Well, I've been wanting to start a blog for some time now to get away from Facebook messages and mass e-mails so I decided that today would be the day. Life has been pretty crazy over the past year or two and it's about to get a little crazier...
After our year and a half quest to get pregnant, we found out last Friday that Jon has a low sperm count. I think that this news probably would have upset a lot of people, but it actually gave us peace of mind. We now know what we are up against instead of just listening to people tell us that it will happen eventually. :) We spent a lot of time over the weekend thinking about things and decided that we are going to do all that we can to get the show on the road. After looking into my insurance (which I recently switched from Jon's because I would have better coverage in the GR area should I get pregnant...big mistake), I found out that it pays 50% of infertility testing and treatment, but no IVF. Also, I was told by the clinic in GR that IVF typically costs around $10-11,000...ouch. This is a lot of money for anyone to pay, let alone us who are dumping massive amounts of $ into our house to get it finished and are in the process of buying a business. So, we checked into Jon's insurance which is an HMO out of Detroit. It turns out that infertility testing, treatment and IVF are fully covered up to $15,000!! We were extremely excited about this and have scheduled our first appointment for September 12th in Warren. Hopefully all will go smoothly as I dump my insurance and get back on his...keep your fingers crossed for us!
In other news, we are working feverishly to get our house done. Jon will be laying the tile in the master bath today and should be grouting it tomorrow. I plan to finish priming the walls and ceiling and should be painting this weekend. It seems that our plan to move back to Marquette by October 1st won't be happening at this point, but I am optimistic that it won't be too long after that. Also, depending on how things go with our fertility issues, it might be in our best interests financially for Jon to stay down here and work for a bit so that we get it all paid for. I don't know; we'll see how it goes.
Also, for all of the naysayers who think this is crazy of us to be doing all that we are doing, I have only one thing to say and that is that God never gives us more than we can handle. We've tried so long and hard to get pregnant and to get back to Marquette and if it happens at a very inopportune time, then at least I know we will have the love and support of our friends and family to get us through it! :)
Thank you for bearing with me through my first blog post. I hope to have some pictures next week of the bathroom and bedroom to show off our progress!
