urologist appointment with Dr. S. Dr. S kind of pissed me off in the process but Mr. Bella thought I was being overly sensitive. First of all, he said that semen analyses can be "grossly inaccurate" in his opinion and asked how long we have been TTC. I told him that we've been trying for over a year, but that I have always had irregular cycles so with the exception of the crap S/A results, that we had never had any reason to believe that Mr. Bella would have any kind of fertility issue -- we've always just assumed the problem is me and that he was fine. OK, normal question.

Then Dr. S looked at me and said, "How old are you, anyway, if you don't mind me asking?" And when I told him, he kind of had a smirk and I swear I thought I saw him roll his eyes. I wanted to tear him a new one -- here we are, at an appointment for something extremely personal, and you're going to pass judgment on the fact that we're having problems, and seeking assistance? When, exactly, were we supposed to get help -- at the point when I'm going through menopause and we still haven't conceived? It's not like we tried for one month and decided we'd better go get help when it didn't happen immediately. Anyway, he did examine Mr. Bella and said that everything appears to be normal. The plan is for him to repeat his S/A, at an actual clinic (instead of driving it to the hospital like last time), allow for more time for things to build up since I think we jumped the gun last time, AND hope for much better results. And we're also going to hope for no more visits with Dr. S because, frankly, his bedside manner sucks. While we were there, I could hear him talking to other patients loudly in the hallway about their conditions. Now that time, Mr. Bella and I were on the same page -- shouldn't you be having those types of discussions in the exam room? Anyway, that was Monday.

I went for my CD3 bloodwork on Tuesday, and a baseline ultrasound today. My results on both of those were completely normal. So apparently, I just don't ovulate on my own (or at least, very rarely) for some reason. I guess I'm relieved but kind of confused too -- at least there's nothing wrong, though, so far. I have my HSG scheduled for next week, so I just need to get through that and hopefully my tubes are open and everything looks good there too.

My RE also prescribed me Clomid, which I was kind of surprised by since I haven't had my HSG yet and Mr. Bella still hasn't had a good S/A result -- hopefully that means that my RE is optimistic about things, and that he'll end up being right. I've got my fingers crossed for good results with those two tests, and some sort of response to Clomid. I feel like everything is happening pretty quickly, and I'm cautiously optimistic so far.