Free Meds at a Cost

Yes, another little ditty about the military healthcare system. I get an automated phone call message from the TriCare system letting me know (well, not me but the patient born on 5-3-1971) that medications had been ordered and filled and would be reshelved if I didn't get them by yesterday.

So, I make my way to Walter Reed Army Hospital to find that there weren't many people there waiting in the pharmacy. I took my number and realized that they were on #5 and I was #32. Yep, the other smart people had grabbed their number and were probably off having coffee and a doughnut. I waited and waited and when I finally made it up to the window, I waited another twenty minutes for them to fill my order. I didn't know such things as birth control pills, estrogen, progesterone, pre-natal vitamins and lupron were such RARE medications that they had to literally mix them up on the spot.

Anyhow, I guess I survived my impatience and their chronic slowness. My bathroom cabinet now looks like a fertility pharmacy with OPK's, pregnancy tests, clomid, and all the drugs named above.

I am hoping to ovulate in two days and do another IUI, but I seem to have lost my hope in IUI's. This will be #4 and my post-IVF hope in something more natural (ha!) has waned. Yep, after this one fails (oh how pessimistic) then I am pulling out the heavy artillery on my eggs. We'll do the frozen embryos (probably with assisted hatching) and then another IVF if necessary. I hope God sits up and takes note that I MEAN SERIOUS BUSINESS HERE...PREGNANT BUSINESS!

There's nothing like placing demands on God...I've found that the divine one can be quite elusive and gets great humour in our planning and timetables.