We Love our Doctor

Wow, it has been a month since I blogged. How did that happen?! We haven't been really busy and I didn't want to bore anyone so I guess that is how that happened! I have been following other blogs though. haha. This past week/week-end we had a little more going on. Lots of birthdays in the month of August. I turned 25, my father-in-law had a birthday, my grandma and a good friend.

This past sunday after church we went to my grandmas to celebrate her b-day. She wanted to cook though....my crazy g-ma. I love her to death though and she sure does have some good cooking skills! After that we went on a little cruise in our BOAT! Well it isn't like a normal boat it is an antique wooden boat that we have been working on. Nothing fancy but Jarod and I both love it! We just love the fact that we have a wooden boat....not to many of those around anymore! It seats 4-6 people and we have been working on it for the past month and are still working on it. We had to sand the entire boat and re-stain it, then build a new back for it and had to find an antique motor. We were so excited to take it out.....it makes all that work worthwhile! I will have to post some before and after pics. It doesn't go very fast but is so relaxing out on the water with it:)

This past monday we had our appintment with the urologist/male infertility specialist in Indy. Going to the appointment we didn't know what to expect. We have been coming out of other doctor's appointments feeling a little down and more confused on what we wanted to do. Well this was the first appointment we left with feelings of HOPE! We both LOVED the doctor and he was so easy talk to and actually made a plan. My kind of doc!!! The doc. is  Dr. Thompson in Indy and I totally recommend him to anyone that is going through infertility! When we found out about Jarod's low sperm count I knew we had to see a urologist to have Jarod checked out and we did but I feel seeing a doctor that has a specialty in male infertility is so important! He did an excellent assessment on Jarod, did more blood work (checked the levels of his hormones) and another semen analysis. When we go to our next appointment we will get the results of the blood work and the doctor wants to do another semen anylysis. Yeah just what Jarod wanted to hear. NOT!! But he is willing to another. I gotta love him for being such a good sport! The doctor wants to do another semen anaylsis b/c Jarod's count was ZERO this time. Okay we had two tests that had 2 million and now zero. So the doctor wants to do another test to compare the semen anaylsis' and then go from there. Maybe if this next one is zero Jarod may a blockage? I don't want to start jumping to conclusions until we get the results of all the tests though!

When we left we felt happy for once leaving a doctor's appointment. Not happy that we are having to go through this but that we actually felt comfortable and a little relieved. No we didn't get much more answered and we may not at the next visit but we feel better that this doctor is trying to rule out everything to figure what may be causing Jarod's count to be low and to help us out. We felt like he really cared and you don't how good that made us feel! I know not all people get answers and we may not either. If we do I pray that we will have hope in having a child!! So until then we are still not bring the subject up as much and enjoying life with it just being Jarod and I. We still talk to family and friends about it but it isn't so much a main topic as it was before between the two of us. Even though at night I still pray that our dreams will come true of having a child of our own!

I also wanted to tell a funny story from the doctors office. I thought it was funny but you may of had to just be there. The doctor was doing an assessment on Jarod and Jarod was already not looking forward to this doc. grabbing his goods. haha. So the doctor did what he had to do and then Jarod "thought" he was done and so did I. Then the doctor says now if you could turn around and bend over the table I am going to have to check your prostate!!!! I didn't know if Jarod knew how they checked that or not.......well the look on his face when he turned around to look at me was priceless.....and he knew how they checked it. hahaha. I couldn't help but bust out laughing when he looked at me like that and the doctor was like I know, I know but I have to do this. I was laughing the entire time and that doc. was proabably thinking a good wife you have. haha. It didn't last long and Jarod hopes to not have that checked for a while!!! I don't blame him!

Also, the doctor answered our question of what we thought was a variocele we felt. Come to find out it is a cyst and nothing to worry about. That is good to know!!  

Hope everyone is having a good week and it is almost FRIDAY and a 3 day week-end for most!!! Picures to come in the next post!