When it comes to signs and things I'm a bit superstitious. My husband isn't and I know that it makes him sigh and laugh at me. I think I get this from my mum. Both she and her sister, Aunty S have good (lucky) numbers bad (unlucky) numbers. They also believe about things happening in threes, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
This morning I was cleaning out our filing cabinet, looking for a receipt, when instead I found the paper work from when we were house hunting and first inspected our apartment. It was a private inspection, just us at the real estate agent but it was on 25th April 2009. Fast forward four years and that's the day we got our referral to the fertility specialist.
Then a little while later I was out driving to the recycling centre and I heard an ad on the radio for Dr S, the fertility specialist we've been referred too. It was an ad for male fertility and it's not the first time I've heard it. It did remind me that I've got to call Dr S's office and see what the waiting list is like as well as to find out how much the first consult will cost.
I had a few other errands to run while I was out, I wanted to go to the Target a few suburbs away and see if they had any of the discounted polo shirts in my husbands size. As I was driving to Target I heard another ad for Dr S, this time talking about female fertility.
I took that as a sign and resolved to call and make an appointment when I got home. So after I got home, and after I finished procrastinating for about an hour, I rang Dr S to make an appointment. The nurse on the phone was a bit blunt and sort of barked at the phone asking me if this was an IVF appointment. I said I wasn't sure as we'd just been given the referral from our GP, she then told me that Dr S only does initial consults on Fridays and she could make us an appointment for the 7th of June.
Which is fine, I didn't expect an appointment straight away, nor did I want one. She did say that sometimes there's surgical cancellations on Tuesdays and that Dr S will bump initial consult appointments forward but they can't guarantee that there will be an earlier appointment.
The nurse also asked if the GP had ordered any tests or had just given us the referral. So I was a bit relieved when I could tell her what tests we've had done. She said to make sure we have the results of our tests when we go to the initial consult with Dr S. I'd read mixed reviews on whether it's best for the GP to order the tests or the FS.
The 7th of June seems so close but at the same time it seems so far away. I'm still finding it hard to believe we're in May. This week last year I was taking the last few days of my birth control pills. It was late May 2012 that we officially started ttc. Twelve months and ten cycles. Two blood tests (with one more to go), one ultrasound, countless opks and half a dozen epts. And now, an appointment booked to see a fertility specialist.
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