The good, the bad and the ugly

Here's the latest and not so greatest..... The Good: Dan had the testicular extraction (TESA) yesterday and it went well. I could hear them wheel him into recovery and ask the room, "who in here saw my balls?" So I knew he was fine. The doctor said they got some good ones and they would be frozen until they are ready for ICSI. I don't know why, but anesthesia makes Dan even more inappropriate and immature. He kept grabbing his balls and shaking them up and down as the nurses laughed. He asked the doctor if he'd put the surgery on YouTube so the world could see his junk. The Bad: Upon checkout, the clinic informed me of some out of pocket expenses. They need $1,800 to cover surgery center costs and sperm freezing..I have budgeted everything based on what they told me when I signed all the consent forms. These costs were never discussed and I have maxed out all my credit cards and savings. I started to cry and told them I didn't have it. At the same time, a nurse told me they needed to take blood and do an ultrasound on me since I was already there. The ultrasound showed that I was starting to ovulate. Not good. The Lupron was supposed to be suppressing that. My head started pounding and I started feeling really nauseous. They took a blood sample and blood pressure. It was 188/148. She looked at me with worry and told me to call my Primary Care Doctor to see if she could see me today. The Ugly: My primary care doctor was on vacation. I talked to her nurse and she told me to immediately go to the ER. At the urging of my family, Dan and I headed to Piedmont Hospital. After triage, they were hooking me up to heart monitors and bp monitors....they worried I was going to have a stroke. They gave me a pain pill for the headache, an anti-nausea pill and labetalol to get my bp under control. Then I just laid there until they were ok with sending me home. Once my bp was at 162/102 and Dan was feeling normal, we headed home. The aftermath: I'm on labetalol indefinitely and it's safe for pregnancy. But the fertility doctor wants me to wait yet again to start my protocol once I've rested and gotten my bp under control. So now I wait until my period starts before we can resume. I have no clue when that is because my body is all out of whack. Keep us in our prayers.....we need them now more than ever. Love to all.