12DP3DTBeta Day

I got up at the crack of dawn and went to the clinic to do my beta. I did a urine test before leaving and it was negative...so I wasn't expecting much out of it. They make you pay for your visit before you do blood work or see a doctor. I went to the cashier window and she said, "You have a balance due of $500.". I figured it was for my cycle, the part not paid for by the insurance company, but...no...it was a $500 fee for the 2nd tube of sperm that they didn't use.

I said, "Really? You're charging me $500 to store a $200 vial of sperm? That's crazy. Just toss it! I'll buy more when I need it." She: "Well it's for handling your sperm and for freezing it for an entire year." Me: "You guys told me to buy two vials, I only wanted to buy one, and then you only use one and you don't tell me so I don't have a chance to say "toss it"?" This doesn't make sense."

She: "Well your sperm arrived on October 6th and it's nearly November"...then she stopped herself and realized it's only been two and a half weeks. But she didn't say anything more. Only that I'd have to argue the point with someone in accounting. Fine. Sure. I'll do that.

I spent the rest of the day in the city and didn't get home til nearly 3pm. I checked my phone periodically to see if any calls had come in. Nothing.

By 5:30pm we were on the road to see the kids in Philly and I noticed that a call had come in. It was the clinic and they said something like:

"Hi this is the clinic calling about your pregnancy test. Please give us a call back before 4pm to discuss your results. If you can't call by then please call back after 7am on Monday".

THAT WAS IT.

No, "Please continue your meds". Nothing. So, I'm nearly 100% sure that I'm not preggers, but talk about a nagging question hanging there in the air. Hellllllo?

What really sucks is that I drove to Philly without my progesterone, lovenox, or anything with the assumption that the cycle had failed and that they would have left a message for me to confirm the obvious.

I just chatted with the on call nurse who said that they will leave messages about everything except pregnancy results and that it was something that was covered in the IVF class (that I didn't take).

Oy. You would think that this "caveat" would be on the forms that I signed that said "It's okay to leave messages on my cell phone."

What the hell?

Why is this such a cluster fuck?

I'm to call the clinic back at about 11am in the AM to get the results. In the really offchance that I'm knocked up, I'll have to drive 80 something miles home to get my meds. Sheesh.

Stay tuned.