Life in the Fast Lane

We're back.

We spent just a little over 3 hours up at OHSU meeting with various people who would be involved in this IVF process.  We met with our doctor, we talked to the IVF coordinator, and we hung out in the lab downstairs where they took five (FIVE) vials of my blood.  Please note: Adam only had to give two...and his vials made mine look like the Eiffel Tower. 

The only person we did not get to meet with was the financial counselor ($$$) because she was sick.  So, we had to leave without knowing just how much this process is going to cost.  Maybe, since she canceled on us, we'll get a discount.  Yes?  No.

All joking aside, we walked away committed and excited for all that is to come.  Before the meeting with our doctor, we asked God just to use us as a mouthpiece for Him, to mold our words and our actions to reflect who He is and who we are in Him.  We were so grateful for the chance to do that.

We shared exactly what we believe.  We laid it all out on the line.  We talked about how we believe every life is sacred, about how we believe life begins at conception, and how there will be no embryos discarded.  We made it clear there will be no aborted babies under the veil of 'selective reduction'.  We told our doctor we will consider every life we create to be wholly ours, a child waiting for a chance to be born.  We told him we'd never leave one behind (almost felt like a Marine when I dropped that line....sempre fi, do or die!!)

We shared it all.  And when we were done, our doctor just nodded.  He was absolutely respectful of what we had said, and absolutely on board. 

Basically, here's the bottom line that you've all been waiting for:  We are doing this. 

We're also doing this soon.  We had preliminary blood work done today before we left, after we got back into town I swung by my PCP and picked up some test results to fax up to OHSU, and the rest begins...next week.  If all goes according to schedule, the IVF process will be completed right before Thanksgiving, and we'll know if it was successful right around the first week of December.  If it works, we're looking at a baby (babies?) with an August 2011 birthday.  Reading that makes me giddy.  Will you start praying with us now for this process and for that baby?  Will you pray for the doctors and nurses that we come into contact with at OHSU? 

We feel so strongly that God is leading us down this path, that He is opening doors and clearing the way that He would have us walk.  We don't know why this path was chosen for us, but the farther along we go, the more we realize that maybe it's just not about us.  And let me tell you, that's an amazing feeling. 

Start breaking my heart for what breaks Yours
Give me open hands and open doors
Put Your light in my eyes and let me see
That my own little world is not about me