Two Years

Is how long we've now been trying to get pregnant... But I start Lupron tomorrow. :)

It's funny that this "anniversary" happens to coincide with the electoral cycle, but only a political junkie like me would probably even notice this.

Two years ago...
-We had been together for almost four years, in our house for nearly three, and had recently celebrated our second wedding anniversary.

-It was the short window in the year when we are both the same age, at that time, 32.

-S had finally received his permanent residency (after ten yrs of slogging and waiting and unimaginable employer snafus) and had just taken his big PE exam (after many more unexpected delays), finally freeing him to look for a new job (which also coincidentally brought us our current IF bennies).

-I had been at my last job for a year, and was therefore finally FMLA and almost full STD eligible, but bigger yet, my boss, who had just buried her husband of eight years after he battled brain cancer for five, had just returned to work. The bottom had fallen out of the economy, but we would work for a few more months on the CEO's pet project until our VP (and many others) were let go, the project was cancelled, and we were left in limbo for months until we were finally reassigned.

-I had been off the pill for nearly two years (after ten years on them) and was super regular, boosting my confidence that even though my period had been wacky in my teens, that we would be able to get pregnant fairly easily. Oh, the wishful thinking...

-My sister was getting ready to have her second baby in as many years (she now, of course, has another). My best friend from college, married a year, had just had her first (she now has a second), but otherwise most of my close friends didn't have kids, now of course most of them do.

Since then:
-We've been to five different RE's at four clinics in two states. I've had three surgeries (two of them a complete waste) and have been on more meds than I care to recall. S has had three SA's and has been to a urologist. We've done three failed treatment cycles. I've had more Dr's appts., blood drawn, and transvag u/s than I can even begin to count. We've already spent thousands and thousands of dollars OOP, even though we have IF coverage and a $250 deductible PPO.

-On the family front, we've sadly and prematurely lost my father-in-law, who two years ago was doing absolutely fabulous after having emergency bypass surgery the previous year. My sister's new baby was dx with craniosynostosis (which was corrected by surgery) but thankfully is not afflicted with a syndrome. My older sister was dx with cancer, which is thankfully stage 1. And my grandmother and the matriarch of my family was dx with terminal lymphoma.

If we'd been successful at the start, we'd have a nearly 16 month old toddler and would be trying for #2. Who knows, I could still have two by the time I turn 35. ;) Now wouldn't that be ironic, talk about taking the long hard road...