Maybe 2022 Will Be Our Year
After an excruciating wait, we finally had our follow-up with Dr. Elliot. He agrees with our thoughts that endometriosis might be a concern with my unexplained infertility (as it is with ~30% of unexplained infertility cases) and the pain/discomfort I have been experiencing.
Dr. Elliot has suggested that we hold off on IVF Round 2 until I have a laparoscopy. My need is seen as somewhat urgent so I will be closer to the top of the list to get this done. He is hopeful I can have my surgery booked for November/December, as long as this 4th wave of COVID does not put a pause on elective surgeries. If it does, he worries it might be more than 6 months before we get this done.
Until my laparoscopic surgery I will be continuing with Letrozole cycles so we can at least feel like we are doing something. After my laparoscopy we will move on to our final round of IVF with a much more aggressive protocol. We hope to end up with enough embryos for me to try a few transfers and/or proceed with finding a surrogate.
On the adoption front… we will be having our virtual Initial Interview and Application Meeting early October. However, that is as far as the process will go for us until their next Education Seminar at the end of January. In 2022 our perspective parent file will be open but we will still be at the mercy of being chosen. A process that can take 1-10 years.
I won’t lie and say this doesn’t all suck. When we started fertility treatment a year ago I thought by now we would definitely at least have a baby on the way or even another miscarriage. Right now I am feeling further away from the goal than ever. Luckily, we are working with an agency that allows you to pursue fertility treatments while you wait for a match. So we don’t yet have to make a choice on which road to go down, we can at least go down all of them simultaneously.
2020 and 2021 might not have brought us a baby, but here’s hoping 2022 does.