Long Journey Ahead

I visited my usual gynae, Dr. Lim yesterday. I have the history of prolonged menses and it had been bugging me for a very long time. To top off that, I do not seem to be ovulating even with the help of medication. Hub had done a sperm analysis perviously, sperm count and all are pretty fine but it seems that his army of sperms are not THAT fast swimmers. The prolonged menses and the motility of hub's sperm was the reason why my gynae recommended us to try IVF.

Dr. Lim was quite glad that we had decided to go for full subsidy for IVF. In fact, he was the one who encouraged us to try IVF via the referral letter from polyclinic then to KKH. He felt that this was the best way to minimize the amount of cash we have to come up with since IVF is going to be a long journey. 

I was lamenting to Dr. Lim about the long waiting time to do this check, that check and finally see the  doctor for the review. I was asking him if it would have been better if we take on the route of a private patient and stick to one doctor. Maybe it will help to cut down the waiting time in between all these. Right now, my second appointment is like 2 months after my first appointment. To be honest, I am kind of impatient to wait for so long. A bit sian leh... 

Dr. Lim said that even if I stick to a specific doctor, that doctor will still be bounded by the appointments of the hospital for all the checks. So he doubt it will be any much faster. The only way to make this faster is to go to a private clinic/hospital. That will however, means that we will definitely need to come up with a lot of cash. Sighhhhh... The dilemmas of life. Money vs. Time. Unfortunately, I have neither. So there is nothing I can do except to continue waiting~ 

我快等到花儿也谢了~ ( Ĭ ^ Ĭ )

Second Blood Test

I received a call from KKH on Monday. They said the doctor had just reviewed the test results and would like me to go back for a second blood test together with my husband. The first thought that came across my mind was "Shit! Something must have went wrong. Otherwise there is no reason why they will ask me to go back for a second blood test." I forgot to ask the lady who called me for a reason of why I am required to do a second blood test.

I called hubs after that and he asked me to call them back and check with them instead of me getting so worried over what or where went wrong. No one picked up the call. It could be because it was already after their office hours by the time I tried to call back.

After having some time to think it through, I suspect it could be the case of the low haemoglobin level. Low haemoglobin level could be due to Thalassemia which is often checked if people are looking at having children. I suspected it was also the reason why hubs need to do a blood test just in case I really have Thalassemia.

We went back to KKH on Saturday for the blood test and I was right about them wanting to check if I have Thalassemia. I was tested negative for Thalassemia previously when I was at the polyclinic. However, I am not sure if I had kept the medical report on it. So I decided to proceed with the test anyway just to have some records. Hubs said he got "poked" all because of me. :P 

The cost of my second blood test and hubs came up to be $69.40 after subsidy.