Decision Made

A decision has been made, possibly one of the biggest of our lives! We have decide to do IVF and MicroTESE surgery simultaneously.

This means we will go through IVF and the day I have my egg retrieval surgery Eric will have his MicroTESE surgery. It is a huge risk since there is no guarantee there will be any sperm found but we feel it is the right move. We have made this decision based on a few things. 1. My AMH levels continue to drop so the longer we wait for me to do IVF the higher risk we have of there not being many eggs or not enough of good quality 2. We have almost fulfilled our insurance deductible for the year and 3. Probably most importantly, Eric’s doctor has told us it is common to lose 50% of the sperm during the thaw after they have been frozen. Since we don’t know exactly what we are dealing with and we might end up only finding a few that is not a risk we are willing to take. By us doing everything together we will have my eggs ready to go and any sperm that is found can be used to fertalize them right away. Then the embryos can be frozen for us to do a FET (frozen embryo transfer) at a later date.

It is hard to explain the emotions I am feeling right now, so excited to finally be moving on but scared at the same time for what could happen. I also feel a huge sense of relief now that we have a plan in place. Eric will do his 5th and final Semen Analysis next Tuesday just in case the medicine finally kicked in, I’m not hopeful. We also have our final IVF consult next Friday to go over all of the plans, details, timelines, meet the doctor and find out what we have to do. I’m hoping from there we will be able to get started with my next cycle, which by my tracking should be somewhere around August 20th. If all goes well we should be doing egg retrieval and MicroTESE somewhere around the first week of September.

I am so excited to see what happens, I know this is the next step towards our future and our family, a major goal of ours. While I am crossing my fingers and praying they find sperm I am completely aware that the odds are against us. No matter what at least I have my best friend and partner by my side and we are going through this and figuring all of this out together and that is huge!