Update: Ben’s Urologist Appointment

It went fine, I guess.  I didn’t particularly care for the doctor.  She seemed nice enough and like she know what she was talking about on a broad spectrum, but she does not specialize in infertility.  Of course going into it I expected that. The reason Ben was referred there originally is because of  his bacterial infection, which thank goodness seems to have cleared up with the antibiotics.

So we talked with the doctor about all sorts of issues and discussed different tests that can be done to rule out any blockages or vericocele issues.   She said she wanted him to go to get an ultrasound, which is something I requested, so I was happy about that.  I also asked her to send him for blood work to check his hormone levels, like testosterone to make sure they were all in check. 

The thing that bothered me most about her was that as I was asking questions and talking about stuff with her she kept patting my hand and laughing at me, telling me I was young and that I needed to slow down because she didn’t move that fast and she made me feel bad about my questions.

I guess I know more than some might if they were going to an initial visit at the urologist for IF, but still I didn’t like the way she made me feel bad for my questions.  Since she isn’t an IF specialist if any of Ben’s blood work or his ultrasound come back showing an issue I think we’ll request to move onto a specialist.   

I’m torn between hoping there’s and issue and of course hoping there’s not!  You never want there to be something wrong with a loved one but if he had like wonky testosterone levels and could take some meds to fix it and that would fix his low sperm count, that could be amazing for us…but its unlikely the fix would be that easy, although I want to rule all those items out before we move onto IVF.

::Sigh::

I hope everyone has a good weekend.  I’m sure my husband will be a peach tonight seeing as how he had his ballz groped today and his prostate checked.  I was supposed to go out tonight for drinks with the girls but there is lots of sickness running around so that’s not happening anymore.  I’m sure I’ll get some reading in:)